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Hardware Overview: MagniSight CCTV
This video magnifier features a large viewing table, customized settings, auto focus capabilities, freeze image control, and reversal mode for high contrast viewing. A brightness control helps eliminates glare, a tension control assists with vertical motion, and margin stops help with horizontal movement. The MagniSight is one of several different models of CCTVs at the Adaptive Technology Center.
Company Information:
MagniSight, Inc. makes products for people with low vision. Its founder and president, Brian M. Smith, has been visually impaired since age nine with Stargardt's Disease, a form of macular degeneration. The company's Web site contains several resources including a tip sheet on how to use a video magnifier, FAQs about low vision, and Web links to national low vision organizations.