diff --git a/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/Cargo.toml b/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/Cargo.toml
index 978cb1e5666..d2394e6ebb7 100644
--- a/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/Cargo.toml
+++ b/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ cu29-clock = { path = "../../../core/cu29_clock", version = "1.1.0-dev", default
 cu29 = { path = "../../../core/cu29", version = "1.1.0-dev", default-features = false, features = [
   "units",
 ] }
+libm = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }
 rerun = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 image = { workspace = true, default-features = false, optional = true }
 kornia-image = { version = "0.1.10", optional = true }
diff --git a/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/README.md b/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/README.md
index ae996ae1734..beb0589956f 100644
--- a/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/README.md
+++ b/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,26 @@
 Standardized sensor payload definitions for Copper.
 
 The crate contains common payload types used by Copper sources, tasks, and
-sinks, including image and point-cloud related data structures.
+sinks, including image, depth-map, camera-calibration, and point-cloud data
+structures.
+
+## Dynamic camera calibration
+
+`CuCameraModel<D>` provides a fixed-size, allocation-free camera model containing
+pinhole intrinsics and a compile-time distortion type. A robot chooses `D` when
+it is built—for example, `CuPlumbBobDistortion` or
+`CuEquidistantDistortion`—so a running camera cannot silently change its
+mathematical model. The intrinsics and coefficients may still be updated by a
+dynamic-calibration task.
+
+The model is intentionally separate from `CuImage` and `CuDepthMap`: a source
+can expose it on a dedicated output as `CuCameraModelUpdate<D>` and send
+`Set(model)` only when calibration first becomes available or changes. Later
+cycles carry `NoChange`, while each consumer keeps a `CuCameraModelState<D>`
+cache.
+
+This keeps the per-frame payload small without hiding calibration changes from
+Copper's unified log and deterministic replay.
 
 ## Features
 
@@ -12,4 +31,3 @@ sinks, including image and point-cloud related data structures.
 - `image`
 - `kornia`
 - `rerun`
-
diff --git a/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/src/camera.rs b/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/src/camera.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a797b713e04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/src/camera.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,344 @@
+use bincode::{Decode, Encode};
+use core::fmt;
+use cu29::prelude::*;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+/// Errors found while validating a camera model.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum CuCameraModelError {
+    ZeroImageDimension,
+    NonFiniteIntrinsic,
+    NonPositiveFocalLength,
+    NonFiniteDistortionCoefficient { index: usize },
+}
+
+impl fmt::Display for CuCameraModelError {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        match self {
+            Self::ZeroImageDimension => write!(f, "camera image dimensions must be non-zero"),
+            Self::NonFiniteIntrinsic => write!(f, "camera intrinsics must be finite"),
+            Self::NonPositiveFocalLength => {
+                write!(f, "camera focal lengths must be positive")
+            }
+            Self::NonFiniteDistortionCoefficient { index } => {
+                write!(f, "camera distortion coefficient {index} is not finite")
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl core::error::Error for CuCameraModelError {}
+
+/// Pinhole camera intrinsics in pixel units.
+///
+/// Pixel centers use the conventional integer coordinate system. Image bounds
+/// therefore run from `-0.5` to `width - 0.5` horizontally and from `-0.5` to
+/// `height - 0.5` vertically. Keeping this convention explicit avoids the
+/// half-pixel field-of-view errors that otherwise appear when consumers use a
+/// different interpretation of `cx` and `cy`. A principal point outside those
+/// bounds is allowed because cropped sensors can legitimately place the optical
+/// axis outside the delivered image.
+#[derive(
+    Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize, Encode, Decode, Reflect,
+)]
+pub struct CuCameraIntrinsics {
+    pub width: u32,
+    pub height: u32,
+    pub fx: f32,
+    pub fy: f32,
+    pub cx: f32,
+    pub cy: f32,
+    pub skew: f32,
+}
+
+impl CuCameraIntrinsics {
+    pub fn new(
+        width: u32,
+        height: u32,
+        fx: f32,
+        fy: f32,
+        cx: f32,
+        cy: f32,
+        skew: f32,
+    ) -> Result<Self, CuCameraModelError> {
+        let intrinsics = Self {
+            width,
+            height,
+            fx,
+            fy,
+            cx,
+            cy,
+            skew,
+        };
+        intrinsics.validate()?;
+        Ok(intrinsics)
+    }
+
+    pub fn validate(&self) -> Result<(), CuCameraModelError> {
+        if self.width == 0 || self.height == 0 {
+            return Err(CuCameraModelError::ZeroImageDimension);
+        }
+        if ![self.fx, self.fy, self.cx, self.cy, self.skew]
+            .iter()
+            .all(|value| value.is_finite())
+        {
+            return Err(CuCameraModelError::NonFiniteIntrinsic);
+        }
+        if self.fx <= 0.0 || self.fy <= 0.0 {
+            return Err(CuCameraModelError::NonPositiveFocalLength);
+        }
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Horizontal field of view in radians, measured between the outer pixel edges.
+    pub fn horizontal_fov_rad(&self) -> Result<f32, CuCameraModelError> {
+        self.validate()?;
+        let left_extent = self.cx + 0.5;
+        let right_extent = self.width as f32 - 0.5 - self.cx;
+        Ok(libm::atanf(left_extent / self.fx) + libm::atanf(right_extent / self.fx))
+    }
+
+    /// Vertical field of view in radians, measured between the outer pixel edges.
+    pub fn vertical_fov_rad(&self) -> Result<f32, CuCameraModelError> {
+        self.validate()?;
+        let top_extent = self.cy + 0.5;
+        let bottom_extent = self.height as f32 - 0.5 - self.cy;
+        Ok(libm::atanf(top_extent / self.fy) + libm::atanf(bottom_extent / self.fy))
+    }
+
+    /// Convert a rectified pixel coordinate into an unnormalized camera-frame ray.
+    ///
+    /// The result is `[x, y, 1]`. Lens distortion is intentionally not applied;
+    /// callers should rectify the pixel according to the model's distortion type first.
+    pub fn rectified_pixel_ray(&self, pixel: [f32; 2]) -> Result<[f32; 3], CuCameraModelError> {
+        self.validate()?;
+        let y = (pixel[1] - self.cy) / self.fy;
+        let x = (pixel[0] - self.cx - self.skew * y) / self.fx;
+        Ok([x, y, 1.0])
+    }
+}
+
+/// Compile-time lens-distortion model for a camera.
+///
+/// The concrete distortion type is part of [`CuCameraModel`]'s Rust type. A
+/// running robot may update the coefficients of its chosen calibration model,
+/// but it cannot silently switch from (for example) `plumb_bob` to `equidistant`.
+pub trait CuCameraDistortion {
+    fn coefficients(&self) -> &[f32];
+
+    fn validate(&self) -> Result<(), CuCameraModelError> {
+        for (index, coefficient) in self.coefficients().iter().enumerate() {
+            if !coefficient.is_finite() {
+                return Err(CuCameraModelError::NonFiniteDistortionCoefficient { index });
+            }
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+/// Camera without a lens-distortion correction model.
+#[derive(
+    Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize, Encode, Decode, Reflect,
+)]
+pub struct CuNoDistortion;
+
+impl CuCameraDistortion for CuNoDistortion {
+    fn coefficients(&self) -> &[f32] {
+        &[]
+    }
+}
+
+macro_rules! define_camera_distortion {
+    ($(#[$meta:meta])* $name:ident, $coefficient_count:literal) => {
+        $(#[$meta])*
+        ///
+        /// The coefficient count is encoded in the constructor's array type, so
+        /// an invalid count is rejected by the Rust compiler rather than at runtime.
