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BirdDog started following the idea "Speed up synth with nVidia or ATI GPU!" in Microsoft Live Labs.

BirdDog replied on September 10, 2008 05:02 to the discussion "Details of Photosynth Update, September 8" in Microsoft Live Labs:

It's great to see your already issuing updates to Photosynth. Now I see it's gone to version 2.0.1403.14. And great to hear "The team is already hard at work on the next update! "

Any chance you could throw in some more camera support in the next update?
http://getsatisfaction.com/livelabs/t...

A comment on the question "What cameras are supported? Could not find ccd width for..." in Microsoft Live Labs:

Sounds great... – BirdDog, on September 03, 2008 17:15

A comment on the question "Can the Synth be GeoTagged?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

That fixed it! Thanks. – BirdDog, on September 01, 2008 04:07

BirdDog marked one of Aryx's replies in Microsoft Live Labs as useful. Aryx replied to the question "Can the Synth be GeoTagged?".

BirdDog started following the problem "Comma in Synth title prevents mapping." in Microsoft Live Labs.

BirdDog asked a question in Microsoft Live Labs on August 31, 2008 09:21:

What cameras are supported? Could not find ccd width for...

In the log file I am getting lots of the following:
VtApp: Could not find ccd width for 'E-510 '
VtApp: Unable to get focal plane x resolution
VtApp: Unable to get focal plane y resolution
VtApp: Unable to get focal plane resolution unit
VtApp: CCD width is outside acceptable interval

Using an Olympus E-510.

BirdDog replied on August 31, 2008 08:42 to the idea "Pointcloud exporter!" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Is the point cloud in the collection.synth.bin file?
If so, can anyone get it out?

A comment on the idea "Pointcloud exporter!" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Ok, figgured out Wireshark, Python, and Processing. Not so tricky. Thou, I haven't found many points yet. Any ideas for getting all the points from a whole synth? – BirdDog, on August 30, 2008 19:50

BirdDog replied on August 30, 2008 07:31 to the idea "Pointcloud exporter!" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Can someone give a quick Wireshark "for idiots" guide to getting hold of the bin file?
Wouldn't mind a python "for idiots" either.!

BirdDog started following the question "3D export in various formats" in Microsoft Live Labs.

BirdDog started following the idea "Pointcloud exporter!" in Microsoft Live Labs.

BirdDog replied on August 29, 2008 17:19 to the question "Can the Synth be GeoTagged?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

It is odd as my symths seem fine but the globe control to geotag to Virtual Earth, just doesent function for 6 of my 7 synths. Screen dump: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3060/2...
Photosynth logo on the left, but no "save / cancel option". There arn't many controls on the photosynth page, so I'd have kind have expected it to work....

BirdDog replied on August 27, 2008 19:20 to the question "Can the Synth be GeoTagged?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

I know the theory, and yes I have seen the choice appear in the middle / bottom of the screen, but most times it just doesent appear!The Photosynth logo appears on the left, but not the choice....
If not copywrite, does it only work in certain locations, or with small synths?

BirdDog replied on August 27, 2008 18:24 to the question "Maximum number of images?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Just managed 500 images x 10 MP on a P4 2.6 Ghz with 1 GB RAM. Had previously run out of memory trying for 1300 images. Mind you, the 500 took about 7 hours I think. http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=4...

A comment on the question "Can the Synth be GeoTagged?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Do we have to use one of the "Creative Commons" in particular?
There just doesent (usualy) appear any Photosynth choice in Virtual Earth. – BirdDog, on August 27, 2008 18:10

BirdDog replied on August 27, 2008 18:08 to the question "Can the Synth be GeoTagged?" in Microsoft Live Labs:

Sometimes it's ther and most times it's not. I thought it was a copywrite thing that prevented it, but no joy. This is disapointing. Can someone give clear instructions as to how to do this?

BirdDog started following the idea "Local synthing program" in Microsoft Live Labs.

BirdDog started following the idea "Any plans to use camera RAW files?" in Microsoft Live Labs.

BirdDog asked a question in Microsoft Live Labs on August 26, 2008 17:14:

Why do so many new programs need so much memmory?

In the good ol' days, we could run a batch command, that did one thing at a time, and never crashed due to lack of memmory. In the last few years this all seems to have changed, many programms just give up if they run out of RAM. What happened to the simplicity of a batch command that just kept on going? Sorry to bring this up here, but photosynth is one of many programs that suffers from this.