“How much of your image does the object cover?”
Anywhere from 10% (a thin stick, small tall prop) to 60% (a small stone)
These objects are not big enough to fill frame without depth of field issues. and need to have 100% coverage, hense the flipping.
Typically shooting with a 100mm lens at F.16, the objects are not big enough to use anything wider.
We have never had any issues using Agisoft for this process, alignments come out perfect every time. however we want to use RC but RC just spews out unusable alignments half of the time.
'[XMP workflow]"
Sadly this cannot work as we have to adjust the setup for each object, our asset scale variance is all over the place. and one camera setup will not work for every prop type.
I have tried the draft XMPs in the past, with no success.
A interesting thing that happens quite often is that the DRAFT alignment works fine, a perfect circle of cameras is formed as you would expect. however doing a standard alignment will produce very strange camera positions
Note there is no background detail, the object is masked automatically.
@ShadowTail
This is how we do it for smaller objects,
Typically we have 3 cameras at varying heights, then doing a 120-180 flip. depending on the object. (for instance a stick will have a full 180 flip as you cannot shoot it lying flat)
One thing I have not tried yet is cropping the images so the object is filling 95% of the frame