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? Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
