As you can see there is a lot to cover in full simulation of a camera. There is a good reason why Maxwell is just about the only one to support this. Clearly it could be useful for "production", but not apparently so much that most of the big production renderers like Renderman have bothered implementing it, even with such large development teams as many of them have as compared to Planetside.
We'd certainly like to add support of more real-world camera functions and effect simulation, but it's a demanding area of its own. Direct import of EXIF settings is not likely to be a natively suppported feature for the final release, but it should be fairly easy to create a plugin to support it once the SDK is available. Translating the TG2 settings into camera settings would be the main difficulty - e.g. how would ISO translate into a digital system such as this, without a direct simulation of ISO sensitivities? Adding such is potentially redundant when the same effects can be simulated by simply adjusting exposure, so translating exposure or other settings into ISO equivalent would be the plugin developer's task (and likely one of their main challenges in this case).
- Oshyan
