Used this app to begin with, don’t quite remember what OS X version I had at the time, reported to work on 10.10 though.

I am sure there are more and maybe better options – feel free to add them in the comments. Right now the list of OS X apps looks like below. If a USB webcam is used, the images could be fed into a computer too – very nice. I need to 3D print an adapter to make a regular digital camera fit the tube, but once that’s done, it should be possible to take some really nice pictures there. LED lighting, mounting rails for the work bench – and one of them has a photo tube.

These are extremely nice – intended for medical research, electronics production etc – they have extremely good optics and mechanical construction. On a related note, during the fall I got a few (an auction lot that contained a bunch of units.) Leica stereo microscopes ( M60 and MZ6).

Over the past year I have tried some video software, and still have a few on the try-these-out-list. but this is in part due to the lack of good OS X software for use with generic USB microscopes. To be honest it hasn’t been used much (it did come in handy during the repair of the BK Precision LCR meter though). The microscope is actually pretty nice given its ca USD 60 price point, with decent picture quality, a sturdy stand (even though it’s somewhat of a pain adjusting it) and a built-in adjustable light source. Here the uvcvideo driver was correctly assigned to the hardware.Got myself an Andonstar 2 megapixel USB microscope about a year ago, mainly just for testing it out, and having it readily available when some repair project demanded it. I: If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 0 Cls=0e(video) Sub=02 Prot=00 Driver=uvcvideo I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=0e(video) Sub=01 Prot=00 Driver=uvcvideo Just for comparison here's the output for my webcam on one of the laptops: T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=03 Cnt=02 Dev#= 19 Spd=480 MxCh= 0ĭ: Ver= 2.00 Cls=ef(misc ) Sub=02 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=ff Driver=(none)īut it seems based on it's USB ID we're unable to link a driver to it. I recently got an Aigo GE-5 digital microscope and sadly it is not recognised by any of my OSs as a camera.

Driver for usb microscope camera