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Re: Cheap Webcams?
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lugnet.publish
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Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:00:05 GMT
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Haylp! I have no experience with web-cams or digi-cameras, so buying a web-cam
and finding that it's unsuitable is a bit of an expensive experiment! Any
advice would be wonderful - am I wasting time considering 640x480? Do web-cams
have any other features that make them unsuitable for taking LEGO pictures?
Thanks,
Richard
In lugnet.publish, Richard Franks writes:
> Just a quickie - plans to borrow a 'proper' digital camera have fallen
> through, so I was wondering if cheap web-cams (less than $100) have good
> enough quality for taking LEGO pictures?
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> Some of the ones in my price-range are max resolution of 640x480, which would
> be fine - but not if they distort, have weird colours or are otherwise pants.
> I'm already resigned to having to drag my machine around behind me if I can't
> get one with a big enough cable ;)
>
> Any pointers would be greatly apprieciated! Thanks!
> Richard
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| (...) The pictures on my site (plug follows in .sig) were taken with a fairly old Sony Mavica (sorry, I don't have the model number to hand- I borrowed it from work) at 640x480. It takes a bit of skill to get them out OK (and you can see some of the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| Just a quickie - plans to borrow a 'proper' digital camera have fallen through, so I was wondering if cheap web-cams (less than $100) have good enough quality for taking LEGO pictures? Some of the ones in my price-range are max resolution of (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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