Video Devices

Some Camera Reports From Our Friends

Processor: G5 Dual

Submitted by: Peter Elsea

Device: iSight

Got this working after some driver twiddling- it inititally conflicted with my M-Audio firewire 410 and had sleep troubles.

320 x 240 frame rate is above 250-320, latency is 166 ms

620x 480 frame rate 101, latency is 220 ms

Cute and convenient- color and contrast are not as good as the other cheap cameras I play with, but it does better in low light. It seems to use key frame compression, so sudden movements screw it up. Auto focus is very slow, and makes a clicking sound. Something I did on the low light test scrambled its brains so badly I had to reboot.

Device: Dazzler Hollywood

Worked out of the box, but wouldn't recover from sleep under 10.2.6.

320 X 240 frame rate is 290-350, latency is 175 ms

620 x 480 frame rate is 96 , latency the same movement is smooth.

Device: Canopus ADVC 100

Worked out of the box.

320 X 240 frame rate is latency is 130

620 x 480 frame rate is 95 , latency 225

Movement is very smooth. Color conversion is slightly better than the dazzler.

There are some nice features, such as an audio lock switch.

Device: imaging source DFG 1394

Lossless codecquality

320 X 240 frame rate is 250 +, latency is 110

620 x 480 frame rate is 105 , latency 155 ms

Processor: dual 1.42/1gig Power Mac

Submitted by: Matthew Lewis

Devices:

iBot 320x240: ~240fps 640x480: ~97fps

DFG1394 320x240: ~225fps 640x480: ~80fps

Dazzle 320x240: ~210fps 640x480: ~80fps

Processor: 1ghz/512 Powerbook

Devices:

iBot 320x240: ~165fps 640x480: ~60fps

DFG1394 320x240: ~150fps 640x480: ~50fps

Dazzle 320x240: ~120fps 640x480: ~38fps

Processor: 700/640 G4 iMac

Devices:

iBot 320x240: ~85fps 640x480: ~23fps

DFG1394 320x240: ~80fps 640x480: ~30fps

Dazzle 320x240: ~65fps 640x480: ~20fps

Processor: 400/256 G3 iMac

Devices:

iBot 320x240: ~60fps 640x480: ~19fps

DFG1394 320x240: ~53fps 640x480: ~15fps

Dazzle 320x240: ~29fps 640x480: ~13fps

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