I replied this on Indian Angiosperm Taxonomy group on yahoo and copying pasting the same thing here....hope this will be taken in good spirits......
With due respects to all the seniors and friends, I just wanted to put up my view, that, there is a difference between 'digital herbarium' and 'digital image'. What you are taking from a digital camera is a digital image because the size of the image is not regulated. The picture that you are taking from a scanner, you fix it at 100% and the size what of the image you get is the actual size of the herbarium sheet. So just need to calibrate, and then you can even take measurements on the picture itself. There are few ideal digital herbaria available on the internet, where the image is attached with a software with which you can take measurements online too. Such facility is lacking in most of the other dig. herb.! When you take multiple shots of the plant concerned from different angles and details and then arrange it in a systematic manner, then it is called an 'illustration' . So for your convenience and for your records you can always have digital images and illustrations, yes offcourse it is convenient! Secondly, when you take a picture through digital camera, it is likely that the image gets distorted on the corners, and you dont get the actualy rectangular image, so you cant take or claim to have taken proper measurements using those images. Regards Dr. Pankaj Kumar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
