Anyone have a web cam they want to sell? Is there a way to make an iSight work?

[The Grim Ninja]

I have a space Logitech C920 I'm not using. No idea what a reasonable price would be.

[August West]

The second one wouldn't work at all. The first, maybe? Probably not. I'll need the camera to be recognized as an input device on my Mac so video conferencing software will see it.

Yesterday night, I got the idea of setting up an old iPhone 5s to use as a webcam with my recently purchases mac mini. Your point above was one thing I found to pay attention to. I also happened to have an iphone tripod mount and a small tripod, and will be setting that up today to sit behind my monitor, level with the top, as an attachable web cam would.

I downloaded EpocCam Free onto the iphone, and EpocCam Viewer on the mini. Tried wireless and it worked, but ultimately switched to usb-lighning to test latency issues and get power. The last thing I did was to check that it worked with webex, and it did. I haven't tried zoom or others yet. There are "commercials" to links that will pop up on the free app, and there is no audio. I will get the $8 pro version to get rid of the pop ups and to add microphone access.

Be aware that with Mojave+, 3rd party usb cams don't work with Apple native apps like facetime and photobooth, or so the dev said. In practice it was true that those apps did not display the video, but the viewer app and webex did.. Also you could not be running the viewer and the teleconference app at the same time, or there would only be video in the viewer.

Another note is that NDI HX Camera and NDI tools are offered free since this week. It looked really cool, but the mac controller app sucked, lesser than the PC version and I couldn't discern a method to switch the camera to different outputs (apps) on Mac as you could on PC. If I was using a PC, I'm sure I would be testing that. I might actually fire up VMware fusion to test it out.

I'll chime back in as I discover things, but if I were you, I'd probably take Grimmie up on his generous offer.

Best of luck friend. Economy sucks, but you've got skills.

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I just tested a 400 to 800 adapter with an iSight. Then added an 800 to thunderbolt adapter to test with my computer.

Definitely works. It was low light and I need to figure out how to mount to my screen.

[M A V I C]

mspace wrote:
I just tested a 400 to 800 adapter with an iSight. Then added an 800 to thunderbolt adapter to test with my computer.

Definitely works. It was low light and I need to figure out how to mount to my screen.

Thanks for checking.