I then did what you suggested and went back to v1.3 and still weird behavior – but different outcome. It only matched 48/1143 images and all the other photos are missing:
So, I think I will stick at v1.2 for the time-being. Maybe it just has to do with this really old laptop. I tried v1.3 on my wife’s slightly newer laptop which has an Nvidia GTX 1060, and then there were no issues. So not sure why my laptop and the Azure VM produced bad results for the Align task.
Are there any reasons to use v1.3 to get that Version 2 for Meshing? I am happy with the results on v1.2 with Version 1 Meshing. Though I cannot continue to use my wife’s laptop with the 1060, I could install it in on my Linux Workstation which has a 4070 (Windows VM with throughput to the GPU) … if you think the V2 meshing uplift is really worth it.