Re: OT: camera for small work
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:48:44PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm one of the few people on the planet without a digital camera.
>
> I have a tiny job to do on my wife's horn glasses if I can't get the
> shop to do it. The hinges need changing and I'm told that its
> impossible for the manufacturer to halt the production line for a month
> to do it and nobody else is set up for what ammounts to microsurgery.
>
> I've done small work before but this is so tiny that actually seeing
> what I'm doing will be one of the big challenges. The existing hinges
> are 3mm x 3mm x 15mm or so and are resessed into the temple about 1.5
> mm. The old ones have to be mechanically removed, the divit filled with
> a replacement piece of horn, then new hinges fitted.
>
> I'm wondering if normal consumer-grade digital cameras that have a macro
> function (such as some of the Panasonic ones) can hook up to my linux
> box to allow continuous viewing (like a close-up video camera). I would
> mount it on a tripod.
>
> What software would be recommended? Would VLC do that?
>
> I'm a cardiac nurse and I'm not so worried about the hand-eye nature of
> the job, I just don't know if standard consumer hardware will do it.
>
> Ideas?
>
I think many webcams can be viewed in this way, having a display of what
you are looking at.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~reynolds/quickcam/
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