Hochauflösende Kameraeinrichtung optimiert für gepresste und montierte Makroobjekte

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.

Contact persons

Florian Turini

Notes

Problem: fireware extension card 400

Digitalisation station optimized according to the JSTOR Plant Science recommendations.