There are CCD modules (often come with lenses, which can be taken off) sold on Amazon, eBay or aliexpress (or even better, Taobao) costing USD 20-40. These modules should be capable of taking full HD movies (MPEG or YUV2 compressed) at 30fps these days. Some may allow 120fps@640x480 or promise higher sensitivities.
A better alternative is old DSLR bodies, which have larger, better sensors. There should be plenty of them, cheaply, on 2nd-hand market. The aforementioned CCD modules all use the smallest, lowest-end (but OK for what we do) sensors, in constrast. Then with a 3D printer and some black PLA filament it is fairly easy to make a custom mounting tube that directly puts the CCD or the camera sensor on the image plane of the microscope. Metal adaptors are also available for DSLR bodies. To control the CCD modules through USB, one can use amcap or VLC player. For DSLR bodies, digiCamControl. If one has a Raspberrypi, on-line streaming can also be setup using mjpg-streamer (or simply use the streaming function of octoprint). Zhijie ________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board <[email protected]> on behalf of Dean Derbyshire <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 11:35 To: [email protected] Subject: [ccp4bb] microscope camera Forgive the off topic subject: Has anyone got any experience with moticam microscope cameras? We are looking into cheap cameras for record keeping etc and this supplier looks good but… Cheers in advance Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
