Transform of disabled camera

Unity Engine
1

I need to do some rendering synchronization with a plugin so I need to disable the camera and call Render() myself.

The problem is that I need to set and get the transform of the camera as well. If I try to access the transform using

Camera.main.transform

then I get this error:

Is this a Unity bug or is it supposed to work like that?

2

The docs say that Camera.main returns the first enabled camera tagged MainCamera. As your camera is disabled, it returns null.

3

Ok, clear.

I suppose the only way to get around this is by not calling Camera.main and using your own game object reference to your camera.