An Apple iSight sighting... from the year 2001!

[adamfilip]

perhaps future versions of the apple LCD's will have a built in mount for the isight.. and you wont have to worry about the sticky pads.. ofcourse.. they arent cheap (the lcd's that is)

 

[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by jbomber
hehehe, it was kinda touch-and-go right after the movie let out. i think a lot of people were kind of looking around at other people to figure out whether they liked it or not. the filmmakers did a good job - they pushed it about as far as they could without totally taking it over the top.

I liked VS up until the ending started to unfold. The ending was just weak and cliched, IMO. At the end I was like WTF? But not a confused WTF, but a let down WTF.


Lethal

 

[maradong]

wierd

 

[MacFan26]

Yet another Tom Cruise movie where Apple branded items were found. Anyone remember seeing the Apple logos in Mission Impossible?

 

[maka]

A bit off topic but...

I guess this is what everybody says when a remake is made, but, here it is: 🙂

The original movie is better....

For those who don't know, it's a spanish film called "Abre los Ojos" (Open your eyes) from Alejandro Amenabar, who later filmed "The Others" in the States.

Anyway, "Abre los Ojos" is not his best movie, and I find the story quite predictable... His best movie is "Tesis" (Thesis)

 

[Squire]

Originally posted by jbomber
it was a good flick. it's a little unsettling how it starts out over here, but ends up waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over there. i came out of the theater and i wasn't sure whether or not i liked the film until weeks later.

I had the same feeling. Then, I concluded that it was an awesome flick. It was one of those movies where I had absolutely no idea what the story was about before I watched it. Boy, was I surprised.

Back on topic...do iSights really suck? I was thinking of getting 2 (one for me, one for the folks) if/when I upgrade to Panther.

Squire

 

[bigandy]

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.

i got an original isight and it came with those mounts. HOWEVER a friend got one a few weeks ago and it came with a magnetic mount for attaching it to the new Apple Cinema Display.....

 

[dsharits]

Someone, either Apple or a third party manufacturer, has got to come up with a better mounting system for the iSight.

Daniel

 

[debroglie]

As someone else already pointed out, "Abre los ojos" was the original of this movie, and IMHO it was much better than Vanilla Sky

 

[MarksEvilTwin]

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