Re: twain, digital camera as web cam, again

Paul:

There's a feature in Paint Shop Pro that might
be what you're looking for. The following is from
the v7 help file:

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3 Use the Single Exposure Operations panel to view and work with individual
images:

· Click the left and right arrows below the preview box to scroll through the
images. Each picture's exposure number, time and date of creation, and preview
appear. (The preview appears only if you downloaded the thumbnails.)

· If you want to take a picture and see it immediately, position the camera,
click Take Picture, and then click Get Preview.

· If you chose not to download the thumbnails and now want to see a preview of
the selected image, click Get Preview.

· Click Delete to delete the image from the camera.

· Click Open in PSP to open the image in the Paint Shop Pro workspace.

· Click Save to Disk to save the image on your hard disk without opening it.
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In particular the "If you want to take a picture..." bullet point
sounds promising.

I have no use for this function so can't speak to
how well it works.


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I know people have asked this before, but I haven't seen a satisfactory
answer.

What do I need to do, what kind of camera do I have to buy, to use it as
a web cam? I need to take portrait photos, still pictures (I don't need
movies), directly into the computer where I can handle them with software
that acts through TWAIN.

An actual webcam works fine in this manner, but the picture quality is
just too low. I need better resolution, focus, color, etc. Not
super-duper, but definitely better than I can get with a standard webcam.

I've seen ID photo cameras for sale, but they are expensive and come with
lot of specialty software that I have no use for. A $100 digicam would be
great, if only it came with a TWAIN driver.

You can connect any compact digital camera to a PC and see on screen what
the camera has on its LCD. Likewise the same for a DSLR that has live
view.

S.

I do not believe that is the case.

I have here a Casio EX-Z55, a Samsung L73, and a Kodak Easyshare. If there's
a way to make that happen with any of those cameras, please tell me what it
is.





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