Homebrew PCBs

>> David Wrote:
>>
>> Try one of those 'beauty cams' - they have
>> a fixed 200x magnification, and send out
>> composite video
>> <SNIP>

> ST wrote:
> 
> but composite is worse than 640x480, no?
> Do you have an example image?

Composite is possibly worse than 640x480
(but could be as good as 720x512 depending)
but there is EVERY possibility that the
CCD in the beauty cams is capable of >400
TV lines.

There is also every chance than a crappy
CMOS web cam - although putting out 640x480
PIXELS can only resolve about 200 lines.

How many lands/pixels a camera has and how
many lines they can resolve (kinda like how
much the pixels bleed into each other) is
very different.

If you are going to compare a 5 megapixel
digital camera to a TV.  The digi will win.
If you are going to compare a TV to an
average webcam the TV will more than likely
win.