Cinema 4D / Redshift Interactive Cheat Sheet

Redshift Cameras

Every setting on a Redshift Camera, laid out the way Cinema 4D shows it. Pick a projection from Type, open a tab, and click any setting to see what it does.

Which camera is this?

Redshift Camera object vs. the older camera tag

Cinema 4D gives you two ways to render through a Redshift camera, and they are not the same thing. Redshift Camera (Create › Redshift › Camera) is a camera object in its own right, and it is what this page documents. A Cinema 4D camera with a Redshift Camera tag is the older route: the C4D camera supplies the lens and the tag bolts the Redshift-only parts on top. The tag still renders, and it carries a Convert to Redshift Camera Object button for when you want to move across.

Use the object unless you have a reason not to. The differences that cost you time:

Depth of field is photographic on the object and manual on the tag. The object gives you Aperture (f/#) and a Diaphragm shape, so f/2.8 means what f/2.8 means on a real lens. The tag gives you CoC Radius and Power instead - a blur dial with no photographic meaning, which you cannot match to a reference photo.
Exposure is a different model on each. Object: Exposure Type, Exposure (EV), Sensitivity (ISO), White Point. Tag: Film Speed (ISO), Shutter Time Ratio, f-Stop Number, Whitepoint. The numbers do not transfer.
Effects switch differently. On the object each effect is one dropdown: Off, Render Settings, Override. On the tag it is two separate checkboxes, Override and Enabled - tick one without the other and nothing happens, with no warning.
Only the object has a Display tab - frustum, focus plane and composition overlays drawn in the viewport. Only the tag has an Environment link.
Tone mapping lives somewhere else on each. Object: under Color Correction. Tag: under Exposure.

Click any setting on the left to see what it does. Change Type on the Object tab to switch between Perspective, Fisheye, Spherical, Cylindrical, Stereo Spherical and the parallel views - the panel changes the way it does in C4D.

Plenty of rows start grayed out, because most of this camera sits behind a switch. Bokeh, the Override dropdowns and the Tint checkboxes each wake a block of settings, and a few of them have a second gate behind the first. Click a grayed row and its description says what turns it on.

Looking for something specific? Use the search box. It knows the words you would use, not just C4D's labels - swirly bokeh finds Spherical Aberration, 180 degree shutter finds Shutter Angle.