D457 Autoexposure leading to overexposed frames

• MartyX Grover

  • July 14, 2026 08:22

  Hi Suyash Nigam  The first several frames captured can have incorrect exposure when auto-exposure is enabled because the auto-exposure requires time during those initial frames to settle down.

   

  If you cannot use manual exposure then a way to avoid 'bad' frames at start-up is to skip the first several frames by wrapping the wait_for_frames() instruction within a 'for int' instruction so that the first frame is a frame with good exposure.  The links below have examples of implementing this frame skip in C++ and Python.

   

  C++

  for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
  {
  
  rs2::frameset frames = wait_for_frames();
  
  
  }    

   

  Python

  for _ in range(5):
  pipe.wait_for_frames()
  
  for i in range(num_frames - 5):
  print(i)
  frameset = pipe.wait_for_frames()

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