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Grayscale QuickCam.

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maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 26 Oct 2002 : 03:51:29 About 3 years ago, i was on a site called "Hardware Hacking Cool Stuff, and it had a link to a hack in which you can make a GrayScale QuickCam a Colour QuickCam. However, knowing my luck, yes it lead to a dead link. Now, the question is: Is this possible, or am i right and this guy was bluffing? I always thought it was impossible. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 26 Oct 2002 : 06:01:28 quote: About 3 years ago, i was on a site called "Hardware Hacking Cool Stuff, and it had a link to a hack in which you can make a GrayScale QuickCam a Colour QuickCam. However, knowing my luck, yes it lead to a dead link. Now, the question is: Is this possible, or am i right and this guy was bluffing? I always thought it was impossible. Sounds highly improbable, but you never know, some companies have been known to intentionally hobble lower price point systems to protect high end sales. :rolleyes: jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 26 Oct 2002 : 06:06:26 Could be a possibility, but i still think he may have been bluffing, all the same. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 26 Oct 2002 : 06:18:30 quote: Could be a possibility, but i still think he may have been bluffing, all the same. Sounds like a fairly safe assumption, but if it was really on a web page . . . IT MUST BE TRUE! There is a good chance that the CCD used in the B&W version is color capable. Dunno about the conversion tho, it'd hardly be worthwhile to pursue today. jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 26 Oct 2002 06:24:26
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 26 Oct 2002 : 06:24:40 Yeah. But still, if someone out there reading this knows the solution, then feel free to speak up! Iwannahear! -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 26 Oct 2002 : 06:48:46 Maybe the hack involved swapping out the CCD? ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City v3.0
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 26 Oct 2002 : 06:54:02 That could be a possibility. I don't even know how you'd get into the little biotch to begin with! -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 26 Oct 2002 : 07:51:13 quote: That could be a possibility. I don't even know how you'd get into the little biotch to begin with! :rolleyes: Then buy the OTHER little b . . . I'll wager it's the suport circuitry or firmware that's different at the compression level. Tooling costs for housing a B&W CCD a/o matching it to the color unit's optics would be much greater economic constraints than the cost of using the same color CCD and laming the circuit board to hit a lower price point. The CCD's could very well be rejected color units whose flaws would not impact on their use in a grayscale capacity. In that case, the circuit boards might be identical and the "upgrade" might be trivial from a hardware hacking perspective. YMMV WIDELY for the utility of the unit in color mode if that is the case, however! jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 26 Oct 2002 : 14:16:43 Already tried that. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 30 Oct 2002 : 18:59:08 Not what the doctor ordered, but fun nonetheless Ugly manual color filter hack: http://lucy.murraynet.net/digiphoto/cpfgc.html Another MOD for IR: http://sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~rhangart/quickcaminfo/quickcammod.html Astronomy MOD for longer exposure times: http://www.astrocam.org/cooling.htm Guide to disassembly: http://perso.club-internet.fr/uranos/disassemble_quickcam.htm Cheers, G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent & User of the Hockey Puck Mouse of Radial Symmetry
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 30 Oct 2002 : 19:15:07 quote: Not what the doctor ordered, but fun nonetheless . . . ABSOLUTELY! I didn't know you can FOCUS those things! Can you do that without opening it up or is it only a factory adjustment kinda deal? Does the image update fast enough (acouple of times a minute at a bare minimum) to be able to focus the image and zoom the lens remotely? I think I need a new toy! I have a surplus macro-powerzoom-autofocus video camera lens that'd be perfect to put in front of that CCD! jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 31 Oct 2002 : 00:43:59 Thanks, G4From128k. Btw, you have to open 'er up to adjust the focus. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 31 Oct 2002 : 06:06:37 The small size of the QuickCam sensor (4mm diagonal) means that if you hack a 35mm camera lens on to it, you will get an amazing 12.5X telephoto system. And, if you fuse the Quickcam (with the Quickcam lens removed) to the backside of some extension tubes, you can create an interchange lens mount. My guess is that a 200mm lens for a 35 mm camera will provide the equivalent to a 2500mm lens when mounted in front of the Quickcam CCD (with the lens removed). You should be able to do full-frame images of the moon and sun with this set-up. Happy zooming, G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent & User of the Hockey Puck Mouse of Radial Symmetry
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 31 Oct 2002 : 12:36:12 quote: My guess is that a 200mm lens for a 35 mm camera will provide the equivalent to a 2500mm lens when mounted in front of the Quickcam CCD I'm basically a fixed focal length kinda guy, gotta get one of these babies! My {url="http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources/fllenses/400mmf45.jpg" target="_blank">400mm F 4.5 lens would be a 5000mm telephoto! The surplus 9-54mm vidcam zoom was only ab0ut $12 so I couldn't resist. It even has a filter slot built in, besides the macro focusing capability. None of the sites I checked lists focal lengths for any of the Quickcam lenses, so I can't figure out an equivalent. Has anybody got a spec on the focal length of the stock lens? jt ™. Trash Hauler: call sign: eight-ball C.O. AC-130H SpecOps 68kMLAAF

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