Webcam tips

The guys at Strobist posted today a series of tips on how to get the most out of your webcam. Very interesting. One thing that still is puzzling me is why after I installed Windows XP on our 17 inch iMac with BootCamp 1.2, the quality of the webcam image on Windows is better than what I’m getting on MacOS!! Really strange.

The Windows drivers that come with BootCamp make a USB emulation of the built in iSight, and perhaps there is either some color correction done during the emulation, or what would be most ironic, that the color correction algorithms on MacOS are actually trying too hard to compensate and end up making the image worse.

That iMac’s setting is problematic for video conferencing because the iMac is in the opposite side to a window, and facing the wall. The back light coming through the window creates a dark webcam pic. If anyone has solved this problem, I’d love to know.

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