My built in isight camera is not working since loading mavericks

Can anyone help me please? I can't seem to get the isight built in camera to work on my 27'' imac since I installed Mavericks. First noticed this when using skype but it also doesn't work on facetime either.
Any suggestions.
Thank you
Nick

briannick wrote:...I can't seem to get the isight built in camera to work on my 27'' imac since I installed Mavericks....
If restarting Mac does not resolve the problem, use Disk Utility in OS X Revovery to repair your startup disk.
If the camera is still not working properly, follow Apple's http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 suggestions.
(Over time, Apple has changed the built-in camera's name on newer Macs from "iSight" to "FaceTime" and then to "FaceTime HD." Regardless of the name of your Mac's built-in camera, the same info and troubleshooting applies.)
If the problem the problem continues after using all the above, the last thing you can try is to reinstall OS X 10.9.
If that fails, too, contact Apple or an Apple-Authorized Service Provider for service.
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I have been racking my brains now for about a week over the lack of fuctionality of my isight camera. I bought my MacBook at the end of January, and then, on the 21st March, the camera just stopped working. In PhotoBooth I get the message "in use by another application..", and no other application recognises it.
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