Lenses or microscope?

[yazan.doha]

Hallo Everyone,
My project is to detect glue in a small nozzle.
Currently I am using PiCamera v2 but the photos are not perfect so I would like to ask if it is better to use a microscope or a PiCamera with lenses like (Sony IMX477 & CS Lens)?
and is it possible to just connect a microscope to Jetson Nano?
How can I choose the microscope or lenses?

Thank you very much.

[AastaLLL]

Hi,

IMX477 should work with Nano.
However, we don’t have too much experience with microscopes.
It’s recommended to check with the camera vendor to see if they support Jetson first.

Thanks.

[yazan.doha]

Thank you,
but do you think, that IMX477 will help me to focus on the glue correctly?
There are many kinds of IMX477 cameras, is 12.3MP sufficient??

[linuxdev]

I won’t guarantee any of these will work, but there are a lot of USB “inspection” microscopes which are likely what you want. Just make sure it doesn’t require any special driver since a generic USB driver is very likely able to do what you want without special effort. An inspection microscope search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=usb+inspection+microscope&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGq9zP4O75AhUsMDQIHaCkCQMQ1TV6BQgCEIsC&biw=1858&bih=824&dpr=1