Comments on: A Skype and Mac-friendly alternative to iSight

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:17:25 +0000

Will: on webcams, most zooming is just software blowing up the pixels bigger.. no new information is added to the picture fyi.. still shots (along with some sweet effects and even "green screening" backdrops) are great in photo booth in your applications folder... or if not, get it from someone else's application folder lol

By: Christopher Bovee

Christopher Bovee — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:24:42 +0000

i just got my fusion off ebay after i saw the mac store in the uk selling them. there must be something up for the brits to sell a logitech in the apple store... sure enough, skype, yahoo and ichat all see it *boo yaa* i went to the only compusa close to me as it was in the clearance sale of the chatper 11 they filed and i bought a cheap CompUSA brand USB EHCI card and the system profilers says it's running at 480mbps, the firewire on this mac only gets 400 itself! great way to save some cash while adding usb ports. this is great advice for people who want a webcam for the mac (I had to upgrade to 10.5.2 anyway... so this is actually pretty nice)

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:49:33 +0000

Hi Mike. While it certainly seems that the Fusion and the Vision work fine under 10.4.11 or 10.5, these cameras do have UVC support. The STX does not, and therefore is "unsupported" by Mac OS X. Which product ID does your STX have? According to this list 2 out of three PIDs should be working with the macam driver. Are any other apps open and trying to use the camera? Do you have more than one type of driver installed? Try the Skype forums; others are having various issues with this camera.

By: mh

mh — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:14:59 +0000

Just got a Logitech QuickCam STX and downloaded Macam 0.9.1 driver for OX X 10.4.11. Camera works fine until I try to use Skype -- sound is fine but video is choppy. It seems to be a problem with video scanning because the top 10% of the screen is fine, then I get a variety of blotchy colours (sepia seems to be a favourite), images moves from left to right and back agiain, then returns to normal. Just really random behaviour!! Has anybody else had this problem and managed to fix it, and if so, how?

cheers
MIKE

By: jz

jz — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:37:22 +0000

So is anyone using the QuickCam Ultra Vision or UV SE w/ 10.4.11? I just updated this morning and am thinking of grabbing this cam since some family recently bought new MB's w/ isight and want to video chat. Can't believe I'm behind the times these days....hahahahaha.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:13:46 +0000

I have just bought the Logitech Fusion webcam for my old Ibook G4, running on MAC OS 10.4.10. The camera worked right out of the box through skype. However, the install CD is ignored, meaning I cannot download the software for the webcam. I.e - i get a picture but I can't zoom in, take stills etc. Is there any way I can get the software to work on my computer? (I am a bit of a novice, so I don't know how stupid a question that is!)
Any help would be apreciated, even if its a simple "no. Don't waste your time." Thanks.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:47:27 +0000

Will or anyone that can help,

I have a Logitech UltraVision and applied your fix to Tiger and everything worked great.... until I upgraded to Leopard... Now the video is odd - I get severe flickering in Skype on my end, and no picture on the other, and in iChat although it identifies the camera and the camera light comes on, no image ever shows up... Any ideas? I was thinking of attempting to roll back your changes in Leopard but after re-reading this thread (it was a while ago that I did the fix) I realized you only replaced the audio driver so I'm guessing that should not affect the video at all. Anyway any assistance would be appreciated.

Aaron

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:48:28 +0000

Good news; thanks for the update nevrozel.

By: nevrozel

nevrozel — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:40:21 +0000

I can confirm that the Ultra Vision works GREAT with Leopard! It has all the drivers, BOTH video and audio. I just plugged it in and in worked like a breeze. Apple did a great job this time! ;)

By: Tim Kraan

Tim Kraan — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:32:30 +0000

Any update on how the Logitech Quickcam Ultra Vision works with Leopard?