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== Workstation with high resolution camera for digitalisation of herbarium sheets ==
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=== 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 [https://plants.jstor.org/ JSTOR Global Plants] with online documents under [http://about.jstor.org/node/349860 JSTOR Plant Science: Global Plant Help & Support], [http://about.jstor.org/sites/default/files/misc/plants_hndbk_eng_2011.pdf JSTOR Plant Science Handbook] and Appendices (documents no longer available, status 2018).

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE7aMYHMHMk JSTOR Global Plants Overview - Video 2016]

Size of the tif images: 200-250 TB