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Re: Cheap Webcams?
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lugnet.publish
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Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:22:05 GMT
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Richard Franks wrote:
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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?
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 pics are a bit fuzzy) but you *can*
still get reasonable pics at that resolution.
I did find resizing them down to 320x240 and recompressing looks a bit
better. (Links go from the smaller images to the full size version.) As
to whether webcams (rather than digital cameras) have more problems, I'm
not sure. I've seen a lot of black and white webcams which probably
isn't what you want.
:: paul
:: http://www.songtwo.demon.co.uk/lego/made/
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| (...) Thanks for the link - your pictures turned out great - I think 640x480 could be fine for the sort of thing that I want to do (take pictures from inside a LEGO jungle of ~60 palm trees) :) Although manual focus seems to be a definate (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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