ISight making clicking sound

I just bought an iSight yesterday for my PowerBook, and it seems to be emmiting a faint clicking sound. It took me a few minutes to figure out what the noise was, but when I put my ear to the iSight, it was clear that the sound was coming from that. Is this normal?

Hello Graham Hall1,
As Ian Bickerstaffe posted, the noise is the electro-mechanical cam focus and is a normal noise, but...
It should not be doing it continously. This usually occurs when an object is too close or if the background has an unusually bright light source, such as a bright lamp shinning into the cam or perhaps an window w/bright light coming in. You will also, for a flicker, lose sound when the cam does focus. Normal, but should not be more than a couple of times until it finds focus and then settles down.
Respectfully,
Bill Gallagher

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