Must it be a USB-Device? I have one of those mini "Spy" cams, and with a screwable lens, and if you screw it to the right level it has a very near focus (I am not a photograph, so I hope the "focus" is what I think is a focus :-) ). To watch this on a computer you need of course a video card with s-video input. I have it connected to a TV, because I don't have a svideo in, but anyway: On the TV the image is bigger. Here, I made a photo for you: http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5804/pic0002mg0.jpg It's a mainboard of a bricked ipaq h3660. Here is the rest oft the mainboard (red circle indicates where I took the magnified photo): http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/9153/pic0008wx4.jpg Sorry for the bad quality, but in one hand I held the video camera, and in the other the crappy 25 euro digital photocamera :-) In reality its much sharper. A stand would be good. At work we have a cheap USB microscope (about 40 - 50 Euro) , and it sucks! we bought it to take photos of solderings, but the images are not really good. I place the pcb on a scanner, and just scan it, and the images are far better! the only problem with the scanner is if there are bigger components on the pcb the image gets unsharp because the pcb doesn't lay flat on the glass. Greetings, Stefan
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