Current Configuration

Canon R5 imaging station

This is system produces excellent quality images, utilizing the following products:

Camera: Canon R5 mirrorless (36 x 24 mm full frame sensor with 8192 x 5464 pixels and the pixel size/pitch 4.39um, thus ~45 million pixels or megapixels) on a copystand (distance between table and top of camera viewfinder ~78cm, focus distance ~0.73 m)

Lens: Zeiss Milvus 50mm F/2M

UV Lens: Chiaro 67 mm T99 UV filter (helps to protect the lens)

Computer communication: Pearstone USB 3.2 cable

Memory card: Sandisk XTRM Pro SDXC 64GB Memory card

Lighting: 2x Genaray Spectro LED Essential 500IID Daylight LED Light Panel with diffuser panels, and 1 Neewer 5600K LED mounted above camera to eliminate shadow

Camera power: Indipro Power Supply

Software: EOS (settings: manual focus, 0.8 seconds exposure, F13 aperture, ISO 100, Large image file, picture style Fine Detail, & white balance using custom procedure in Live View shoot). Image dimensions are 5464×8192 pixels, 72 dpi, 24-bit depth, ~15-22MB.

Post-processing: FastStone Image Viewer is used for bulk image rotation, renaming, and compression to ~5-10MB (quality 85, photometric no change, color subsampling disabled, smoothing 0, uncheck Huffman table, uncheck Progressive, check Keep EXIF) for sharing images online. Clone tool is used to remove locality data for sensitive taxa.