Re: Stereo VCR?

[P3D John W Roberts <roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 18:34:42 -0500
>From: P3D John Bercovitz <bercov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Stereo VCR?

>You know, Supercircuits (on the www) has a variety of dirt-cheap CCD 
>cameras on PC boards.  They're plenty small enough that you could mount 
>them at the correct spacing (~65mm).  They have video (and some also 
>have audio) out.  I don't think they stock much so you may have to wait 
>for a boat to come in from Asia but the ones I bought for work perform 
>well.  They're in the 100 to 200 mA range at 9 to 15 volts.  Goodly
>number of lines, also - approximates S, I think.
 
The really small ones I've seen use "pinhole" optics. Are these like that?
That would tend to produce a "fisheye" effect, and some very interesting
results in stereo. :-)

John R


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