Which is the operations flow-chart for dating a sample with Synchro Search?
top 1. Visual analysis of the instrument or photographs of it to find an area where at least 30-50 adjacent rings can be read, where there are no joints or flaws and no restoring has been carried on that could lead to incorrect ring readings. 2. Photographing the selected area with a good quality digital camera with a resolution of at least 3 mega pixels, a suitable zoom and an additional mounting option. 3. Computerised enlargement of the photographs and printing as big as possible. 4. Marking the ring boundaries on the enlargement and division into numbered segments. 5. Photographing each segment with an additional lens to enlarge it to the required size, when an instrument is analysed whose soundboard or belly has very narrow rings and are therefore difficult to measure. The user can usually go straight on to point 7 from point 4. 6. Filing the enlarged photographs as in point 4 or those obtained as shown in point 6, ready for measurement using the Image Measurer. 7. Activating the
