OAK-D-POE Still Necessary To Set Manual Focus?

AdamPolak

I am updating an old project at at the time OAK-D-POE had issues and so I was directed to:

auto lensPos = deviceCalib->getLensPosition(dai::CameraBoardSocket::RGB);
dai::CameraControl ctrl;
ctrl.setManualFocus(lensPos);
controlQueue->send(ctrl);

Is this no longer necessary? What is best practice?

jakaskerl

Hi AdamPolak
It depends; if your camera is at a fixed position and relatively far from the object I'd set a manual focus so the camera doesn't sporadically lose focus. If you need to detect objects that and relatively close and vary in distance, I would leave the AF on.

Hope this helps,
Jaka

AdamPolak

Thank you it does