well… this is a flashlight site. (i know, “duh”)
but, if i try to divide flashaholics into stages? I’m no longer a rank noob, but, i’m also far from being any expert. I’m in that “awkward” middle area.
but… when suddenly “USB digital microscope” appeared? Well, yeah i got very excited! just like a little kid! Why? simple… you wandered into MY WORLD. I might not be like “old lumens” (rip) with visible flashlights? But… I’m a lot more comfortable and “powerful” when i am doing digital imaging.
just like YOU guys cant believe what people are willing to pay retail for, and get so little out of flashlights? I cant believe what passes for a “USB digital microscope”. For the same money? I can CRUSH that unit, i think.
i am resisting “temptation” of lowering the working height DOWN from 12 inches, to 30mm… which seems to be about where most projects and commercial units give their “wow” images… at 12 inches, i already have the “2015” more than filling up the entire screen on the laptop viewing of the webcam image board, and am idly curious how small my field of view would become at that work height.
I’m kinda curious when i use the “big lens” how much more magnification i can GET, although i know its only academic… i already have magnification higher than i would want to solder at.
I am also kinda curious, if the money you spent on the commercial unit… was put only “where it counts” in a project build, how it would end up. I mean, lets face it… the work space is nothing, the imaging tube is just a tube and some sliding clamp or gooseneck to suspend it over the work area… the only things that REALLY matter, are the LENS and the IMAGE board.
but yeah, i get excited like a little kid, sometimes. I enjoy a project.