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From: Ken Krebs <schrade@schrade.com>
To: Michael Gratton <mike@vee.net>
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Subject: Re: reccomendations for a video camera
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On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Michael Gratton wrote:

>Hi people,
>
>What's a good PC camera to buy (black & white or color)? What software is
>available out there? 
>
>I want be able to capture both individual frames and full motion video.

I would recommend getting the combo Hauppauge WinTV/Camera pack.  It's
only like $189.00 at Fry's Electronics here in the Bay Area.  US Robotics
also sells a similar pack around the same price with a BT848 card and
camera (I use this at work just fine under 3.0-current) but the USR pack
doesn't have a TV Tuner like tha Hauppauge does. 

The US Robotics package has a pretty decent camera with these buttons on
it:

Power on/off
Contrast
BLC on/off (Not sure what this is)
White Balace fixed/auto
IMAGE negative/positive

It's a pretty solid little camera with a nice separate rubber base.

FreeBSD-current recognizes the BT848 card as a Hauppauge card for some
weird reason, though.  It works great with vic and I've transmitted the
Best Internet Fishcam to the MBone every once in a while using it ;)

>Thanks.. 
>Mike.
>
>* Mike Gratton - mike@vee.net
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