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iSight 1.0.2 Firmware Update
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What are you talking about placebo, this update makes the color MUCH MUCH better, especially in low light. I (and my girlfriend) used to have to have a lamp right behind the isight to show up well when the sun went down. I don't really tihnk of it as bad lighting, but it isn't like daylight. With the update I can turn that light off and still see myself. And even better, I'm not white/pale blue anymore, I'm a nice fleshy color.
Oh and if Apple ports iChat to windows I will be both happy and majorly pissed, why else did I just spend $700 on an emac and isight for my girlfriend??
What are you talking about placebo, this update makes the color MUCH MUCH better, especially in low light. I (and my girlfriend) used to have to have a lamp right behind the isight to show up well when the sun went down. I don't really tihnk of it as bad lighting, but it isn't like daylight. With the update I can turn that light off and still see myself. And even better, I'm not white/pale blue anymore, I'm a nice fleshy color.
Oh and if Apple ports iChat to windows I will be both happy and majorly pissed, why else did I just spend $700 on an emac and isight for my girlfriend??
Originally posted by Freg3000
I was going to ask how SW would know if I had an iSight or not. It doesn't-it showed up even though I do not have an iSight. What the heck, I installed it anyway.
Same, I always install updates for stuff I don't have, just in case I ever do get an iSight/iPod/Bluetooth/whatever else I've installed updates for. That way, I don't need to worry about getting updates once I actually have the device
Re: Real-time QuickTime effects
The iSight auto color balances, in an effort to make the picture look better. The problem is, you have no idea what the color SHOULD look like, because it could be used in a wide variety of situations.
Therefore, the engineers have to guess at a "right" color. I havent heard the comments you were referring to but I can imagine people were complaining because they thought the "guessing" was based on the assumption that you had a big white face in the middle of the shot. Having a big brown face in the middle of the shot would have then made the camera adjust to compensate, which could have made said big brown face look really odd.
The reality is it did a pretty crappy job at all of the different colors of faces. Everyone looked odd.
The new firmware makes my big white face look MUCH better (well, to a point, there's only so much you can do with what you are given). As soon as my friends with big brown faces update their firmware, I'll let you know how it went.
The iSight auto color balances, in an effort to make the picture look better. The problem is, you have no idea what the color SHOULD look like, because it could be used in a wide variety of situations.
Therefore, the engineers have to guess at a "right" color. I havent heard the comments you were referring to but I can imagine people were complaining because they thought the "guessing" was based on the assumption that you had a big white face in the middle of the shot. Having a big brown face in the middle of the shot would have then made the camera adjust to compensate, which could have made said big brown face look really odd.
The reality is it did a pretty crappy job at all of the different colors of faces. Everyone looked odd.
The new firmware makes my big white face look MUCH better (well, to a point, there's only so much you can do with what you are given). As soon as my friends with big brown faces update their firmware, I'll let you know how it went.
No placebo here, greenish hues went to orange now, before EVERYTHING had a green white balance, now it is a strong orange. Took pictures myself to prove this. Overall it makes people more truer to their skin tones. Quite impressed!
ugly firmware update
Just to warn you,
I installed the new firmware and I've had some pretty bad problems. Sometimes the colors totally freak out, but mainly the whole picture is overrun with green, blue, and black...
That, and the pic is bouncing some too.
Sometimes works, but mostly it hasn't worked.
Before update, no problems at all like this.
Just to warn you,
I installed the new firmware and I've had some pretty bad problems. Sometimes the colors totally freak out, but mainly the whole picture is overrun with green, blue, and black...
That, and the pic is bouncing some too.
Sometimes works, but mostly it hasn't worked.
Before update, no problems at all like this.
I just installed it and it made a HUGE improvement to the color balance. It totally got rid of that sickly green cast that it had before.
Re: Re: Re: Re: IIDC compliance
, but AIM 5.5 for Windows was announced last week, with video chat compatibility with iChat AV, and in the MacCentral article about it they quoted an AOL (or maybe Apple) executive saying that the iSight would work with AIM on Windows.
So this has already happened, except it's AIM instead of iChat. There were some reports that the iSight wasn't always working properly on Windows, and my guess is that this improved IIDC compliance fixes those problems (or at least makes them better).
WM
Not sure if you've been living under a rock or whatOriginally posted by DaveGee
Ahhh okay then that makes it pretty clear... Thanks! Even if you did drop a bomb on my whole PC A/V iChat dreams...
, but AIM 5.5 for Windows was announced last week, with video chat compatibility with iChat AV, and in the MacCentral article about it they quoted an AOL (or maybe Apple) executive saying that the iSight would work with AIM on Windows.So this has already happened, except it's AIM instead of iChat. There were some reports that the iSight wasn't always working properly on Windows, and my guess is that this improved IIDC compliance fixes those problems (or at least makes them better).
