Need to adapt a fiber optic as a lens to a video camera lens

[IdeaMan]

Basically, the fiber optic lens will be an extension to the video camera lens so that light going through the fiber goes
directly into the video camera lens. We have several trees in our back yard and we want to look inside some of the holes
in the tree to see what is inside it. How to make a fiber optic light source would be useful to. Thanks for your time.

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

IdeaMan wrote:

Basically, the fiber optic lens will be an extension to the video camera lens so that light going through the fiber goes
directly into the video camera lens. We have several trees in our back yard and we want to look inside some of the holes
in the tree to see what is inside it. How to make a fiber optic light source would be useful to. Thanks for your time.

Basically, your idea is unworkable as a homebrew project. How many
times are you going to repeat this nonsense on all of the electronics
newsgroups? People keep telling you that it is a complex subject, but it
just isn't sinking in.

If your trees have holes that big they should be cut down before they
fall on someone.

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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[BretCahill]

"Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> in

Message-id: <3F9209B6.8F4C7020@earthlink.net> writes:

IdeaMan wrote:

Basically, the fiber optic lens will be an extension to the video camera
lens so that light going through the fiber goes
directly into the video camera lens.

.. . .

Basically, your idea is unworkable as a homebrew project.

True but in the near future it might be
possible for a price.

_Science News_ recently ran something
about a camera that used a lot of lenslets
that were deliberately out of focus. A
computer then enhanced the image and
the depth of field was increased by a factor
of 10.


Bret Cahill

 

[Sir Charles W. Shults III]

Fiber optic image cables are extremely touchy to make, and very expensive on
the commercial market. They are made by taking very small glass fibers, winding
them carefully and perfectly in parallel on a drum, and then sealing them into a
crimped, epoxied ferrule so the order of the fibers is not violated. Then the
ferrule is cut in half, the fibers are in exactly the same places in both ends,
and polished to optical flatness.
You are proposing something that you really cannot afford in either cash or
time, unless you have a real rich uncle or access to a surplus unit. Just buy a
super cheap video camera from Supercircuits.com (B&W for $20) and send it down
the hole.

Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip