Photographer is the most complete Camera and Lighting add-on for Blender 3.x and 4.x, compatible with EEVEE and Cycles (LuxCore is not supported anymore).
It vastly expands your camera and lighting toolset with Physical Camera properties, Bokeh textures, Camera and Lens Post FX, Physical Lights with photometric units, Gobos and IES… It also includes Render Queue manager, Mixer interfaces for Lights, Emissive materials and Worlds.

Photographer 5 exclusive features:

Camera and Lens Effects, adds Lens distortion, Chromatic Aberration, Fringing, Sharpen, Film Grain and more… (works best with Blender 3.5 and its realtime Viewport Compositor)

Light Gobos and IES (Cycles only), add textures to your lights in a couple of clicks to break up that perfect CGI look. A small library of textures is included and will keep growing.

Light Placement Modal, quickly create a Light on the object under the mouse, or create faster character lighting using a target and orbit controls.

Photographer Main Camera, introducing a hierarchy where one camera will define the default settings for the scene.

Improved Light Mixer UI, now more usable with many lights in your scene.

THIS IS THE LATEST UPDATE AS OF 30 october 2025 AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE.

Version 5.7.1 Latest
Added Collection Snapshots to store versions of your scene.
Added Camera Sensor and Resolutions Database from https://physicallybased.info/ (previous sensor size presets are still available in the presets menu).
Added Camera Portal easy creation.
Added Lightgroups graph support with Turbo Tools cachings (please select the Cache node before creating the graph).
Added Add-on Preferences option to run Conversion automatically on file opening without any pop-up warning.
Added Add-on Preferences option to not automatically install bundled presets from Photographer, if you wish to curate your preferred presets.
Added support for Light temperature from Blender 4.5 (not default at the moment because of incorrect Color luminance normalization when using Power unit) in the Add-on Preferences > Light tab.
Fixed potential image file overwrite when using incremental save and a relative render output path.
Fixed hotkeys that were not properly saved in rare cases.