Last week, I bought state-of-the-art video camera, iSight for Mac OS X. Made of aluminum. Highest quality of audio (I don’t care) and video. Automatically adjusts white balance, sharpness, color, focus and expoure. 50mm autofocus. CCD sensor with 640x480 resolution. 24-bit color. 30 fps. FireWire.
I even tried this on iChat to set the video conference with my friend in Rochester, NY from my home in Pittsburgh. I am amazed to see how fast the video frames per seconds are (30 fps). Very smoothly, nearly sharp & clear and I don’t see any flickers on video, even when my ASL moves so fast. I can’t believe that it blows videophone away.
Interesting, you can have microphone from iSight to talk directly through iChat rather than using an old fashioned telephone. Remember it’s free to use eyes and ears through digital audio and video.
I found the cool add-on application for iSight: iGlasses (see the picture above), which allow you to control iSight video confiriguation: Standard, Extra & Super Bright, Enhanced, Black & White, Sepia, Night Vision and Macro Focus. It’s great if you are using in very dark places.
iCamShare is an application name can allow to record video clips and save them as movies or still photos. Found via website, and I haven’t even try this.
I also tried Delicious Library (see previous entry) by using iSight to scan in front of the bar code from books, movies and games to pulls out the information from web (Amazon.com) about your title, including a thumbnail image of the cover, Amazon’s rating, price and description of the item, to store into your inventory. It is very addicted to collect info into application, I wonder: Could Delicious Library share/import my inventories into my web site?
Since Apple introduced FireWire as trademark name, and I also seen PC have yet another IEEE 1394 like FireWire. Since I don’t have FireWire on my PC desktop, I am wondering: Will iSight work on PC?
A person called me 'first class' of technology boy.
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