iSight

JimiMac

Does anyone here have the iSight camera?

If so, how do you find it?

Would it be suitable for using with Skype?

I remember reading something about a new model. Any thoughts on the idea of buying one now?

Peteer

HI JimiMac,

Got one here. Find it great, no problems except in low light when picture can be poor. Have used it to New York, London, Cork and so on. Sometimes bandwith can give grieve with the sound dropping for a while.

As per Skype, thats voice only, right? If thats the case I'm sure that the iSight will act as a microphone source for this. Haven't tried it as I have a built in mic.

Remember that Skype is P2P and hogs your connection so that others can piggyback and vice-versa for your connection you are hogging others.

Best of luck.
Peter

Maoltuile

JimiMac wrote:

Does anyone here have the iSight camera?

If so, how do you find it?

Would it be suitable for using with Skype?

I remember reading something about a new model. Any thoughts on the idea of buying one now?

Skype for Mac is still only beta, and doesn't yet have webcam functionality.

iSight itself *rocks*, expensive but you get what you paid for. Under Tiger, the promised improvements (conference videpo call among several people) will be a killer app.

The 'new model' was someone mixing up whispers pre the announcement of the new improved codecs to make this happen - the existing one will be around for a long while from the looks of things.

Urban Weigl

Best webcam I have owned so far, and because it uses Firewire, it should use less CPU than an USB 2.0-based camera. It will work as just a microphone as well.

To be honest, my only gripe would be the price, but what is certainly true with the iSight is that you get what you pay for.

SteveFE

Peteer wrote:

HI JimiMac,

Got one here. Find it great, no problems except in low light when picture can be poor. Have used it to New York, London, Cork and so on. Sometimes bandwith can give grieve with the sound dropping for a while.

As per Skype, thats voice only, right? If thats the case I'm sure that the iSight will act as a microphone source for this. Haven't tried it as I have a built in mic.

Remember that Skype is P2P and hogs your connection so that others can piggyback and vice-versa for your connection you are hogging others.

Best of luck.
Peter

The low light thing can be fixed with a shareware plug - iGlasses which has a time-limited demo download to try it out. Pretty neat.

Skyscraper

Yes, I have one and it is a grand camera. It works great with iChat. If you want to do any video conferencing, you need Broadband. I tried that out with a friend in Flordia and the quality was great. I agree that in low lighting it isn't the best, so I got a Griffin light that fit around the iSight, it add more light to the person looking into the iSight.

It won't work with SKYPE as it doesn't have video conferencing, the microphone in iSight can be use mind with SKYPE.

SteveFE

Skyscraper wrote:

If you want to do any video conferencing, you need Broadband. I tried that out with a friend in Flordia and the quality was great.

It works *just* with 64k ISDN. I've spoken to my old man in New Mexico several times (lucky b*****d's got 4Mb cable in his building). The other end has to sit still though