Microscope Review

Poking around it seems OK, no lag that I noticed right away. No soldering iron, but waving the lead from a mechanical pencil around it looked fine.. something I can work with I hope.

Also nice for looking at critters in pond scum. (We found other critters too... wormy things, copepods, and those bivalve type things, ostracod. ) I'm not sure the depth of field is all that great... but I'm not sure how to quantify that. George H.

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Can you record the video on your computer?

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IDK, my daughter took a video with her phone and posted it somewhere.

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By plugging into the phone with the USB or by videoing the display on the microscope?

Mine has a Micro SD slot and records directly to it.

Right... (I didn't look at all the options.. just turned it on. :^) But with a micro SD card you can record video and take pictures. I guess I should buy a card.

George H.

Certainly using an SD card is better than nothing while a microSD card is a bit less convenient, having to fumble with the adapter to plug it into your PC and even the inconvenience of just keeping track of yet another tiny gadget used seldom.

My still camera has an SD card, but I prefer to just plug it into my PC with a USB cable and copy the photos off. Same with my cell phone. Getting the microSD card out of that thing is a chore.

I just wondered if the USB cable was useful for anything other than power.

Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Put it in the phone. KEEP it IN THE PHONE. PLUG YOUR PHONE IN TO YOUR COMPUTER.

Sheesh.

Yet you seem to think the same is not possible with your phone?

Leave it in then. Damn! Boy. Storage is storage. You don't need to remove it to read it on another device.

The camera USB port should not only be a charging port, but should also be a data port as well.

SHOULD BE. If it is not, then you should have chosen one of the myriad of others that were right there on the same page.

Yes. You need a better cable than the one that comes with the microscope.

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Yes, you are exactly right. With a good USB cable it works fine with the PC. With the cable they send with the microscope, not so much. Ed

I got it to connect, but what application do you use to view it on your computer?

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What do you use with USB cameras?

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Cameras take a picture and store it on the flash drive. The camera plugged into the PC usually looks like a disk drive and you copy the images. A vi deo camera can make files on the flash drive, but we are talking about live recordings going to the PC.

Someone earlier mentioned VLC will connect to some standard stream format. Not sure if the camera supports that.

DUH! I have two, one of which works splendidly. Thank you!

John S wrote in news:r5an9g$f66$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

File manager. errr.. it's Windows, so... file mangler...

Anyway, the file should already be in a viewable format. If it is still in 'raw'form, the device should include an applet for converting it. So if it came with nothing, there may be a web site for it.

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You're welcome. I have software for a USB endoscope that works with most we bcams that don't use oddball commands.

I use a free thing called WebCamViewer by Bustatech. Works fine.

YAWCAM is OK too. It can dump an image periodically, which I do for the cam at the cabin. I dump a snap of the driveway to Dropbox every few minutes so we can admire the snow and see who is parked there.

Does WebCamViewer fill your monitor screen? I'm running 1920x1080.