So far I have not been able to find a camera lucida that fits a low range microscope.
Hello Christian Riquelme,
you can always draw free-hand with the help of a ruler to mark the measured length and width of the microscopic parts you want to draw before putting the lines. For example if you work with 1000x and 1 stripe is 1 micron, on paper x 4000 = 1micron 4 mm
With a bit of practice this can be better as a drawing tube
Regards,
Stip
Thanks Stip Helleman. A very clarifying example. It will certainly take a lot of practice to represent even the smallest detail well.
DearCristian Riquelme
here are my suggestions
Graphics tablet
In theory, the component is optional, since you can draw with the mouse. Practically necessary. You can choose a tablet based on your requirements or budget. The better the tablet, the more comfortable it will be to draw and the more accurate the drawing will be.
The equipment we used:
Jenaval microscope
ScopeTec DCM 500 USB camera
Wacom Intuos 4M graphics tablet and stylus
Computer configuration:
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E7500 2.93 GHz
4GB memory
500GB hard drive
ATI Radeon HD 4550 512M Graphics Card
and a laptop (Dell Inspiron 600m), which also worked, but with an effort:
Intel Pentium M processor 1.6GHz
512 MB memory
HDD 200 GB
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 Graphics
The general rule is that the higher the picture resolution will be given by the video camera, the more powerful the computer is required. For low resolutions (up to 1280x900) and 15 frames per second, our laptop was quite enough. A large RAM will be useful if you want to draw a large poster in a graphics editor.
and programs:
Apart from the operating system, everything is distributed under a free license.
Here are our picks for today:
Windows XP SP2 Home Edition Rus http://www.microsoft.com/
VLC media player http://www.videolan.org/
GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
for bitmaps InkScape http://www.inkscape.org/
for vector drawings
Tried, but liked it less. It is possible that in your hands it will work as it should:
Media Player Classic (MPC) http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
picked up the video camera every other time
Paint.NET (v. 3.36) http://www.getpaint.net/
no full support for Wacom tablet under Windows XP
ArtWeaver (v. 1.0) http://www.artweaver.de/
tends to give almost all processor resources to the video player, and as a result, they are not enough for drawing
Regards, Pushkin Sergey Viktorovich
Thanks Pushkin. Good solution. I did not know that these two tools (microscope camera + graphic tablet) could be joined. For now I have a low-range camera that can do the job. I also found a paper detailing the same method.
Article Computer-aided drawing system - Substitute for camera lucida
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