LiDAR, Range and Thermal

Tap the dot grid left of the mode switch in Photo (LiDAR iPhones). You get a photo from the main lens (12 MP to start, or the LiDAR photo resolution in Media settings) with its depth map, lens details and gravity saved inside, unfiltered, so gaps in the depth stay gaps instead of being guessed. Open it later to measure (Measure on LiDAR Photos and Video).

Depth reaches about 5 m. Very far, wet or black surfaces may have none: the range ring turns red. In LiDAR photo, flash, macro and True Color are hidden. Turn Thermal on as well for a ThermDAR photo.

In the line camera every photo is a LiDAR photo, taken from the survey's own camera. Low-confidence depth is saved as no data, so a measure there is refused. If depth hasn't arrived yet you'll see "No depth yet, try again".

A ring in the middle of the picture with the distance to whatever it sits on: white in range, red past about 5 m or where the LiDAR has no reading. It shows in LiDAR photo and LiDAR video (the scope button turns it off and on, and it remembers) and always in Range and Splay.

Range (the scope button left of the switch) turns the camera into a rangefinder: aim the ring and press the shutter or volume up. Each reading keeps the distance and the angle up or down; while a survey line is tracking, the bearing too. LiDAR readings also keep a photo of what the ring was on. LiDAR reads from 5 cm to 5 m. Save N writes the readings to one note; leaving Range or closing the camera saves any you haven't. More in Rangefinder and Laser Meter.

Splay opens from Splay in the Drop Station menu and adds each shot to that station as a wall shot (Splays and LRUD). It needs the survey line tracking. With a paired laser meter, the meter gives the distance.

With a FLIR camera set up, Thermal sits at the right end of the row, with palette, surface, the FLIR's battery and Layers at the top. Photos are FLIR's radiometric JPEG, with every pixel's temperature, plus the FLIR's visual photo on the same tile; the copy in Photos is left exactly as FLIR wrote it. Video saves the clip plus temperature frames. With LiDAR on too, shots are ThermDAR: a ring around the crosshair shows the temperature above and the distance below. Range hides while Thermal is on. More in Thermal Camera.