

The IPEVO Ziggi-HD is a compact USB plug-in camera with a nice heavy base and a 5 megapixel camera.

But recently, I came across an inexpensive one which is being promoted to educators. Most of the ones I have seen have seemed too expensive. A document camera is designed to be connected to a computer or sometimes directly to a digital projector. I have seen document cameras of various sorts at conferences. Mounting a camera on a tripod could do the job, but tripods tend to be bulky, and I didn't want to do a big setup each time I needed a photo. All of the handheld cameras I've used have suffered from my shaky hands. However, I have been using all sorts of options for images of physical objects. Planned demo at the December 2013 meeting of the NatickFOSS user group.Ĭapturing images for demonstrations at NatickFOSS is very easy when the images are screen captures (like the one above, actually).
