Depth of Field renders black

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max Issues
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Hi

When I enable DOF in vrayphysicalcam, the render comes out almost black. I’ve tried a lot of things but nothing helps!

Anyone had similar problems?

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Try turning off vignetting and see if your camera target is really close to the camera.

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I’ve tried that. When turning off vignetting it gets bright again, but all fuzzy/blurred…

The target is about 4m away.

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Is there anything weird in your camera render settings over ruling your camera focus? The vignetting was causing the darkening - I did the exact same thing a few years back!

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Nope, I tried changing the camera render settings, but they don’t have an effect. Afterwords I read that according to the manual they don’t override the physical cam…!

Perhaps I should try setting up a normal camera!

Thanks for your help joconnell.

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Well, the normal camera works…!