DukeCapture Preferred Peripherals

Document camera

Wolfvision VZ-8 Light

(about $3700)
http://www.wolfvision.com/wolf/port_detail8.html

Site administrator Carlisle Willard, who set one of these up in Griffith, writes:

"The doc cam is rigged so that its VGA output is plugged directly into the
laptop interface cable provided for laptops. The laptop is plugged into an
'external' jack, and a user can shift between the laptop presentation and
the document camera by holding down the Power button for two seconds. Seemed to work very well.

"The VZ-8 Light does not have a bottom-lit platen as its larger cousins do, but the flat plate is designed to provide a neutral white surface with minimal glare, so (the professor) could place her transparency film on the surface and draw on it and it worked pretty much like it would on the projector."


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Microphone

Samson CO1U USB Studio Condenser microphone

(about $100)
http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1810


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Media converter

Canopus ADVC110 Media Converter

(about $250)
http://www.canopus.com/products/ADVC110/index.php

Standard Lectopia digitisers use analog-to-digital capture cards, which means that you can't plug a firewire source such as a miniDV camera directly into the units. However, you can get around this limitation by using a media converter such as the Canopus, which will accept the firewire input and then output to RCA audio and video. On paper it may not be ideal to go from digital to analog and then back to digital, but in practice the quality of content we've captured this way in Lectopia seems to be very good.


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