+        #[derive(
+            Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize, Encode, Decode, Reflect,
+        )]
+        pub struct $name {
+            coefficients: [f32; $coefficient_count],
+        }
+
+        impl $name {
+            pub fn new(
+                coefficients: [f32; $coefficient_count],
+            ) -> Result<Self, CuCameraModelError> {
+                let distortion = Self { coefficients };
+                distortion.validate()?;
+                Ok(distortion)
+            }
+
+            pub const fn coefficients(&self) -> &[f32; $coefficient_count] {
+                &self.coefficients
+            }
+        }
+
+        impl CuCameraDistortion for $name {
+            fn coefficients(&self) -> &[f32] {
+                &self.coefficients
+            }
+        }
+    };
+}
+
+define_camera_distortion!(
+    /// Brown-Conrady / ROS `plumb_bob`: `[k1, k2, t1, t2, k3]`.
+    ///
+    /// ```compile_fail
+    /// use cu_sensor_payloads::CuPlumbBobDistortion;
+    /// let _ = CuPlumbBobDistortion::new([0.0; 4]);
+    /// ```
+    CuPlumbBobDistortion,
+    5
+);
+
+define_camera_distortion!(
+    /// OpenCV rational polynomial: `[k1, k2, t1, t2, k3, k4, k5, k6]`.
+    CuRationalPolynomialDistortion,
+    8
+);
+
+define_camera_distortion!(
+    /// OpenCV fisheye / ROS `equidistant`: `[k1, k2, k3, k4]`.
+    CuEquidistantDistortion,
+    4
+);
+
+/// Standard camera geometry shared by image and depth-map producers.
+///
+/// `D` fixes the distortion model at compile time. A source performing dynamic
+/// calibration should publish this as [`CuCameraModelUpdate::Set`] when its
+/// intrinsics or coefficients first become available or change, then publish
+/// `NoChange` on later cycles. Consumers keep a [`CuCameraModelState`] cache.
+/// This transmits the full calibration only on state transitions while keeping
+/// every change in Copper's deterministic log and replay stream.
+#[derive(
+    Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize, Encode, Decode, Reflect,
+)]
+pub struct CuCameraModel<D = CuNoDistortion> {
+    pub intrinsics: CuCameraIntrinsics,
+    pub distortion: D,
+}
+
+impl<D> CuCameraModel<D>
+where
+    D: CuCameraDistortion,
+{
+    pub fn new(intrinsics: CuCameraIntrinsics, distortion: D) -> Result<Self, CuCameraModelError> {
+        let model = Self {
+            intrinsics,
+            distortion,
+        };
+        model.validate()?;
+        Ok(model)
+    }
+
+    pub fn validate(&self) -> Result<(), CuCameraModelError> {
+        self.intrinsics.validate()?;
+        self.distortion.validate()
+    }
+}
+
+/// Producer-side dynamic calibration update carried on a dedicated Copper output.
+pub type CuCameraModelUpdate<D = CuNoDistortion> = CuLatchedStateUpdate<CuCameraModel<D>>;
+
+/// Consumer-side cache for the latest dynamic calibration.
