Re: USB Microscope camera or webcam for Linux?

CptDondo <yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
Are there any microscope cameras that work with Linux USB webcam
drivers?
Or is anyone using a webcam on a microscope?


There are adapters for telescope mounts; I don't see why they
wouldn't work on a microscope.

I'd rather use something like gphoto2 and get a real camera.

Probably cheaper and much better in the long run.

For photomicrography your suggestions are in fact quite correct.

I use a Nikon D2x (though gphoto2 doesn't work with it, and
"cheaper" it ain't).

However, in this case the purpose is different. I want real
time video so that children can watch what is happening as a
specimen is setup for viewing. Video allows several children to
see the same things all at once, and it provides them with
something of interest during the process rather than only as an
end point for individual viewing.

A video camera designed for a microscope would clearly be the
best, but I suspect that it is possible to adapt a webcam too,
in much the same way that some of the "Point and Shoot" digital
cameras are adapted (which is very different than using a high
end DSLR).

I have no experience with any type of video cameras on Linux,
and would be interested in comments on webcams as well as
microscope cameras.

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Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@xxxxxxxxxx
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