Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!ucla-cs!uci-ics!honig From: honig@ics.uci.edu (David A. Honig) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Very Small Cheap Cameras for Machine Vision Message-ID: <1989Sep25.182059.24121@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 18:20:59 GMT References: <1989Sep25.064723.775@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu (Network News) Reply-To: David A. HonigOrganization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS Lines: 18 In article <1989Sep25.064723.775@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Craig Hubley) writes: >I am interested in specifications, and ultimately a source, for very small >cheap cameras for use in machine-vision-type applications. Very low >resolution monochrome is appropriate, though of course other options will >be considered in a bang/buck/size/weight equation! Small size is the >primary consideration: I would like to find something maybe the size of >a Chap-Stick or less that still has the capability of focussing on full- >size real-world objects. I saw something like this in a Japanese film >(A Taxing Woman by Juzo Itami) and it didn't look like they were faking it. >Someone told me that sci.electronics hosted such a discussion just recently. > >Craig Hubley Look into the Fisher-Price 'toy' camcorder. It has a small low res monochrome ccd...for under $150. -- David A Honig