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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;frech001, post: 2129839, member: 20616&quot;][ATTACH=full]405421[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]405422[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]405423[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]405424[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]405425[/ATTACH] I take a lot of photos and have been intrigued by the ability to tether a camera to a laptop to enable a full screen view of the image before taking the photo. I use an Aven Digital 5.0 Mega Pixel Mighty Scope, 10x to 200x Magnification mounted on an Aven Mighty Scope Stand. This is tethered to my laptop via a USB cable. This isn&#039;t really a camera but rather a digital examination scope used in medicine and industry. It is quite a bit cheaper than a digital camera and has limited uses. However it allows me to view the image on my laptop to adjust the focus and lighting before I take the picture from my laptop, by clicking my mouse. This saves a lot of time and virtually eliminates the need to retake a picture. I can move the scope up and down the stand to expand/reduce the field of view and thus the resulting magnification to adjust for different size coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a lot of digital examination scopes like this on the market, but this one is built better than others made in China. The software for tethering it to a computer isn&#039;t great, but it is simple and works OK. The focusing mechanism is not as fine as for a camera either and takes some patience to get it just right. I sometimes enlarge the image via the software to observe how well focused it is before I snap the picture. Coarse focusing is done on the scope itself and fine adjust is made like a microscope by adjusting the elevation of the scope via the adjustable stand. I&#039;ve learned to save images in jpg rather than the default .bmp format and then re-save the image again in jpg when I crop the image and name it using other image editing software. This seems to greatly improve the resolution. Once you set up for a particular size coin you just replace and orient the coin and click and move on to the next one. The focus is manual. It has LED lights on the unit that provide OK illumination, but I use supplemental lighting with daylight type lamps I bought at a craft store and a little LED flashlight I purchased for a couple of bucks at a hardware store that has a light focusing lens and popup lantern providing diffused light. With the new LED lighting or even cfl lights the color rendition is easy. If I had the $ I would buy a Canon Rebel Digital SLR or a Nikon, and a macro lens. These two cameras also allow for tethering to a computer and taking the picture remotely. But they are much more expensive as well as bulky.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve attached a photo of the device as well as an example photos of a small transit token showing lots of detail and a large medal to demonstrate the range of this device.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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