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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I picked this Dinolite up for just under a "C" note. It was one of those "I will place a max bid and forget about it" auctions.  I was surprised that I was high bidder, since I was just "fooling around with it".  Edited by oih82w8
01/29/2012 2:12 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10038 Posts |
Good snag!
How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halveshttps://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 |
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New Member
United States
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I have one of the Brightwell/DigiScopes ($60) and have been quite pleased with it. I have not used it lately since I upgraded to Windows 7 64bit. Anybody out there figured out how to get it work with Win7-64bit, or do you have drivers that work. It is a chinese company and I have not been able to find useful support on the web. My other option is to buy a new one that hopefully has new drivers... My scope is just like this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digi-Micros...em3f130b920a |
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New Member
United States
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I found a solution.... If you are running Win 7 32bit or 64bit (Pro or Ultimate), you can download from Microsoft 'XP Mode'. You are essentially running a copy of Win XP on your Win 7 computer. XP Mode download link: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/...dows-xp-mode |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How does the Digital Blue QX5 compare to the above mentioned USB microscopes?
Thanks
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hello, Well, I have had this iT7 USB camera hooked up and running for about three months now and have learned more about its characteristics. This camera is not perfect by any means but I never expected it to be so for such an inexpensive price. The solid buy.com 100% return guarantee does provide the user some comfort and plenty of time to return the unit if dissatisfied etc... This camera does, however, keep producing decent photos as evidenced by the recent ones I shot last evening: https://goccf.com/t/117712just an fyi, mdpmedia |
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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At lunch today, I put some electrical tape on all but three leds, on my USB Microscope. I think its near perfect lighting conditions for my setup. Good post!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I put some electrical tape on all but three leds, on my USB Microscope. Sometimes the even most simple but not-so-obvious suggestions are the ones that produce even better quality photos. One of the features of the much more expensive USB cameras is the inclusion of variable resistor-controlled LED lighting. An excellent feature to have if one wants to shell out the additional dinero($). The inexpensive USB cameras typically possess only two light intensity levels with the higher level often adversely whiting out the features of the coin. When I previously alluded to this featured iT7 USB camera not being perfect, this particular subject was one of the minor issues I had in mind. Covering the LEDs with some removable and opaque black tape is a cheap but effective way to adjust the lighting as needed. The least expensive stand-alone variable intensity ring LED lighting system that I could find is about $ 60 including S/H. Good idea  mdpmedia |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I still can adjust how bright those three leds are with the controls but covering most of them worked best.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hello, Here is a helpful example of the iT7 capturing the 'pinwheel luster' of a mint state(MS) copper coin: https://goccf.com/t/121192Now I have shown in this thread photo examples using the iT7 on coins made of nickel, nickel-copper, and copper. fyi, mdpmedia |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Mdpmedia....that's a dang good pic ! You just need to tone down that hot spot on the back of Lincoln's head.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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hi, I tried to tone down the obverse hot spots a bit using a homemade diffuser on this MS-64 high luster copper cent. Please note the three before and after side-by-side comparison photos. The photo on the right is the original shot with the hot spot behind the head. I could have posted a larger photo but placing three of these larger ones all side-by-side would have exceeded the allowable upload file size limit etc. One can note that the cartwheel effect produced by a single point of light source is severely diminished in these recent shots(left and middle photos) since theoretically a diffuser sends light from infinite points of origin... It's still not perfect but hopefully it's trending toward optimization. mdpmedia  |
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 United States
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I prefer the middle shot. John1  |
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Valued Member
United States
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I think this is the best place to ask.
The cleaner or Acid is eating up the surface making the coins evenly clean, can you detect or see the etched (rough) surface with microscope?
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