Re: paleonet Software fix for depthy-of-field problems in digital photos

[Patricio Dominguez <patd@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can find several software packages working in the same way. Nikon and Leica have their own systems. But before expend a lot of money on any of them you should read this on-line paper:

Holbourn, A.E. & Henderson, A. ( 2002) Re-illustration and revised taxonomy for selected deep-sea benthic foraminifers. Palaeontologia electronica, vol 4, Issue 2

http://palaeo-electronica.org/2001_2/foram/issue2_01.htm


Cheers,  Patricio




At 12:32 11/02/03 -0600, you wrote:

Hello --

How many of you use digital photos of fossils that have depth-of-field problems?   Particularly under a microscope, it often takes several images taken at different levels to bring the entire image into focus. It seems that cheap software should be available for combining images into a mosaic that contains only the focuses elements of each picture. I searched the net looking for such a product, and found a product called Auto Montage:

http://www.syncroscopy.com/syncroscopy/am.asp

The pictures can be quite startling and contain a large amount of scientific information.  However, the software costs $4500.  Is anybody aware of a cheaper software solution for the problem of combining digital photos taken at different focus planes?  Thanks.

-- Jim Davison

http://www.geocities.com/auralgo/2TopCone.htm

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