This camera isn't the most sophisticated around, and I might have overpaid for it (I spent $120 at a local computer store); it has an uncalibrated scale focus, no display, and an optical viewfinder akin to the ones found on Brownie cameras fifty years ago, lacking even parallax correction frames in the viewfinder. There's no flash, no memory card slot, and no tripod mount. On the other hand, it has a self timer, a built in sequence mode, and the settings for resolution and image quality can be changed when the camera is plugged into my computer, giving me a bit more flexibility that I'd have gotten for $50 to $70 with a JamCam or similar bottom end DSC -- plus, it's a much better web camera than the Alaris WeeCam I had previously. With 4 MB of internal Flash memory (non-volatile, it will store images even with dead or no batteries), I can take up to 77 shots at the highest resolution and quality; when docked I can also record AVI movies, including sound if the computer has a microphone. And, like all web cameras, I can use it for video conferencing, motion detection, etc.
I haven't made any conversions for use with my telescope; that will probably remain the exclusive domain of the WeeCam, since its lens easily unscrews completely off the D mount to allow me to use prime focus or eyepiece projection to place the image on the chip, while the WebCam Go has the lens locked in place with only 270 degrees of focus travel.
This page is for posting the images I've taken with this camera that
I consider worthy of public view; these will be thumbnailed to speed loading,
and will also include information about the image and the setting that
led to it.
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Mystery Image |
Intimate View |
Highway Blur |
Plastic Easter |
Ground Cover |
The Germinator |
Veatch |
Lake Washington Sunrise |
Rhodies |
Sand Glyphs |
Drift Pool |