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Re: Camera did not work for well at the regionals, but worked great at home.

We had alot of difficulty at regionals as well until we discovered that for some reason the camera attribute 'noise filter' in our configuration was set to 0. At home this was not a problem. In Ohio they were gracious enough to let us walk on the field with just our camera and our laptop during lunch to figure out was was going on. Thats when we discovered that we were getting 1 to 2 pixels of tracked image for each of the arena lights. Adding up this noise, we met the tolerance condition of 10 pixels and tracked! Once we bumped up our noise filter to 3 we were good to go. I'd suggest trying it!

-Terry