Why Apple stopped manufacturing their very high-quality 1394 FireWire auto-focus web camera is beyond logic. You CAN still find decent, used Apple iSight cams at Amazon or find a deal on an iSight on eBay. Otherwise you're left dinking around with any of hundreds of old, discontinued webcams made for Windows and fiddling with Macam or IOXperts drivers hoping for a combination that will work. Those that claim to be USB 1.1 compatible in their Specification listings may have utterly abysmal frame-rates on USB 1.x or show NO image at all, even though Apple's System Profiler may recognize the camera exists on the USB 1.1 bus. Modern high-resolution UVC cams simply WILL NOT WORK on old 800mhz or less Macs, who's slow and incompatible USB 1.x speed ports are FOURTY times slower that USB 2.0. WEBCAMS FOR OBSOLETE MACS? OSX 10.2 or OSX 10.3 PANTHER? I'm more interested in iMovie and FaceTime comparability, Final Cut Pro is secondary.Well, researching I found this: Thanks! I saw that, but was wondering what people here actually use.
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