Telescope Reviews: Re: analog or digitial TV for mallincam

Rusty,
Gavin and I use the Imaging source video converters. Check out Gavins fantastic images in the image thread here or in his photo file in the Mallincam yahoo group. What you see posted is what we get up on the laptop screen via the Imaging source video converter. They are one excellent system although not the cheapest but it comes with software called "IC" capture which lets you record and adjust image brightness,contrast,colour as well as lots of other things via handy slider bars at the top of the menue. They come with either firewire or USB2 output models and composite and s-video inputs. I think the USB2 is all you need for the Mallincam. I use the USB2 version and Gavin uses the firewire version. Easy to use and you don't need capture cards, all you do is load the supplied software onto the computer and you are done. When you want to use it you just boot up the laptop, plug the USB2 into it, plug the Mallincam s-video input into the converter box, and open the software up. The image will appear on your screen in real time and the IC capture software menue is at the top ready for you to make the adjustments and record your images. I don't know anything else but will provide the links for them. Gavin if he reads this post may chime in with a few sujestions as he is far more experienced with these than me but from what I have used they are excellent converters with excellent purpose designed software for video systems. They also don't compress the output signal to the PC so I from what I understand is you get a far better picture.
http://www.theimagingsource.com/en/products/converters/dfgusb2lt/overview/
http://www.theimagingsource.com/en/products/converters/dfg13941e/overview/
Gavin has been comparing the live picture on his laptop using one of these converters and they are comparable to the images he gets on his 7inch colour CRT Speco.

Regards Matt.

Edited by cold space (08/06/08 06:24 AM)

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