Microscope Review

[Michael Terrell]

On Monday, March 23, 2020 at 2:03:10 PM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:39:46 -0700 (PDT), Michael Terrell wrote:

On Monday, March 23, 2020 at 12:42:45 PM UTC-4, John S wrote:
On 3/23/2020 11:29 AM, Michael Terrell wrote:
On Monday, March 23, 2020 at 12:14:46 PM UTC-4, John S wrote:
On 3/23/2020 12:11 AM, ehsjr wrote:
On 3/21/2020 2:31 PM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

snip

   The camera USB port should not only be a charging port, but should
also be a data port as well.

Yes, you are exactly right. With a good USB cable it works fine with the
PC.  With the cable they send with the microscope, not so much.
Ed


I got it to connect, but what application do you use to view it on your
computer?


What do you use with USB cameras?


DUH! <forehead slap> I have two, one of which works splendidly. Thank you!

You're welcome. I have software for a USB endoscope that works with most webcams that don't use oddball commands.

I use a free thing called WebCamViewer by Bustatech. Works fine.

YAWCAM is OK too. It can dump an image periodically, which I do for
the cam at the cabin. I dump a snap of the driveway to Dropbox every
few minutes so we can admire the snow and see who is parked there.

Whatever gets the job done, with good results is all that matters with these cameras.

I have tried several USB microscopes, but they all had too much lag to get a good image. From the first Intel 'blue' microscope over 20 years ago. I did better with a flatbed scanner to get good images of small components and hardware for websites.

 

[Mike Coon]

In article <cb53971f-7c9b-4bb1-9471-f5f5f25f6d10@googlegroups.com>,
terrell.michael.a@gmail.com says...

You're welcome. I have software for a USB endoscope that works with
most webcams that don't use oddball commands.

I have amcap.exe in c:\Windows which says it is copyright Microsoft. Not
sure how it got there. But it happily shows video from my cheapo
endoscope which I have had no end of trouble getting to work with
portable Android devices via OTG. (But now have with "OTG View".)

Mike.

 

On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:33:08 -0500, John S <Sophi.2@invalid.org>
wrote:

On 3/23/2020 1:02 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:39:46 -0700 (PDT), Michael Terrell
terrell.michael.a@gmail.com> wrote:

On Monday, March 23, 2020 at 12:42:45 PM UTC-4, John S wrote:
On 3/23/2020 11:29 AM, Michael Terrell wrote:
On Monday, March 23, 2020 at 12:14:46 PM UTC-4, John S wrote:
On 3/23/2020 12:11 AM, ehsjr wrote:
On 3/21/2020 2:31 PM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

snip

   The camera USB port should not only be a charging port, but should
also be a data port as well.

Yes, you are exactly right. With a good USB cable it works fine with the
PC.  With the cable they send with the microscope, not so much.
Ed


I got it to connect, but what application do you use to view it on your
computer?


What do you use with USB cameras?


DUH! <forehead slap> I have two, one of which works splendidly. Thank you!

You're welcome. I have software for a USB endoscope that works with most webcams that don't use oddball commands.

I use a free thing called WebCamViewer by Bustatech. Works fine.

YAWCAM is OK too. It can dump an image periodically, which I do for
the cam at the cabin. I dump a snap of the driveway to Dropbox every
few minutes so we can admire the snow and see who is parked there.


Does WebCamViewer fill your monitor screen? I'm running 1920x1080.

Not sure. I think it throws cam pixels onto your screen 1:1. With the
cheap cams I have here, less pix than my screen, that makes a smallish
box image in fullscreen mode.

I use it with several microscopes and it displays and saves images
well enough.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p3vpbaofzqurebz/Z462_PCB_Way_2.png?raw=1


WinXP used to directly display images from USB cams. For some reason,
they deleted that.




--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet.
"Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"

 

[John S]

On 3/23/2020 2:24 PM, Mike Coon wrote:

In article <cb53971f-7c9b-4bb1-9471-f5f5f25f6d10@googlegroups.com>,
terrell.michael.a@gmail.com says...

You're welcome. I have software for a USB endoscope that works with
most webcams that don't use oddball commands.

I have amcap.exe in c:\Windows which says it is copyright Microsoft. Not
sure how it got there. But it happily shows video from my cheapo
endoscope which I have had no end of trouble getting to work with
portable Android devices via OTG. (But now have with "OTG View".)

Mike.

Yes, I have amcap as well. That's the one that works for me. Small
picture but at least it's displayed on my computer and can be captured.

 

[Phil Hobbs]

On 2020-03-23 14:02, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:39:46 -0700 (PDT), Michael Terrell
terrell.michael.a@gmail.com> wrote:

On Monday, March 23, 2020 at 12:42:45 PM UTC-4, John S wrote:
On 3/23/2020 11:29 AM, Michael Terrell wrote:
On Monday, March 23, 2020 at 12:14:46 PM UTC-4, John S wrote:
On 3/23/2020 12:11 AM, ehsjr wrote:
On 3/21/2020 2:31 PM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

snip

   The camera USB port should not only be a charging port, but should
also be a data port as well.

Yes, you are exactly right. With a good USB cable it works fine with the
PC.  With the cable they send with the microscope, not so much.
Ed


I got it to connect, but what application do you use to view it on your
computer?


What do you use with USB cameras?


DUH! <forehead slap> I have two, one of which works splendidly. Thank you!

You're welcome. I have software for a USB endoscope that works with most webcams that don't use oddball commands.

I use a free thing called WebCamViewer by Bustatech. Works fine.

YAWCAM is OK too. It can dump an image periodically, which I do for
the cam at the cabin. I dump a snap of the driveway to Dropbox every
few minutes so we can admire the snow and see who is parked there.

I'm a fan of guvcview. (I don't know the official pronunciation, if
any, but I call it "juicyview".)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
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