Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-22 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:59:03 +0100 John Stumbles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Ideas? Magnifying glass on a stand? The depth of field with a camera is likely to be so shallow it'd be useless for 3D work. not sure about macro work, but consumer digital cameras

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:52:24PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: not sure about macro work, but consumer digital cameras have a rediculous depth of field due to the tiny ccd. Thats one of their big issues in proper portrait work. anyway, not sure if there is a linux driver or anything more

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-22 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:27:12 -0400 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:52:24PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: not sure about macro work, but consumer digital cameras have a rediculous depth of field due to the tiny ccd. Thats one of their big issues in

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-22 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:27:12 -0400 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:52:24PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: not sure about macro work, but consumer digital cameras have a rediculous depth of field due to the tiny ccd. Thats one of their big issues in

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-18 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 16 October 2007 06:48 pm, 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

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-18 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-17 Thread Kevin Mark
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

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-17 Thread John Stumbles
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Ideas? Magnifying glass on a stand? The depth of field with a camera is likely to be so shallow it'd be useless for 3D work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:59:03AM +0100, John Stumbles wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Ideas? Magnifying glass on a stand? To do this optically, it would be more likely a jeweler's loupe, or a 10x wide-field binocular microscope. I'm sure that there are optical options that would work

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:48:12AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:48:44PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: 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

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:01:44AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:48:12AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:48:44PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I've done small work before but this is so tiny that actually seeing what I'm doing will be one

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Oct 17, 2007, at 6:01 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:48:12AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: 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/ Do web cams have the fine resolution

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-17 Thread John Stumbles
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: So at this point, the question is can a consumer digital camera function like a web-cam and then do I just view it with something like VLC? None of the cheap digicams I have/had (Nikon Coolpix and various Canons) nor my Pentax K100D DSLR can work as a webcam. My

OT: camera for small work

2007-10-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
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