You may wish to visit www.sony.com/videocameras to see their full range of cameras, or contact them to help you select the most appropriate camera (or system) for your requirements. Contact name is Herb Ruterschmidt, T.S.I., Sony Representative Ph: 847-259-1830 -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kane, Joseph E (US SSA) Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:16 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Trinocular Scope With Display I may have an opportunity to put together a decent inspection station for our lab. The choices out there have my head spinning, maybe some of you have experience or recommendations to share. Not sure what we'll have to spend, but this system will be used partly for customer presentations, so I'm hoping we can do it up right. This would be used for everything from FA on components, to solder inspection on boards, to looking inside small chassis. Need capability for image capture, and maybe a nice big screen so others in the room could see. Optics - Trinocular, zoom, good depth of field/working distance, magnification from about 5-7x up to about 40-50x. Some have a lever that disables one of the binocular eyepieces whenever you want the camera to work, and I think this is a pain. In the archives I saw a recommendation for a Meiji EMZ-8TR - any others? What about a 0.5x objective lens to increase working distance? Stand - Articulating, single or double boom arm? Counterweight? Swivel? Biggest pain I've had is adjusting the Z height easily. Usually you have to release the slip ring, lower it, retighten, then release the head, and drop it down on the slip ring, sometimes heavily. Is there any easier way to adjust? Screen - maybe around 40". LCD, so no burn-in. Camera - CCD or CMOS? Resolution? Output? What about Sony? Some might think we'd be better off with a good hi-res digital still camera. C-mount? Either way, is it realistic to expect that the image would be close to what we see through the eyepieces? Lighting - Probably a ring light and moveable fiber optic arms. Anything new being done with LED's? Polarization? Any hints for picking up tin whiskers? Image Capture - Any special kind of card in the PC? Software? Probably output in bitmap, convert to JPG. Don't need PhotoShop, but some basic image processing will be helpful. Joe Kane BAE Systems Johnson City, NY --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------