Need help with Camera selection please

[Rick (Technical Evangelist)]

Welcome Kevin,

We have been asked this a time or two.

What is the best camera lens to choose for my bed size?

To answer this question requires one additional piece of information: The height above the bed that you plan to mount the camera. LightBurn now has a helper that will do the ugly math for you. Go to Help > Camera Selection Help and the software will use the current workspace size by default, and show you the minimum mounting heights for all the cameras we sell: [image] This number is the absolute minimum required for the camera to see the whole working area. You will need to allow a little …

We also have a write-up in our new, in-progress documentation in the ‘Using a camera with LightBurn’ section: Redirecting...