The 1,000,000 plant specimens stored at the National Herbarium of New South Wales are a major resource used by scientific botanists to confirm the identification of plants. The Digital Imaging project will provide an Internet- accessible electronic image bank of the herbarium collections. These data will be managed in the NSW collections database system. The images will be accessible through PlantNET on the RBG website. The first phase of the project will include all NSW native (including rare and endangered) and weedy species, subspecies and varieties. This web based database will provide a resource that can be used to confirm plant identifications by the community. This project will link images and enhance the continuing development of the EucaLink, WattleWeb and other similar projects that are part of PlantNet. It is also closely coordinated with the national Australia’s Virtual Herbarium (AVH) project being undertaken by all herbaria in Australia.

The digital photographic equipment was in part funded by a “Community Access to Natural Resource Interaction” (CANRI) grant - a NSW state government initiative.

This document is a technical manual of procedures involved with the use of the Nikon D1x (“DIEGO”) and the procedures required to load images into EMu.

The Nikon D1x is a professional digital SLR with a 5.47 mega pixel CCD delivering resolutions as high as 3,008 x 1,960 pixels. The current set-up utilises a 35mm wide-angle lens. The camera is connected to the computer using a RC-39665 IEEE1394 6P-6P firewire cable (see the User’s Manual for further details). The “Nikon Capture 2” software is used to control the camera from the desktop. See Appendix A for details of the program preferences.

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