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)

Software: EOS (settings: manual focus, 0.8 exposure, F13 aperture, ISO 100, Large image file, picture style Fine Detail, & white balance using custom procedure in Live View shoot)

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

FLAS herbarium Canon R5 imaging station