Hey Tom,
interesting post.
You hit the nail on the head.
Only point I disagree is the price you spend on 2 yrs RC Basic: it’s 800 (4x99x2). :geek:
But that’s just splitting hairs.
I do think that RC excells on two more important aspects: sky and dark corners.
With photoscan, you have to mask the sky entirely, otherwise you are screwed. With RC - no issue at all. Same is true for dark corners which are almost impossible to avoid with complex geometry (e.g. buildings) if you don’t want to spend weeks for lighting each shot. In Photoscan, this will result in ugly black noise, even if you have the areas covered well lit in enough images. RC has no problem with these parts whatsoever.
In addition to that, I have not noticed any difficulties with changing objects in the set like birds, people or even my backpack and the occasional tip of my shoe… :oops:
Oh, and I absolutely share your big praise for Wishgranter!!!
To be honest, he was the reason why I looked into the software so early on - being one of the most helpful outside members in the agisoft forum.
*BOTH THUMBS UP*
So PS has to tweak a bit more than just the speed-screw… :mrgreen: