USB camera for Ti Powerbook
Hi,
Just got iChat and Skype set up at work (anyone else notice the quality difference between the two? its drastic)
Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a camera to use with my old titanium powerbook when I'm out of the office. Although there are threads on here that discuss which usb cameras work with OS X, I couldn't find one that mentioned cameras that will clip onto my screen nicely. All of the PC ones I found have too big a clip for the powerbook screen.
Any suggestions?
thanks
I ended up settling for a Genius Webcam EYE. Bought this in New Zealand for NZ$20.
It clips onto the lid pretty well. It's slightly loose, as its also made to accommodate thicker lids found on PCs. Can be fixed by slipping something like a card behind the camera's clip.
The picture quality is reasonable, but nothing great. I'm not sure how much of this is down to my powerbook (it is an old 667mhz g4 after all). I get considerable lag with it, but it suits my requirements okay. I'll have to test it out on the g5 sometime.
Comes with OS X drivers, but needed to use the Ecamm iChatUSBCam (US$ 9.95) to get it working with iChat. The benefit of this is being able to also send a video of my mac's desktop over the web.
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