WM
I bought an iSight a few days ago and I'm impressed. I never tried to on iChat >< AIM yet, but works great in Yahoo Messenger. I think it's even better than iChat cuz I can leave it on all the time (broadcast mode) and anyone on my list can turn it on and view it at anytime I remember hearing that Yahoo video on Mac only works with Mac contacts, but apparently works with PC users too. So I don't know why all the fuss over AIM compatibility when there always was Yahoo.
I remember hearing that Yahoo video on Mac only works with Mac contacts, but apparently works with PC users too. So I don't know why all the fuss over AIM compatibility when there always was Yahoo.White Balance
As a photographer, I *really* notice the white balance improvement. Previously, I looked very "blue-green" under fluorescent lighting (which is what happens to be in the room where the Mac with the iSight lives). Now, I'm a healthy shade of pink (okay, I went to the beach today...). Very true-to-life fleshtones now.
As a photographer, I *really* notice the white balance improvement. Previously, I looked very "blue-green" under fluorescent lighting (which is what happens to be in the room where the Mac with the iSight lives). Now, I'm a healthy shade of pink (okay, I went to the beach today...). Very true-to-life fleshtones now.
did you ever have 30 fps with an alubook 1.25 Ghz on ichat av. The connection type is secondary. On the ichat site the system requirement for full quality is a dual 800 Mhz G4. I want to know if my powerbook ist faster then that.
The update is very good. The colours are much crisper and I am not pale anymore...
The update is very good. The colours are much crisper and I am not pale anymore...
IIDC compliance
iChat AV Public Beta 2.1 supports video conferencing with AIM 5.5, and you can download it now.
http://www.apple.com/ichat/
Originally posted by WM.
Not sure if you've been living under a rock or what
So this has already happened, except it's AIM instead of iChat. There were some reports that the iSight wasn't always working properly on Windows, and my guess is that this improved IIDC compliance fixes those problems (or at least makes them better).
WM
iChat AV Public Beta 2.1 supports video conferencing with AIM 5.5, and you can download it now.
http://www.apple.com/ichat/
iSight on PC DOES work
Assuming you have a OHCI compliant FW card in your PC and it is running XP it should all work ok - though you will need a separate microphone as the one in the iSight will only work with a Mac. One more good reason to use a Mac to be honest - not that you need too many excuses to switch !
Assuming you have a OHCI compliant FW card in your PC and it is running XP it should all work ok - though you will need a separate microphone as the one in the iSight will only work with a Mac. One more good reason to use a Mac to be honest - not that you need too many excuses to switch !
Re: iSight on PC DOES work
LoL, that is like saying a good reason to switch to windows is that MS never wrote a mac driver for a MS made PC device.
Originally posted by davegoody
Assuming you have a OHCI compliant FW card in your PC and it is running XP it should all work ok - though you will need a separate microphone as the one in the iSight will only work with a Mac. One more good reason to use a Mac to be honest - not that you need too many excuses to switch !
LoL, that is like saying a good reason to switch to windows is that MS never wrote a mac driver for a MS made PC device.
Great update, but is it just me or does the isight now no longer compensate for text reversal? i.e. when you hold up a sheet of paper it does not show the text reversed... it does now... im sure it didn't show reversed text before?
UPDATE - the text is OK in iMovie and other video apps?? - maybe it is the iChat AV 2.1(Beta) that has changed it?
UPDATE - the text is OK in iMovie and other video apps?? - maybe it is the iChat AV 2.1(Beta) that has changed it?
Daves:
Yes, there is a new version of AIM that's compatible with iChat 2.1, and yes, the iSight is supposed to work with AIM 5.5 on Windows. But there were some reports that it wasn't working, so I was speculating that perhaps this firmware update has made the iSight work more reliably on Windows machines.
WM
Yes, there is a new version of AIM that's compatible with iChat 2.1, and yes, the iSight is supposed to work with AIM 5.5 on Windows. But there were some reports that it wasn't working, so I was speculating that perhaps this firmware update has made the iSight work more reliably on Windows machines.
WM
just like a completely differnet camera
Honestly, I was a little upset with the color performance of my isight recently. Me all winter white sitting with a white t-shirt against a white wall wan't especially spectacular to view. well at least not good spectacular. the new colors are much better, esp. in low light environments. Gives a great deal of new self conciousness
but then again, the sun was shining all day...
Honestly, I was a little upset with the color performance of my isight recently. Me all winter white sitting with a white t-shirt against a white wall wan't especially spectacular to view. well at least not good spectacular. the new colors are much better, esp. in low light environments. Gives a great deal of new self conciousness
but then again, the sun was shining all day...