Do you mean as a fucussing aid?
No. But, I do not know what a "graincam" is.
It might help if the op told us what digital apparattus, and what the hell those pictures are of
Don't want to break any rules.
If a process is analogue all the way but some digital gear was used in an advisory capacity, is it still analogue?
An led bulb is not digital.I thought I'd posted a rpely earlier but must have forgotten to hit the button:
I couldn't find the incandescent bulb for my Zenith enlarger so used a 10w household led one instead.
Mechanical timer for a focusing aid?
graincam is the name I gave to the pic so I could find it easier on my cluttered desktop.
It's a £2 webcam I ordered from China. Removed the lenses and put the lens housing back as a hood. Gives a better image than I thought it would. Pic is of the edge of the film/perforation.
Next step is to mount it onto something flat.
Will the absence of an IR filter matter much wrt focus?
I cannot see how you will position your widget atop the easel in the same plane the paper will occupy.
It was kind of a brainfart.
Original post was meant to have the title '£2 digital grain magnifier (Prototype)'.
I get to posting the pic, hit 'open' and nothing happened. Try again and still nothing happened.
Then I notice in red lettering the warning about hybrid. Holy whatnot, did some bot just catch the filename of my pic?
I post this thread and there are two pics I thought hadn't uploaded because I got no feedback that they had loaded..
A easy to use grain focuser for old guys like me ? I love it! Genius ! So if I understand, you have a small WiFi camera focused on the projected image, you view this on a phone or tablet for critical focusing?
If I could stand up straight with a phone in my hand to focus my 8x10 enlarger that would be cool. Patent it
Take a tiny camera and drill a hole in the easel mount it. It's worth playing with however you attempt. I use toy IR goggles to work in total darkness . If that's cheating so be it. Someday I will probably be using a cane to get around my darkroom . Any thing that aids the analog process I'm in favor of !Wired, not wifi.
It's a de-lensed webcam. Light from the enlarger shines on the sensor and the image is displayed on my laptop.
My original idea was for a tablet or smartphone that has a front facing camera but even the 'mostly dead' ones were going for over 20 quid. Didn't want to spend that much on something I'd be taking apart and de-lensing as I have a talent for turning mostly dead kit into extremely dead kit.
Now that the concept has been proven, (One crappy image. HA!) I might spring for a mostly dead smartphone/tablet and see how de-lensing it goes.
Take a tiny camera and drill a hole in the easel mount it. It's worth playing with however you attempt. I use toy IR goggles to work in total darkness . If that's cheating so be it. Someday I will probably be using a cane to get around my darkroom . Any thing that aids the analog process I'm in favor of !
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