I never thought I'd be asking this but does anyone have a USB "microscope" to suggest that has a decently long working distance and really small head?

[azonenberg@ioc.exchange]

I never thought I'd be asking this but does anyone have a USB "microscope" to suggest that has a decently long working distance and really small head?

I'm thinking about how I'm going to record/livestream my reworkctf v2 playthrough and the microscope I have on the mill is not set up to record video, and I have no easy path to change that.

So I'm wondering about just adding a second macro/closeup view off to one side looking at the work area and hopefully not in the way of anything else. With the microscope, light, milling column, and dust collection it's already gonna look like the inside of a SEM/FIB chamber, what's one more imaging axis? lol

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@azonenberg how small are we talking?

[tnt@chaos.social]

@azonenberg But if you're off-axis, won't depth of field be an issue ?

I don't have a USB one, I'm using a HDMI one as my "daily driver" (lower latency) and although I'm happy with it and it has a good working distance (especially with 0.35x barlow lens added), it's also fairly shallow DoF.

[azonenberg@ioc.exchange]

@tnt If I went with HDMI I'd need a separate capture card but it could be doable.

DOF is always going to be an issue there will be a narrow strip of the area in focus at any given time. But I have the same problem in the actual microscope.