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Have a hand-held, near field, low cost camera. See pic below of it upside down.
USB is power supply only. Image out is the red video cable. Audio out yellow

Calling it a #MouseCamera.

How do I go about replacing the lens with one that will focus at ~3 times the current text-lens distance?

Seeking a large field of view on large TV screen.
Which would make whole phrases of text readable. As opposed to several characters from 1 word.