Video-chatting is still a bit of a novelty for me.īut Amazon is selling the Quickcam for $70 right now, which considering that it comes with a mic, that's really a pretty awesome deal.Īnyone figures out how to increase the frame rate on the Quickcam, please post it. I wouldn't even buy one when they were new, cause there was no way I felt I was going to get $150 worth out of it. Biggest downside is that you have to pay way too much just to get a used one. I still say the Quickcam has a better picture, but the iSight is obviously faster. And it's not that much cheaper and has no mic. It's so grainy, though, particularly in low light. The iMage USB Webcam has pretty terrible image quality, but it's 15 fps. The XBox Live Vision is fine for $30, but it's about 7-8 fps and image quality isn't super great. I tried three other cameras and settled on the Quickcam 9000. Is anyone aware of a third party application or driver that makes it possible to at least adjust the resolution on this thing? It'd still be worth the money if I could at least increase the resolution and get a quality picture.Any possibility that Apple will incorporate some kind of basic hardware control for generic webcams in future revisions of Leopard? Basically I could have picked up most any UVC compliant camera for $20 or $30 and got the same result. Without the software to drive the camera, you are stuck with a resolution of 320 x 240 in iChat, a resolution of 640 x 480 in PhotoBooth, a maximum of only 5 fps, no auto-focus and no 'HD'.

Unfortunately the software is Windows compatible only-Logitech does not have a Mac version of the software.

Unfortunately, despite multiple postings on various online forums that claim that this camera works on OS X, I have found that this camera has only very limited functionality on any Mac.Īlmost every feature of the QuickCam Pro 9000 is entirely software driven. I chose this camera because it's received great reviews and has an awesome feature set (including 1600 x 1200 resolution at up to 30 fps). I just purchased a QuickCam Pro 9000 for my Powerbook (17' 1.33 GHz PowerPC with Leopard) since my laptop has no built-in iSight.

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