Photos That Don't Align - Helpful Trick

[HMArnold]

I was having problems with some sections of photos not aligning in a group, but they would if taken separately.

I went through the whole chunks method and had a lot of trouble getting the chunks to align properly at the end.

After not getting any responses on the forum, I asked the support email folks

They told me that if you uncheck all the photos that aligned properly, then check all the ones that didn't, and run "Align Photos" again, it doesn't erase what you had before, it just tries again to align those same photos with the existing group.

It worked great for me and I have used it several times now

No idea how you would know where to find that in a manual

[Alexey Pasumansky]

Hello HMArnold,

Maybe you mean Align Selected Cameras and not Align Photos? Because the latter operation discards all the previous information, whereas Align Selected uses the existing matching points and tries to align the selected cameras with the already aligned subset.

In manual it is mentioned on the page 12 (Align Photos section) and the procedure is named Re-aligning of the subsets of photos:
http://www.agisoft.com/pdf/photoscan-pro_1_2_en.pdf

[HMArnold]

Yes

Align Selected Cameras

Works great

[bisenberger]

Thanks for posting HMArnold and Alexey.
I'm not clear on the difference between checking and unchecking and selecting.

Does this image show the correct method ?