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macOS 13 Ventura Lets You Use Your iPhone's Camera as a Webcam
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Because in terms of laptop web cams apple went from industry leading to industry worse.
The rear camera on a new or newer iPhone is better than any laptop webcam. I would want better than "doesn't suck" 🤭Please give me one example of a laptop at any price range with a webcam that doesn't suck. I'll wait.
Yet, for some reason the 14" and 16" MBPs cameras are coming out quite bad in terms of quality.
They're about the same as every other laptop camera. They're better than some, and only marginally worse than others. Laptop cameras are notoriously bad. Seriously. This isn't even debatable. The only thing good about laptop webcams is that they're there if you need them for convenience, but they all look like hot garbage.
When the HDMI port died on my GH4 that I was using for zoom teaching, I had really hoped there was a way to do this with my phone. There wasn’t, which was disappointing, although there was some paid app that promised that functionality. So I can see the usefulness, and I’m glad it’s coming.
That said, it is rather funny, since it does mean apple’s acknowledging that they have a problem with the built-in camera.
That said, it is rather funny, since it does mean apple’s acknowledging that they have a problem with the built-in camera.
That’s a really good point. If I want to run a wireless lav, can I just have it going to the phone, or do I have to rig something to the MacBook Pro to get audio?
From other software I've used you can have it coming from anywhere, including the phone.
Well, that's one way to get around the crappy built in cams. But will it work on an external monitor too?
Non-issue. Buy another iPhone to use as a phone; while your current iPhone gets used as a camera.
You have used a lot of fancy sounding words there, however everything have said is a complete nonsense.
This would have been an invaluable feature for me to have when I was conducting remote teaching during the pandemic. I wanted to showcase a particular mathematical concept using maths manipulatives to my students and ended up attaching my ipad to a stand and mirroring it to my ipad via QuickTime.
This feature would have let me project what was on my desk directly using my phone and skipping the clutter. Would have been nice if it had been available last year, but better late than never, I suppose.
You can already do that on Big Sur and earlier with Quicktime, OBS and Zoom by attaching your iPhone and using it as an external Camera.
They say in the Keynote at 1:29:12 that they're working with a company called Belkin to produce them.
I can explain it in terms of effort, load and mechanical advantage if you do desire. A newton in there, a mechanical advantage here and a few newtons out there and oh right a cracked screen dah dee dah. Same outcome.
Mac Studio + Asus monitor here. i'm curious about this feature and i hope that it works well. i'm currently using an old Panasonic G85 with an Elgato Camlink. it works quite well with the kit lens, but a prime would obviously be better. i'm curious to see if a 13 Pro Max would work better.