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tritonus · Jul 12, 2003, 09:08 AM

Title says it all. Thanks.

MaxPower2k3 · Jul 12, 2003, 09:58 AM

the only digital photo cameras with Firewire are SLRs and far more expensive than a cheap firewire camcorder, and will give much worse results since digital photo cams are not intended to be used as video cams (and professional-level cameras with firewire probably lack that feature completely)

tritonus · Jul 12, 2003, 10:04 AM

Originally posted by MaxPower2k3:
the only digital photo cameras with Firewire are SLRs and far more expensive than a cheap firewire camcorder, and will give much worse results since digital photo cams are not intended to be used as video cams (and professional-level cameras with firewire probably lack that feature completely)

I read a thread about connecting using USB photo cameras in iChat AV. So, if that works indeed, what about a USB digital photo cam that has basic movie capturing. I'm thinking Canon Ixus II or Canon Ixus 400 here.

Axo1ot1 · Jul 12, 2003, 05:46 PM

Many consumer DV cameas have multi-megapixel photo shooting capability. Those will cetainly work with iChat.

tritonus · Jul 13, 2003, 04:03 AM

Originally posted by Axo1ot1:
Many consumer DV cameas have multi-megapixel photo shooting capability. Those will cetainly work with iChat.

What about the other way around? A digital photo cam would do for me, I don't need a DV camera.

Angus_D · Jul 13, 2003, 06:49 AM

I got it to work with my l'Espion lame miniature thing and the USB hack. It's a bit flakey, but it can be made to work.

MaxPower2k3 · Jul 13, 2003, 09:32 AM

Originally posted by tritonus:
What about the other way around? A digital photo cam would do for me, I don't need a DV camera.

you would need a camera that could send the video over USB in realtime, which not all can do. My Canon (PowerShot S30) can do this, but only with a windows-only Canon program that controls the camera through the computer. I don't believe it will work as a regular USB webcam. Perhaps you should just get a digital camera and a cheap webcam?

Weezer · Jul 13, 2003, 10:37 AM

My Fuji finepix 4800z has webcam support, but I can't get it to work on a mac

palmberg · Jul 14, 2003, 04:17 PM

I've got a friend who's going to try to connect his Canon G3 to iChatAV on his Cube using the iChatUSBCam application enhancer module. I'll report back on our success, or lack thereof.

tritonus · Jul 15, 2003, 12:59 AM

Originally posted by palmberg:
I've got a friend who's going to try to connect his Canon G3 to iChatAV on his Cube using the iChatUSBCam application enhancer module. I'll report back on our success, or lack thereof.

Thanks!

palmberg · Jul 15, 2003, 09:39 AM

Originally posted by palmberg:
I've got a friend who's going to try to connect his Canon G3 to iChatAV on his Cube using the iChatUSBCam application enhancer module. I'll report back on our success, or lack thereof.

Sadly, it's a no-go.

Not sure of all the details from his end, but it didn't work. He's going to pick up a USB Webcam somewhere and go with that, it sounds like....