Case Study #1

Problem:  Bill Plummer, Animal Science department, had a dying Microscope Camera.  He needed some way to record Bull Test samples so that they could be posted as short instructional videos to a website.

Solution:  The department purchased a video camcorder with an internal hard drive with a lens adapter kit for a microscope:

JVC GZ-MC30U Hard Drive Camcorder 

Microscope Lens Adapter Kit from   http://microscope-store.com/

This camcorder and lens arrangement delivers clear and crisp images that are recorded to an internal hard drive in MPEG2 format. The movies can then be easily transferred to a computer via USB2 then either posted directly to a web site or edited and archived.

Note:  Camcorder shuts down after 5 minutes if not in the record mode so a separate video camera might still be needed for normal lab work usage.