Hochauflösende Kameraeinrichtung optimiert für gepresste und montierte Makroobjekte
Contents
Workstation with high resolution camera for digitalisation of herbarium sheets
Camera Hardware
LEAF Aptus-II 12R 80 Megapixel digital back, Linhof Techno camera, Schneider Electronic Shutter with Shutter Control ES unit
Lighting
Elinchrom BX 500 Ri flash with Elinchrom Rotalux 26178 diffusor, styrofoam reflector plate
Digitization workstation - computer hardware and software
Quad-core IBM-PC running 64 Bit Windows 7, 8 GB RAM, high-end graphics card, firewire 800 extension card, barcode scanner. CaptureOne software for image processing.
Digitizing server infrastructure
Storage server for images, image web publication server, web server, database server.
Digitizing workflow
- Specimen is placed on reproduction table along with color checker and scale bar.
- Barcode scan.
- Placement of styrofoam reflector plate.
- Capturing.
- Image is cropped and then by click automatically processed to a TIF located on the image server using predefined processing recipies.
- The whole procedure takes between 1 and 2 minutes, the average is at least 1,5 minutes.
Contact persons
Florian Turini (until mid 2014), Dr. Hans-Joachim Esser
Notes
Problem: Firewire connectivity issues.
Digitization station optimized following the recommendations of JSTOR Global Plants with online documents under JSTOR Plant Science: Global Plant Help & Support, JSTOR Plant Science Handbook and Appendices (documents no longer available, status 2018).
JSTOR Global Plants Overview - Video 2016
Size of the tif images: 200-250 TB
