video camera without autofocus

[Jason Jay Stevens]

I'm looking for an HD webcam or other simple HD video camera that does not have autofocus. And it has to be Mac compatible : ) .

Does anybody know of such a device?

--Jason

[SWiT]

I turn autofocus off on the 1080p winbook webcam I use in Robot Knife Fight.  I installed a control panel app in Ubuntu that allows control of focus, exposure, etc.  Have you looked for a more advanced camera control panel in OS X or a third party utility?

[spokeNine]

The one third party utility I've come across is Macam, which doesn't seem to have been updated recently, which is unfortunate because webcams come and go so quickly.

For this project, I finally just ported my software to PC, and found a Logitech HD cam that has a pretty good utility. So far so good.