Hi Katrina, We recently faced the same dilemma and were wondering what was the difference between models with 5 versus 6 degrees of freedom.
You are right, the model with 6 degrees of freedom allows a scanner to be attached to it. The 6th degree of freedom does not allow any particular extra range of motion to the microscribe according to the manufacturer. So, if you are only interested in digitising, I would go for the model with 5 degrees of freedom. The model with 5 degrees of freedom is sufficient for landmarking and this is the one we bought. I hope this helps. Yoland Savriama, PhD Postdoctoral researcher P/O Jernvall Institute of Biotechnology P.O. Box 56 (Viikinkaari 9) FIN-00014 FINLAND Le jeudi 17 septembre 2015 00:05:49 UTC+3, katrina.jones30 a écrit : > > Dear Morphometricians, > > Does anyone have opinions on Microscribe digitizers with 5 versus 6 > degrees of freedom? > > We are getting a digitizer for the lab, and noticed that some styles have > additional rotation of the stylus (6th degree of motion). Is this a useful > feature? There seem to be attachable surface scanners (Kreon, skiron) which > you can add to these models - does anybody have experience with those? It > would be nice to know if it is worth having the option to add this later. > > Thanks for your advice! > > Katrina Jones > Post-doctoral Researcher, > Museum of Comparative Zoology, > Harvard University. > -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
