The following suggestions and directions apply to photographs from all types of cameras:
• Obtain your digital images in the highest possible resolution provided by the camera or scanner while taking into consideration the amount of disk space and RAM you have on your machine.
• Do not rotate the digital images in an imaging program (e.g. PhotoShop) and specifically do not rotate some of them without rotating all of them. Do note that some digital camera automatically rotate portrait photos and this feature should be turned off.
• If you rotate all your photographs (for example 90degrees to convert portrait photographs into landscape photographs) you should rotate all the photographs assigned to one Camera the same way and in the same direction. The camera information will need to be rotated also unless the camera calibration was done with similarly rotated photographs. Note that it is easier to import them all landscape and use the Photograph Property dialog and the view rotation setting.
• Make sure you pick the matching camera for all or each of the photographs used by PhotoModeler. I.e. if you are using photographs from an Olympus 300DL camera make sure you assign a camera matching that camera's parameters as the project default or to those particular photographs. If the camera parameters used do not match the actual camera you will get poor results. Camera matching helps solve camera/photo mismatch problems, but this is only possible when using images with EXIF information and a camera with matching information is stored in the Camera Library.
• If you have calibrated a camera with PhotoModeler’s Camera Calibration, the images used in projects and in the calibration should be digitized/captured in exactly the same manner.
• It is a good idea to put all the images for one project in their own separate hard disk directory. The PMR file from PhotoModeler can be stored there also making it easier to keep all the project data together.
Now study the appropriate sections below for directions particular to your camera type.