This video is slightly better. Wonder if I can grab the best frame from it 🤔
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surprised you can't get a thing that's like a suction cup attached to a length of optical fibre
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Well you’re talking about 2 things... a prime focus ccd camera (they run $60-$300 for basic ones)!and just a simple iPhone holder. I’ve ordered the latter. Just plain fiber isn’t a meaningful thing to insert there. You want to convert image to electrical signal before moving it.
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ah okay i was just imagining something that would suck onto the surface of the phone with a lens that would aim into a bundle of fibre that would go out to another lens onto the eyepiece
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I’m not sure optic fiber alone can be used that way. It needs lasers I thought? It’s not a sensor. Sounds like you’re suggesting piping the live photons passively from the image plane elsewhere. Like diverting rainwater from roof with gutters?
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Well endoscopes have active lighting going one way and the target is close enough for reflective illumination
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I think your idea could possibly work if the tejescopecend had some boosting like with a photomultiplier tube of some sort
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obviously there would be an interpolation problem packing the cylinders at the ends but at the same time it doesn't seem to matter for endoscopes
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Yeah even 1 megapixel implies a 1000x1000 square bundle if each fiber is one pixel. Unless each fiber can be more than 1 pixel
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