On Jun 30, 8:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jun 29, 11:36 pm, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> [EMAIL > PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >can anybody recommend a simple USB or PCI framegrabber with video > > >input that runs under xp and has a python driver available? I just > > >want to get the image into a file, no special requirements. > > > There are a vast range of inexpensive web cams that will do this job. > > Logitech makes a bunch. Most of the cheap imported still cameras can also > > do it. The Disney still cams at Target (made by Digital Blue) would work. > > > Are you looking for something more industrial? > > I already bought a microscope with a ccd camera (no digital output, > only video signal), so far the image is displayed on a screen. > I want to acquire the images by a python software, which is running > the experiment. > For this reason I need a framegrabber, but I want to buy one that I > can easyly integrate, i.e. call from python. > > Daniel
Do you mean something like this? Easy Cap Audio-Video Capturing Adapter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AvT8JQ7NzI I have no idea whether it would be suitable, but it's a start! :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list