The camera is a Logitech HD Webcam C270 capable of 1280x720 video, with USB2.0:
Modification was very simple.
First I removed the fascia:
I undid the three small screws that hold the front part of the case on and removed it. I then used a drill to increase the size of the hole in the front part of the case to accept a Mogg adaptor I had spare.
I put a little piece of black insulation tape over the LED on the camera board and unscrewed the supplied lens from the sensor housing.
I put the case front and fascia back on and then screwed the Mogg adaptor into the hole I made. I used a little superglue to secure it.
Et voilà!
The proof of course will be as they say in the pudding when I get chance to test the camera with my scope. It's likely that the video the camera produces will be compressed but I will experiment with the settings, and see what old faithful K3CCD Tools can produce with it.
2 comments:
How did this work out? I'm looking at getting this same webcam. Was K3CCD about use it? I've read elsewhere the specs would good but the software setting were a pain. Did you have the same results?
Well unfortunately it didn't work out. I wouldn't buy this camera for astrophotography. I kept getting a colour cast over part of the image, don't know why. I tried it with/without IR block and no success. I also couldn't get the advertised resolution out of it in K3CCD, but I didn't try that hard because of the colour cast.
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