D405 Focus and Depth of Field vs D430?
What are the lengths that the D405 RGB camera can resolve clearly vs the D430? I have a D430 and lengths of around 120mm it appears pretty blurry in the RGB but still usable though not ideal. Eg for a checkerboard corner how sharp is the image? The D405 is supposed to be usable at 7cm-50cm but what distance has the sharpest focus?
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Hi Henry, my understanding is that the smaller baseline of the D405 is part of what allows the image to remain in focus down to 7 cm without blurring. The larger baseline of the D430 could cause the image to blur at the same distance, even if you used a disparity shift to reduce the D430's minimum depth sensing distance from its default 0.1 meters / 10 cm down to 7 cm.
The D430 does not have an RGB sensor though and also does not support streaming of color from its infrared sensor. Can you confirm that you have a D430 please and not a D435 (which does have an RGB sensor).
If you had a RealSense camera with an RGB sensor such as D435 then you could sharpen a blurry RGB image by maximizing the value of the RealSense SDK's Sharpness RGB option to '100', as demonstrated in the link below with the barcode on a drink bottle.
https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/7187#issuecomment-690248295
I tested the D405 with another drink bottle at various distances without altering the default Sharpness value of '50'. At the minimum 7 cm distance from the barcode the RGB image clarity is excellent.

I then moved the camera furter away and captured at 15 cm intervals up unti 45 cm. This should provide an indication of how a checkerboard image may be rendered at various distances at default Sharpness.
At 15 cm:

At 30 cm:

At 45 cm:

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