OT: Computer controlled digital camera?

Any webcam can do this, or you could use a frame grabber and any RS-170 video camera. You don't specify resolution, or if color is required, but you may want to look at

Jeff -

Thanks for the link.

I'm beginning to think that maybe going the "frame grabber" route might be a better way. Do you know of a particular camera and software that you could recommend?

Yes, the resulting photos need to be in color. I have no idea as to the resolution that's needed. The idea is for someone to be able to look at the picture and see what's in the box. I don't even know yet what exactly it is that they're looking for.

The software that's going to control all this (receive the barcode from the scanner, trigger the acquisition of the picture and process and store the picture) will be custom written using Visual basic 6. I've found an OCX that supposedly does frame grabbing (VideoCapX at

Our previous systems used a monochrome camera and I have used both National Instruments, and Data Translation frame grabbers. They work well. The new system I am working on will use the Electronic Imaging USB2.0 camera both for higher performance (resolution and speed) and for lower cost. It will also be programmed under VB6.0 due to some constraints on some legacy portions of our system. I will be using their device drivers.

Is "Electronic Imaging" a brand name? I just googled that and didn't come up with a camera by that name.

It is the

Jeff - Please check your e-mail. I just sent a note to you at the address in your newsgroup post (minus "INVALID").