Help with a web search please

I think I know what you're after. You need a cam with an HDMI interface.. cable and HDMI receiving/decoding source. I'll bet that your laptop has an HDMI interface.. same as your television. My old camera has a vid-out jack and a cable with "yellow" RCA male plug for connecting to older TV's RCA audio/video "in" connections.

I'm sure that you'll find what you need. I'd do a search.. but I'm short on time (gig tonight..) I'll check-back to see if have any luck.

Do you mean something like this?
https://www.simplywholesale.com.au/products/usb-digital-microscope?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=googlepla&variant=16357346561&gclid=COzDlIGj788CFYWivQode9YBJA
Search "USB Digital Microscope".  That should find you what you're looking for.

This is pretty cool

http://www.amscope.com/5x-500x-2mp-8-led-zoom-digital-usb-microscope-endoscope-xp-vista-7-8-mac.html?gclid=COaxw5Wr788CFYUehgod65MBzw

I found and ordered this: Ipevo Ziggi-HD Plus High-Definition USB Document Camera

https://www.ipevo.com/prods/Ziggi-HD_Plus_USB_Document_Camera

All my searches kept leading me to the microscope type solutions

With a document Cam, I can place instructions on the big screen zoom in a bit and read from across the room

Or video capture smaller detail work and grab still shots for a "How I do It" photo posting

My cell cam sux for this

I do not have the bandwidth o play in the video You-Tube world


Thanks for the suggestions

That looks and sounds Cool , i was wondering what the reasoning was for what you where after, you have skills that we would all enjoy learning , i would like to know how people are getting pics (stop frame) to post from there youtube videos

Initially for the shop I was/am still using hand held magnifying glass or loupe to see close detail or read side of tube/can instructions... but I need real good lighting to see the print

Wife got me one of the better large illuminated articulating magnifiers and it works OK but fixed to a bench edge (clamp on)

Recently watched Mark Wahlberg version of SHOOTER and saw the old guy read from a book on a BIG screen and remembered the Denzel movie The Bone Collector with same method to look at crime scene photos

and I totally forgot my days as a podium instructor for the Army, where we used the old "OverHead Projector" a bottom illuminated bed with overhead 90 degree lens that would project, onto a wall/ screen, the clear acetate page with grease pencil writing or drawings

I know for school room teaching the bottom lit ones changed to top lit, so no more need for the clear acetate sheets and now can place a BOOK/printed sheet, or any solid object and project...I never used one

I was certain (my experience was a full 25 years ago) the we now use the cheap web cams to do this presentation and video conferencing work (when not using the built in Laptop cam)


And Yes Virginia, later in the Army, with computers and MS Powerpoint, I did create and Present hundreds of hours of briefings using a computer and Overhead (ceiling mount) or rear (behind screen) projector


"Death By PowerPoint" was a frequent mantra heading to the conference room

That looks and sounds Cool , i was wondering what the reasoning was for what you where after, you have skills that we would all enjoy learning , i would like to know how people are getting pics (stop frame) to post from there youtube videos

getback wrote:That looks and sounds Cool , i was wondering what the reasoning was for what you where after, you have skills that we would all enjoy learning , i would like to know how people are getting pics (stop frame) to post from there youtube videos

Yes, and congrats Phred, on finding what you needed! Eric, Regarding frame-captures from video; this can be done on a computer.. even if it has basic video-editing software. I've never tried it though. I have "Movie Maker" which came with Windows 8 on my laptop. It has a snapshot feature.