choosing a digital camera for collecting landmark data

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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: morphmet@morphometrics.org

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

sfin...@tcd.ie

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Sive Finlay
IRC EMBARK Initiative Postgraduate Scholar 

Macroecology and Macroevolution Research Group

Zoology building

School of Natural Sciences
Trinity College Dublin

sfin...@tcd.ie

http://www.tcd.ie/Zoology/research/ncooper/people.php

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