Eyeclops TV Microscope

I saw something in the sale ads today for a TV microscope called the Eyeclops. All you do is plug it into a TV and it magnifies everything you look at through the tv. I thought this was pretty cool. It's 39.99, do you guys think its worth it to look at coins?

 

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I looked at that, but it's a fixed magnification, and a rather high one at that, so it would be very limited and probably not work out very well for coins. It does have a USB connection as well, so if there is a future version with variable magnification, or if it could be hacked to change the magnification, it could be quite a find.

 

high magnification, meaning that it shows up on the tv screen HUGE?

 

meaning it shows up at 200x magnification. That's probably too close for RPM's even. For $40, it might be worth buying to see if you can hack the optics and replace with a lower magnification.

 

i saw an interesting one on another forum with pic examples..............very striking pics! i'm gonna try and find a link and post it for you all.

steve

 

here is the link i was speaking of

http://www.livesciencestore.com/58140.html

steve

 

here are some pics

http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=620278

steve

 

I like my digital blue microscope. It does 10x, 60x and 200x. Very seldom do I use 200x and you don't have to worry about holding it steady. I think my father paid between 20-25 for it. Attached is a pic from my scope.

 

I saw the eyeclops in the paper also. the add just mentioned about plugging into the tv. If you could load pics on the computer that could be very usefull. I agree that variable magnification settings would be great.

 

It does have a USB connection in addition to being able to hook it up to your TV. Downside is it's only a 200x magnification. The links posted by grizz are for a different product, it's not the EyeClops.

 

A better bet I'd bet

I have one of these as well. Mine's a QX3 but apparently there's a QX5 out now.

Anyway they are really easy to use and it shows up on your computer monitor. You can import/exort print etc.

Caution though.

From what I've been reading (here on CoinTalk) not really compatible with Vista.

I do love my QX3 though. Get some great pics on 60X.

 

I am having QX3 problems with Windows XP.
It worked right aftet installation, now it will not recognize the USB device.

 

i bought one for fourteen dollars and to me i would like to see more of the coin . alough my twin grandsons are having a blast with it checking things out

 

Mine is a QX5. I am not having any problems with it on my PC, which is XP.

 

I believe the QX5 is a later model.


I'm going to reformat my ancient 350mhz desktop and use it for the specific purpose of documenting and studying coins.
It has a CD writer, so I can back everything up fairly well.
A dedicated coin computer.
I think that is a sign that I'm in deep.

 

That makes two of us, except mine's running at 500MHz.