Anyone using this group?

Seems dead, which is a suprise considering how many webcams are out
there. Is there a more popular place for discussing them?

I'm trying to catch a destructive squirrel with mine. But I really
need a better zoom. This digital zoom loses so much clarity that I
can barely see a blur.


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South Coast, UK.

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On Wed, 25 May 2005 10:41:04 +0100, Mike Barnard
wrote:

Seems dead, which is a suprise considering how many webcams are out
there. Is there a more popular place for discussing them?

I'm trying to catch a destructive squirrel with mine. But I really
need a better zoom. This digital zoom loses so much clarity that I
can barely see a blur.

Camcorders usually have good optical zoom lens.

I still see some very good posts on this newsgroup. Its a lot better
than some of the other usenet newsgroups.

I have a Logitech cam and I capture shots for my webcam and community
pages. I still have to figure out how to stream to my AOL pages
though. One interesting thing that I did with my webcam was to make a
little movie using some program that I installed a while ago and forgot
about.

I have also used my cam with Yahoo Messager - still haven't been able
to use Netmeeting with it though.


Rose
http://members.aol.com/Roseb441702/webcam.htm

"Mike Barnard" wrote in message
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Seems dead, which is a suprise considering how many webcams are out
there. Is there a more popular place for discussing them?

I'm trying to catch a destructive squirrel with mine. But I really
need a better zoom. This digital zoom loses so much clarity that I
can barely see a blur.


--
Regards from Mike and Jan Barnard.
South Coast, UK.

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Do you have any 'old' camera telephoto lens you could attach ?
see www.knighttrain.freeserve.co.uk/capture1.htm all taken with toucam +
200mm lens and active webcam using motion detection

On Wed, 25 May 2005 22:06:46 GMT, (Si
Ballenger) wrote:

On Wed, 25 May 2005 10:41:04 +0100, Mike Barnard
wrote:

Seems dead, which is a suprise considering how many webcams are out
there. Is there a more popular place for discussing them?

I'm trying to catch a destructive squirrel with mine. But I really
need a better zoom. This digital zoom loses so much clarity that I
can barely see a blur.

Camcorders usually have good optical zoom lens.

Hmm, nice idea. I have a good Canon MV750i. Now what do I need to
hook it up?

fx Google...

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South Coast, UK.

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On 25 May 2005 17:59:19 -0700, "Roseb44170"
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I still see some very good posts on this newsgroup. Its a lot better
than some of the other usenet newsgroups.

I wondered if there might be a forum on a website somewhere.

I have a Logitech cam and I capture shots for my webcam and community
pages. I still have to figure out how to stream to my AOL pages
though. One interesting thing that I did with my webcam was to make a
little movie using some program that I installed a while ago and forgot
about.

I have also used my cam with Yahoo Messager - still haven't been able
to use Netmeeting with it though.

No plans to use it to show my ugly mug, just for watching whats
happening when I'm not usually around.

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Mike Barnard wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2005 22:06:46 GMT, (Si
Ballenger) wrote:


On Wed, 25 May 2005 10:41:04 +0100, Mike Barnard
wrote:


Seems dead, which is a suprise considering how many webcams are out
there. Is there a more popular place for discussing them?

I'm trying to catch a destructive squirrel with mine. But I really
need a better zoom. This digital zoom loses so much clarity that I
can barely see a blur.

Camcorders usually have good optical zoom lens.


Hmm, nice idea. I have a good Canon MV750i. Now what do I need to
hook it up?

fx Google...

I tried this. I have a Canon MV150i. Hooked it up via Firewire port.
Active Webcam picked it up OK, but the image showed all the info that is
usually on the viewfinder/screen....zoom factor, battery level, etc.
Shame really as the 32x optical zoom would have been good. Didn't try
taking the svhs output into my capture card though so not sure if that
will work. Don't know about MV750i, but 150i shuts itself down after a
few minutes if there is 'no activity'..that is no stop/start, etc. I
can't find a way to stop the Auto shut off either. It seems to be a
function that you cannot override.
I also tried it with an old Sony analogue videocam. Worked well
providing I put a tape in, but the poor old camera ended up throwing in
the towel one day,

Dylan,
How did you attach the 200mm lens to your toucam webcam?
"dylan" wrote in message
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"Mike Barnard" wrote in message
...
Seems dead, which is a suprise considering how many webcams are out
there. Is there a more popular place for discussing them?

I'm trying to catch a destructive squirrel with mine. But I really
need a better zoom. This digital zoom loses so much clarity that I
can barely see a blur.


--
Regards from Mike and Jan Barnard.
South Coast, UK.

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Do you have any 'old' camera telephoto lens you could attach ?
see www.knighttrain.freeserve.co.uk/capture1.htm all taken with toucam +
200mm lens and active webcam using motion detection

"puns" wrote in message news:RPjle.10$vK5.3@trnddc03...
Dylan,
How did you attach the 200mm lens to your toucam webcam?


look at www.knighttrain.freeserve.co.uk/lens.htm

you need a webcam to telescope adaptor 1.25" fitting, modified rear lens cap
(drill 32mm hole) and an additional adaptor attached to the lens cap.

On Thu, 26 May 2005 09:41:52 +0100, Mike Barnard
wrote:

On Wed, 25 May 2005 22:06:46 GMT, (Si
Ballenger) wrote:

On Wed, 25 May 2005 10:41:04 +0100, Mike Barnard
wrote:

Seems dead, which is a suprise considering how many webcams are out
there. Is there a more popular place for discussing them?

I'm trying to catch a destructive squirrel with mine. But I really
need a better zoom. This digital zoom loses so much clarity that I
can barely see a blur.

Camcorders usually have good optical zoom lens.

Hmm, nice idea. I have a good Canon MV750i. Now what do I need to
hook it up?

If the cam has an analog output (for connecting to a tv or vcr),
then you would use an analog video capture card/device. If it
only has firewire output, then you would need to use a second
party software like webcamdv to make the video available to most
webcam programs (some webca programs do support the firewire
capture format).