title: SimpleCV basic getImage debugging
body: <p>I just successfully installed SimpleCV on my Windows 7 Dell XPS. I have a HP Deluxe Webcam KQ246AA plugged into it.  I have navigated to the SimpleCV Shell.  I am trying to run the tutorial to take and show a picture from the webcam.  From the SimpleCV shell I execute the following lines:</p>
  
  <pre><code>cam = Camera()
  img = cam.getImage()
  img.show()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After the first command, the light on my webcam turns on.  After the second command nothing happens.  After the third command I get some text output: <code>&lt;SimpleCV.Display.Display instance at 0x038D2A58&gt;</code>  and a window pops up that is all black, and then that new window does the classic windows "Not Responding" and asks me if I want to force close.  When I close the Shell, the light on the webcam turns off.</p>
  
  <p>I have also tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>img.save('C:/path/to/file/name.jpg');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which saved the picture to the right location, but the picture was just all black.  I guess that the picture is not being captured correctly, but I don't know why that causes the <code>img.show()</code> command to crash.</p>
  
  <p>I tried referencing the SimpleCV docs (http://doc.simplecv.org/), but the link appears to be non-existent.  I think I would really benefit from SimpleCV.  Does anyone have any suggestions how I would debug this problem?  Or, where is the documentation?  I would at least to verify that I can capture pictures correctly from the webcam.  Then get started with some of the other functionality.</p>
  
  <p>** EDIT **</p>
  
  <p>I installed the SimpleCV package from the .deb downloaded from their website onto my Thinkpad X61s running Ubuntu 10.10.  5 minutes for installationn.  I plugged in a very generic webcam (not even sure what brand it is) and repeated the 3 lines of code above.  I DID see the picture take from my webcam come up.  So everything worked on the linux, and was very simple.  </p>