"Derek Hawkins" <someone@somewhere.com>

wrote in message news:pMl7c.489$oF.10319@eagle.america.net...

> I'm looking for a camera that when hooked up to a monitor could aid in the

> drilling of printed circuit boards. It doesn't even have to be color.

> Basically, the effective magnification would have to be about twice (or

> more) than that in the following link;

>

> http://image.pbase.com/u41/eldata/large/27140910.CRW_8443_1.jpg

A simple cheap single-element "close-up lens" fitted to the front of

almost any video camera with a zoom lens should do what you want...

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David Ruether

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