My usual test is a cuneiform replica or a fossil. Today this dome had a full test with the tablet and my Nikon D650 (100ASA, 1/10s F10, jpg, no white balance calibration).
This replica is very useful and is of the Sumerian period (2600 BCE). It is 8cm x 7.5cm and came from the Sumerian city of Shuruppak. It describes the sale of a house and names two witnesses. The original is in the Louvre Museum
I visited Oxford’s dome in MOLA – it was in amongst lots of interesting storage boxes.
Klaus just sent us a nice image of dome4 imaging a famous statue at the C2RMF:
A new paper has just been published detailing the work that was carried about by David Selmo of S&A Underwater Imaging Specialists LLC with support from members of the custom imaging team. This paper which can be downloaded from http://electronicimaging.spiedigitallibrary.org/article.aspx?articleid=2608312 describes the creation and evaluation of a RTI capture dome suitable for use underwater.
Kirk & Phil have this week delivered the first of the geodesic domes to the University of York Archeology department.
Delivering the Geodesic dome to the University of York