+pub type CuCameraModelState<D = CuNoDistortion> = CuLatchedState<CuCameraModel<D>>;
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+    use bincode::config;
+    use core::f32::consts::FRAC_PI_2;
+
+    fn centered_intrinsics() -> CuCameraIntrinsics {
+        CuCameraIntrinsics::new(640, 480, 320.0, 240.0, 319.5, 239.5, 0.0).unwrap()
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn centered_intrinsics_compute_ninety_degree_fov() {
+        let intrinsics = centered_intrinsics();
+        assert!((intrinsics.horizontal_fov_rad().unwrap() - FRAC_PI_2).abs() < 1.0e-6);
+        assert!((intrinsics.vertical_fov_rad().unwrap() - FRAC_PI_2).abs() < 1.0e-6);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn rectified_pixel_ray_accounts_for_skew() {
+        let intrinsics =
+            CuCameraIntrinsics::new(640, 480, 400.0, 200.0, 300.0, 200.0, 10.0).unwrap();
+        let ray = intrinsics.rectified_pixel_ray([412.0, 240.0]).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(ray, [0.275, 0.2, 1.0]);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn invalid_intrinsics_are_rejected() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            CuCameraIntrinsics::new(640, 480, 0.0, 240.0, 319.5, 239.5, 0.0),
+            Err(CuCameraModelError::NonPositiveFocalLength)
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            CuCameraIntrinsics::new(640, 480, 320.0, 240.0, f32::NAN, 239.5, 0.0),
+            Err(CuCameraModelError::NonFiniteIntrinsic)
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn cropped_camera_may_have_principal_point_outside_image() {
+        let intrinsics = CuCameraIntrinsics::new(640, 480, 320.0, 240.0, -0.5, 239.5, 0.0).unwrap();
+        let expected = libm::atanf(2.0);
+        assert!((intrinsics.horizontal_fov_rad().unwrap() - expected).abs() < 1.0e-6);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn distortion_models_have_compile_time_coefficient_counts() {
+        let plumb_bob = CuPlumbBobDistortion::new([0.1, -0.02, 0.001, -0.001, 0.0]).unwrap();
+        let rational = CuRationalPolynomialDistortion::new([0.0; 8]).unwrap();
+        let equidistant = CuEquidistantDistortion::new([0.0; 4]).unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(plumb_bob.coefficients().len(), 5);
+        assert_eq!(rational.coefficients().len(), 8);
+        assert_eq!(equidistant.coefficients().len(), 4);
+        assert_eq!(
+            CuEquidistantDistortion::new([0.0, f32::NAN, 0.0, 0.0]),
+            Err(CuCameraModelError::NonFiniteDistortionCoefficient { index: 1 })
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn camera_model_round_trips_through_bincode() {
+        let model = CuCameraModel::new(centered_intrinsics(), CuNoDistortion).unwrap();
+        let cfg = config::standard();
+        let mut buffer = [0_u8; 256];
+        let len = bincode::encode_into_slice(model, &mut buffer, cfg).unwrap();
+        let (decoded, used) =
+            bincode::decode_from_slice::<CuCameraModel<CuNoDistortion>, _>(&buffer[..len], cfg)
+                .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(used, len);
+        assert_eq!(decoded, model);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn latched_updates_send_full_model_only_on_change() {
+        let model = CuCameraModel::new(
+            centered_intrinsics(),
+            CuPlumbBobDistortion::new([0.1, -0.02, 0.001, -0.001, 0.0]).unwrap(),
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        let cfg = config::standard();
+        let set = bincode::encode_to_vec(CuCameraModelUpdate::Set(model), cfg).unwrap();
+        let no_change =
+            bincode::encode_to_vec(CuCameraModelUpdate::<CuPlumbBobDistortion>::NoChange, cfg)
+                .unwrap();
+        assert!(no_change.len() < set.len());
+
+        let mut state = CuCameraModelState::default();
+        state.update_owned(CuCameraModelUpdate::Set(model));
+        state.update_owned(CuCameraModelUpdate::NoChange);
+        assert_eq!(state.get(), Some(&model));
+        state.update_owned(CuCameraModelUpdate::Clear);
+        assert!(state.is_unset());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/src/lib.rs b/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/src/lib.rs
index fdc646ea79f..53bb0fbf5a9 100644
--- a/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/src/lib.rs
+++ b/components/payloads/cu_sensor_payloads/src/lib.rs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 extern crate alloc;
 
 mod barometer;
+mod camera;
 #[cfg(feature = "std")]
 mod depth;
 #[cfg(feature = "std")]
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ mod ranging;
 mod rerun_components;
 
 pub use barometer::*;
+pub use camera::*;
 #[cfg(feature = "std")]
 pub use depth::*;
 #[cfg(feature = "std")]