Camera issues after 1.7.00 update

@Bjornotto LightBurn will work with most cameras and autoselects the highest resolution, I’ve tested from 320x240 to 8K, there are no hard limits. (though very large and small cameras have their own special issues)

Can you post a screenshot of what you mean? Are you are saying that the camera name tooltip info shows two sets of resolutions, like this?

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@jimmsch when you say “off by 10mm” is that consistent across the workspace?

Can you describe how you’re doing the alignment process, and perhaps take some screenshots? You’re burning the pattern fresh to a sheet of paper and then immediately aligning without moving it?

You might try changing the size of the pattern to see if that affects it your result… (maybe your camera distortion is worse around the edges who knows) I find a 100% size pattern on a single sheet of paper is good enough for a sanity check. You can then put a 180x180mm square in the center of the workspace and it should align with the corners of the pattern.

The corners should match exactly, because those were our reference points. If they don’t the alignment is wrong somehow. (do you have some X/Y-shift and forgot?) If the corners match but things are off elsewhere, the calibration is suspect.


It automatically sets mine to 1080p which mine will not display, i cant calibrate as there is no image to show

thanks for the reply. I have found the adjustments in the camera window. I never needed to touch these before. My camera worked great just doing alignments and calibrations. I got it to within reason using the offsets in the camera window

thank you. I will try this now :smiley:

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My thought up upgrades is unless there is some reason to upgrade like you must have new features i don’t do it. Every piece of software has bugs. Typically when you do an upgrade you get fixes for old bugs and get a whole set of new bugs. So unless i really, really, must upgrade i don’t do it. So if your upgrading just for the sake of having the latest version don’t do it. Just my preference. Saves me a lot of frustration. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. :slight_smile:

Yes this is what i do normally but i wanted the scissor function, still no fixes and still no replys for the help with the fix

This is the cause of the problem, lightburn selects the highest available dpi for that camera which is not correct,
On windows camera mine allows me to select 1080p which will just show a black screen
I have to select 720p to use it,

Lightburn is selecting 1080p for mine and i need to change it to 720p, the software needs to have a camera dpi select dropdown box so we can manualy change the resolution

You need to remove auto select and have manual select for resolution,

Also having camera issues, for me the problem is like the camera is zoomed right in, it now only shows a small portion of the bed not the full thing. Tried realigning but the camera is off from the cuts by about 5mm to the left, image seems squewed, will that be a recalibration?

Upgrading to 1.7.0.0 increased the zoom-level of the camera on my Roly XW (no distortion, but the image on the overlay is simply zoomed in more than it should be), re-importing the known-good camera settings didn’t help. I rolled back to 1.6.0.3 and it’s back to normal.

I lost the ability to overlay in the lightburn workspace. Upgraded to 1.7 and went to try and recalibrate the camera and now I’m not even getting the camera appearing in the dropdown menu. Have tried a couple of restarts but no joy yet

I also have a camera that works in 1.6.03 but wont seem to capture any image in 1.7

New 1.7.01 update still has all the same camera isues and still will only show black screen

Unfortunately we still have the same isues witht the 1.7.01 update, still black screen on camera,
what the isue is my camera has and will allow you to select 1080p but it doesnt actually have the capability to display it, so lightburn automatically selects 1080p so i cant use it,
What it need is how lightburn used to be and be able to manually select resolution inside the lightburn software. So i can change it to 720p

Hello,

I am using a Logitech Brio 4K camera with LightBurn on a Windows 10 system and am experiencing a significant drop in image quality. Despite the camera supporting high resolution and performing excellently in other applications, the image quality in LightBurn is noticeably poor.

Here are the steps I have taken to try and resolve the issue:

Updated LightBurn to the latest version.
Configured the camera to its maximum resolution using external applications (Logitech G HUB and Logitech Capture) before launching LightBurn.
Checked the image quality in other programs, such as OBS Studio and VLC Media Player, where the quality was excellent.
Updated and reinstalled the camera drivers.
Set the camera to its highest resolution in Windows settings.

Unfortunately, none of these steps have improved the image quality in LightBurn. I have not found an option within LightBurn to change the camera resolution settings.

Additionally, I am using a MOPA M7 laser, which may be relevant to the issue.

I would greatly appreciate any assistance in resolving this issue. If anyone has encountered a similar problem and found a solution, I would be grateful for your advice.

Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who reported problems, 1.7.01 is now out. We no longer auto-assign old calibrations, but we can’t automatically fix the ones that were badly assigned. If you were affected you’ll need to run a ‘manual fix’:

Check if the resolution assigned to the calibration does NOT match the camera resolution, which looks like this: (hover over the camera name and check for two sets of numbers)
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If so, start the Camera Lens Calibration process but choose the “Current Calibration - reset resolution” option:

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So long as you have chosen wisely, that should fix everything up.

If you choose the wrong camera then the overlay will get distorted in a new way, but you can keep trying until you find the right answer. The option only appears if there is already a mismatch.

You may optionally upgrade old calibrations the same way, otherwise they will remain “unknown resolution” and won’t benefit from new features, but will continue to work as they always did.

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@Bjornotto we may be adding the ability to select the camera resolution in future versions, but it’s a big task. The work we’re doing now on adding resolution information to the calibrations is to support that possibility. There are many steps to go and some are going to be bumpy.

Can you tell me which model of camera you’re using? We try to cater for as wide a range of hardware as we can, but we also have to make some assumptions, just to reduce complexity for the vast majority of users.

@Igorrusssu You may want to try changing from the “Custom Capture System” to the “Default Capture System” in the Camera Settings. We have recently noticed that the Custom Capture System (which uses the Windows Media Framework APIs) seems to be over-filtered and blurry when used on very high-resolution cameras. Not sure why yet. Possibly a Microsoft thing.

The Default System has other drawbacks (no exposure/brightness controls) but will at least help you diagnose if that’s what is going on.

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We just re-wrote the MacOS camera drivers, it’s probably time to do the same for Windows.