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 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? >
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/ -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
