cameras for antique macs
Jason Davies
Hi folks,
I'm using an old Mac Pro to work from (I do have a Macbook air with camera but wifi is erratic and the machine is under-powered). It seems socially and politically impossible to continue without a webcam but I'm getting confusing info about whether webcams can be expected to work. Eg some logitech ones have software that refuses to run because the processor is too old (though it can handle anything I throw at it). I can't tell if the software is necessary or just useful.
Other sources say anything should work at a basic level.
I've tried virtual cameras using my iPhone but Teams and Blackboard Collaborate don't recognise them (boo, this would be perfect).
Is anyone using a (not expensive) webcam on a mac without a built-in camera (eg mac mini) who can say 'yep, this one works fine'. I honestly don't care about picture quality or even the mic. I'm running Mojave not Catalina (it won't run 10.15 at all). The smaller the better as there is not really anywhere on the desk for it (something on a 'stick' that has a small camera would be perfect). I don't want one that sits on the top of the monitor either! (not fussy, am I...)
(wish I'd kept the old FW iSight I had years ago now!)
Ps because they provide me with the Macbook Air, work's position is that they have provided me with a camera so they're not buying another one, which I guess is fair enough but I'm not switching to a slow laptop or spending a fortune just so they can inspect my lack of haircut...
Cheers,
Jason
Jason Davies
Jason Davies
(sorry for confusion of sending a duplicate, please ignore)
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Jason
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Jason P. Davies
Looks good, thank you (but how did you get Catalina running?!)
Thanks,
-Jason
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On 22 Oct 2020 at 16:24:32 BST, cwo...@gmail.com <cwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
I use a Logitech Quckcam Vision Pro camera with my 2009 ish Mac Pro using
Catalina. It has a Tessar lens and microphone. It plugs into the USB socket
on the front of the Mac Pro
It works well on Zoom, gives a better picture quallity than the camera
built into the Apple 27inch screen. I bought it over 10 years ago it was
about £70.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Logitech+Quickcam+Vision+Pro+cameras&t=ffnt&atb=v120-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.macworld.com%2Fimages%2Fnews%2Fgraphics%2F134090-logitechquickcamvisionpro.jpg
Hope this helps
Derek
On Thursday, 22 October 2020 at 15:36:12 UTC+1 Nicholas Holt wrote:
> Hi Jason,
> Just had a quick look on eBay and they’re several 2nd hand iSight
> cameras……..but maybe the lockdown locks should be even less in focus!
> Nick
>
> On 22 Oct 2020, at 12:12, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group <
> sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm using an old Mac Pro to work from (I do have a Macbook air with camera
> but wifi is erratic and the machine is under-powered). It seems socially
> and politically impossible to continue without a webcam but I'm getting
> confusing info about whether webcams can be expected to work. Eg some
> logitech ones have software that refuses to run because the processor is
> too old (though it can handle anything I throw at it). I can't tell if the
> Other sources say anything should work at a basic level.
>
> I've tried virtual cameras using my iPhone but Teams and Blackboard
> Collaborate don't recognise them (boo, this would be perfect).
>
> Is anyone using a (not expensive) webcam on a mac without a built-in
> camera (eg mac mini) who can say 'yep, this one works fine'. I honestly
> don't care about picture quality or even the mic. I'm running Mojave not
> Catalina (it won't run 10.15 at all). The smaller the better as there is
> not really anywhere on the desk for it (something on a 'stick' that has a
> small camera would be perfect). I don't want one that sits on the top of
> the monitor either! (not fussy, am I...)
>
> (wish I'd kept the old FW iSight I had years ago now!)
>
> Ps because they provide me with the Macbook Air, work's position is that
> they have provided me with a camera so they're not buying another one,
> which I guess is fair enough but I'm not switching to a slow laptop or
> spending a fortune just so they can inspect my lack of haircut...
>
> Cheers,
> Jason
>
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Jason P. Davies
Thanks,
-Jason
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Hi Jason,
Just had a quick look on eBay and they’re several 2nd hand iSight cameras……..but maybe the lockdown locks should be even less in focus!
Nick
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm using an old Mac Pro to work from (I do have a Macbook air with camera but wifi is erratic and the machine is under-powered). It seems socially and politically impossible to continue without a webcam but I'm getting confusing info about whether webcams can be expected to work. Eg some logitech ones have software that refuses to run because the processor is too old (though it can handle anything I throw at it). I can't tell if the software is necessary or just useful.
>
> Other sources say anything should work at a basic level.
>
> I've tried virtual cameras using my iPhone but Teams and Blackboard Collaborate don't recognise them (boo, this would be perfect).
>
> Is anyone using a (not expensive) webcam on a mac without a built-in camera (eg mac mini) who can say 'yep, this one works fine'. I honestly don't care about picture quality or even the mic. I'm running Mojave not Catalina (it won't run 10.15 at all). The smaller the better as there is not really anywhere on the desk for it (something on a 'stick' that has a small camera would be perfect). I don't want one that sits on the top of the monitor either! (not fussy, am I...)
>
> (wish I'd kept the old FW iSight I had years ago now!)
>
> Ps because they provide me with the Macbook Air, work's position is that they have provided me with a camera so they're not buying another one, which I guess is fair enough but I'm not switching to a slow laptop or spending a fortune just so they can inspect my lack of haircut...
>
> Cheers,
> Jason
>
>
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Jason Davies
I don't suppose you can send me a link to track them down? I'm not having much luck finding anyone that sounds like them.
I've seen a site (http://dosdude1.com/catalina/) where you download a patch but never had the time to sit down and work through it (also, slightly risky, I've never found these things as simple as they hope and don't want to have an inoperable machine). Thanks for the tip. The machine runs beautifully thanks to SSD on PCIE, extra RAM etc but with a new graphics card, I can't do the 'hold down a key at start-up' routine so the only way to force it to start up from a particular disk is to literally remove all the others physically;) If I can flash it to fix that, it'd be really handy.
cheers,
J
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Cheers,
Jason
Jason Davies
wrote:
> I don't suppose you can send me a link to track them down? I'm not
> having much luck finding anyone that sounds like them.
(https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/macfinder_uk), then I'm good...
Cheers,
Jason