Camera settings
White balance: If your camera offers to choose the colour temperature directly select a colour temperature of 5000 K. If this option is not available choose the normal daylight presets.

Image quality: RAW or TIFF (sRGB).

Exposure: We generally recommend ISO sensitivities of maximally 800 together with a shutter speed of 1/60 s to 1/80 s and an aperture of 11 to 14.

Interval shooting: If your camera offers this option set the number of intervals to 48, the length of the interval to 1 second and choose one shot per interval. If you are using a capture software you might have to choose longer intervals to make sure the images can be transferred to your computer in time.
 

Acquisition
The menu item “SETUP” allows to adjust the brightness of the LED. “ALL“ alters the brightness of all 48 LED simultaneously. Use this modelling light function to focus the lens / to control the depth of field. “SINGLE” controls the brightness of the actual image capturing process (thereby, for every picture taken, an alternating LED is being activated).
In the following, press the button “SEQUENCE” in the main menu. Press “START”. One LED lights up.
You can now start the acquisition process by using your camera’s interval shooting option (48 pictures) or an image capture software of your choice. (In principle, you can also trigger the camera 48 times by hand but this is not recommended since it might cause blurring of the images and slight changes of the camera position.)
For each image another LED is lit in the Scope D50.
Make sure there are no other light sources lighting the object by checking your camera’s live view. With only a small amount of ambient light you should still obtain reasonable results. If required you can use the included light protection elements:
-    light protection wrap
-    light protection collar (on the lens).

Prepare images for Authentica Creator 
Transfer the acquired images from the camera to your computer.
Open all images simultaneously in Photoshop or any other image processing programme.
Select all images and adjust the brightness and colour temperature.
Apply corrections for chromatic aberration and lens profile of your camera.
Crop a rectangular selection which contains the object
Create a new folder and save the images as TIFF images using sRGB as colour space.
You can use a colour depth of 16 or 8 bit for the TIFF images.

Installing Authentica Creator
In order to install and unlock the Authentica Creator software, please follow the instructions as stated in the provided license card.