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General => Metadata => Topic started by: verger on June 19, 2022, 06:12:00 AM

Title: Whether the camera aperture, shutter time and brightness value in the image are
Post by: verger on June 19, 2022, 06:12:00 AM
When the light is strong, the automatic shutter system selects a lower shutter time and a smaller aperture, but when the UAV takes a large number of photos, the automatic shutter time causes the object's brightness to be inconsistent, which makes photo stitching difficult.
So I wondered if it would be possible to calculate a constant based on the aperture and shutter time of the camera, multiply the constant by the photo, and make all objects appear the same brightness?
Title: Re: Whether the camera aperture, shutter time and brightness value in the image are
Post by: Phil Harvey on June 19, 2022, 06:25:42 AM
ExifTool calculates the LightValue for an image as a Composite tag (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/Composite.html).  LightValue accounts for changing shutter speed, aperture and ISO.  Presumably you could use some image editor like ImageMagick to normalize these values for a series of images by multiplying the image data by the appropriate constant.

- Phil