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-JS ----- Forwarded message from [email protected] ----- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:54:58 -0700 From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: choosing a digital camera for collecting landmark data To: [email protected] ----- Forwarded message from al cardini ----- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:40:46 -0400 From: al cardini Reply-To: al cardini Subject: Re: choosing a digital camera for collecting landmark data To: [email protected] Dear Sive, 15 years ago we devised a system using a portable copy-stand, lights (with white fabric panels to soften shadows), and a small table whose position could be adjusted micrometrically to reposition specimens. The table and the camera were also adjusted using a spirit level to check their relative orientation. That was very 'old technology' but probably can give you a few ideas. There might be some more information in Cardini & Tongiorgi, 2003 (publications link in my webpage - in the signature). Other people I know simply used tripods. Fadda et al. (1997) set up a sophisticated way to actually reconstruct 3D landmarks from pictures. This may not be what you want to do and there are probably now more advanced methods for doing it (e.g., there was a paper on this, I believe, in Palaeontologica Electronica). However, their paper has drawings of the set up and quite a bit of information, that could again be helpful. I've attached the paper, as I think it is almost impossible to find. I'm not sure if we're allowed to attach files to MORPHMET messages. If not and it is removed, please drop me an email and I'll send it to you. Good luck. Cheers Andrea On 23 October 2012 07:26, <[email protected]> wrote: > > ----- Forwarded message from Sive Finlay ----- > > Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:17:26 -0400 > From: Sive Finlay > Reply-To: Sive Finlay > Subject: choosing a digital camera for collecting landmark data > To: [email protected] > > Dear all, > > I'm starting a new PhD project studying convergent evolution in Malagasy > tenrecs (Tenrecidae). I want to compare morphological similarities among the > skulls and limbs of tenrecs and convergent species (moles, shrews, hedgehogs > etc.) > I'd be very grateful for advice on which cameras and/or lighting set up > would be suitable for photographing museum specimens for later analysis > using landmark data. > I'll be travelling to different museums so ideally I would like equipment > which is easily portable and can be re-assembled to create consistent > photographing conditions. > > Any tips or advice on which equipment might be suitable would be much > appreciated. > > Thanks > > Sive Finlay > [email protected] > > -- > Sive Finlay > IRC EMBARK Initiative Postgraduate Scholar > > Macroecology and Macroevolution Research Group > Zoology building > School of Natural Sciences > Trinity College Dublin > > [email protected] > http://www.tcd.ie/Zoology/research/ncooper/people.php > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > -- Dr. Andrea Cardini Researcher in Animal Biology Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, l.go S. Eufemia 19, 41121 Modena, Italy Honorary Fellow Functional Morphology and Evolution Unit, Hull York Medical School University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK Adjunct Associate Professor Centre for Forensic Science , The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia E-mail address: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Webpage: http://sites.google.com/site/hymsfme/drandreacardini Datasets: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/cerco_lt_2007/overview.cfm#metadata Editorial board for: Zoomorphology: http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/animal+sciences/journal/435 Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0947-5745&site=1 Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy: http://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/ ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- End forwarded message -----
