crappy iSight mounts
The iSight mounts are REALLY crappy. With each camera, you get three mounts, one for a laptop, one for a flat screen and one for a CRT.
The laptop mount is actually OK - it is like the one in the film, and has a thumbscrew to secure it to the laptop screen mount. Its removable, of course, otherwise you couldn't close your laptop anymore.
You also get a nice plastic tube to stash the camera. And, you get some plastic bits to secure the camera, mount, and firewire cable.
The crappy bit is that the mounts for a flat screen and for a CRT have sticky pads, which means that once you have the mount on the screen, its going to be hard to remove. You certainly won't be able to use the mount again, and you may damage the screen enclosure.
Worse, although the camera has some flexibility in that it can tilt up and down, and rotate sideways, the amount of movement isn't enough. And. if you don't stick the mount exactly vertically, you can't correct that by adjusting the camera.
And, my Apple monitor doesn't have a flat area to stick the mount on! I've got a 23" cinema display. The surround on the front isn't nearly enough for the sticky pad, and the rear of the monitor is curved. The sticky pad is not flexible. Oh, and the monitor is far too thick for the laptop mount.
So, in all, yes - you can unmount the camera, but no, you can't move the mount.
What I want is an oversized laptop mount for my cinema display.
