piper1
(Kevin Rodden)
March 30, 2021, 8:35pm
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Hi thank for allowing me to join the your forum.
I am really interested in fitting a camera to my machine but to be honest i don’t know which one would be best suited to my machine.
I have a 60w Chinese Red and Black machine.
Really would appreciate any help IN choosing a camera.
Am i right in thinking the lower the angle of degree the better the camera
Thank you
Kev
Rick
(Technical Evangelist)
March 30, 2021, 9:31pm
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Welcome Kevin,
We have been asked this a time or two.
To answer this question requires one additional piece of information: The height above the bed that you plan to mount the camera.
LightBurn now has a helper that will do the ugly math for you. Go to Help > Camera Selection Help and the software will use the current workspace size by default, and show you the minimum mounting heights for all the cameras we sell:
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This number is the absolute minimum required for the camera to see the whole working area. You will need to allow a little …
We also have a write-up in our new, in-progress documentation in the ‘Using a camera with LightBurn ’ section: Redirecting...
piper1
(Kevin Rodden)
March 31, 2021, 6:34pm
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Thank you for the reply still have a couple of concerns getting this wrong.
I’ve a little diagram regarding my machine sizes hope it might help, thank you Kev
Really sorry i have had to edit the picture one of the mesurements was wrong.
Rick
(Technical Evangelist)
March 31, 2021, 7:33pm
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Which OS are you running? When I plug your numbers in, I get the following.
I am not sure what you are asking. Here is similar information presented a little differently, which may help.
To answer this question requires one additional piece of information: The height above the bed that you plan to mount the camera.
LightBurn now has a helper that will do the ugly math for you. Go to Help > Camera Selection Help and the software will use the current workspace size by default, and show you the minimum mounting heights for all the cameras we sell:
[image]
This number is the absolute minimum required for the camera to see the whole working area. You will need to allow a little …
piper1
(Kevin Rodden)
March 31, 2021, 8:14pm
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Thank you for the reply I’m using windows 10
system
(system)
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