New USB Camera, Good And Bad

I just received a cheap USB camera I got off the bay. It only cost £12 so I thought I would take a chance.

It is the "how cool is this?" product...I thought it didn't have any lights but it has 4 overpowered LED lights set into it.

I set it up and when I press the snapshot button on the device nothing happens, and when I press capture on the software which came with it it says "Cannot connect to device"

The method I therefore used was to leave it streaming and use snipping tool to capture the image from the video.

Here are my first couple of shots... it is of a silver shilling I received out of a vending machine as change in the late 1980's or early 1990's. The camera cannot photograph the whole coin in a focused manner from straight above so it needed a little angle to get the whole coin in frame.









For a smaller coin it seems you can get a better shot






I havent really had time to play around with it too much, its possible I can do better with a little practice since these are my first three shots. I would really like to cure that problem of why it won't connect when I press capture.

So all in all it is not entirely ideal but for £12 I think it is still good value.