new cheapy camera

atarian

I got this new cheap used microscope USB camera for my PC . I figure for 35. it was worth toying with while i save up for the DSLR. and wanted to share my first photo with it. Opinions?? I think it works very good for the price but Ill get your opinions

atarian

looking at this result i think this could be better than a 1500 camera. ( probably not ) but im very impressed with it. cant get much better than this i take it.

Tdec1000

What kind is it?

atarian

Celestron 10x-150Xdigital microscope. Tiny little thing a little taller than a roll of quarters but its not all that bad.

melvin289

Looks perfectly fine to me. Wish I could do as well. Congratulations on the pick up and on saving some money.
The camera takes great pics.

Ron

BigE

Lets see a picture of the camera------BigE

thisnamztaken

Looks good for showing minute coin details; especially for the price.

CyStater

Is this it?

link

AnkurJ

Can you get an image of the entire coin or only closeups?

JamesMurray

It's the one i bought last year , cystater has the link there.It can't do an entire coin unless maybe an old US 3c silver but it is pretty good on getting the details of any one area of a coin as the OP has shown.

ricko

Very good.... I think it is excellent results..especially for the price. Cheers, RickO

keyman64

This might be my solution for the varieties! I'll take photos of the entire coin with my high quality equipment then use something like this for the close up of the variety. Very Very Interesting!

Since the microscope camera will image at 10x, 40x and 150x...which setting did you have it on for the photo you posted? Thanks.

tahoe98

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(want to see answer too)

JamesMurray

If it's the celestron theres really no way to know what magnification X exactly a user is on , it's a dial that spins and comes into focus depending on distance.A fickle wee thing but decent results.I'll probably have mine up on the BST shortly as i used it for studying Maundy coins and accomplished what i set out to do with it.