D Yuniskis Inscribed thus:

On 1/15/2011 2:08 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
However, that's not what I use on the bench. I butchered a USB
camera and what's left of a childrens microscope into a nifty
magnifying
system. The LCD monitor displays the image and the computah can
capture the image if necessary. I suggest you just play with
whatever lenses you can scrounge and a USB camera and see what you
can do.

I have a USB camera mounted on a gooseneck (manual focus) that
I can position over (one of) the stereoscope's eyepiece. Or,
use "unaided" to just examine boards/components. I can;t recall
who makes it -- it was from a "science" classroom intended to
let students examine bugs, minerals, anything under a microscope,
etc. I.e., *designed* for this sort of purpose (instead of as
a "web cam")

Veho ! Maybe !

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Best Regards:
Baron.