Poor focus on external isight

well, i've read the posts about checking to see if an external isight is functioning properly. i think that mine is; but the focus is poor. when i compare it with the built-in isight on my macbook pro, there's no comparison. i sent the first one back, the new one is exactly the same. doesn't look too bad till you have it side-by-side with the one in the laptop. for the price of this thing, plus the fact that you have to spend $30 to get a plastic mount for my imac, it's a shame.
can anyone else compare the built-in and the external and let me know what they see?
thanks

Hi Gavin,
No, I have the internal on a intel iMac and the external on a Power Mac G5.
Did you get the trial of iGlasses or the full version?
I did give you bad info about the focus. The external has focus, but the internal does not.
The iglasses web site says this:
NOTE: Some cameras will display a different list of settings. Available settings is based on camera capability. For example, the "built-in iSight" does not have "Focus" because that camera doesn't have the ability to control focus.
But, since indeed your problem is with the external then this should not apply. I do not remember which settings are not available in the demo version.
Maybe some else here is using the demo version on an external that could tell us if they have the availability to "focus". The full version certainly does - along with some of those features that, I agree, are pretty "useless" - unless you have more time than sense ;~)
Regards,
John

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