This is key to measure the exact distance to the objects or subjects in a shot.
Especially for vfx tasks in visual effects like reconstructing the real camera of an image or video sequence via match moving techniques it is relevant to check the calculation or make sure the distances are correct.:
- reconstructing real world cameras of an image or a video via match moving techniques to check the calculation of the solver or make sure the distances are correct
- shooting panoramas or simply extend images to make sure nodal point is correct so that objects are always captured with the same size
Further scenarios:
- building a camera rig with more than one camera to make sure you can easily stitch the images
- building a camera microscope to calculate the required lens to get the desired magnification