iMage USB Webcam
Company: eCamm Network
Price: $59.95 USD
http://www.ecamm.com/

I use a G4 PPC MDD 867 dual with 1.5 gigs of ram…and no iSight camera. I wanted one but figured that the price would come down fairly quick but the next thing I knew, gone! So there I’ve been, looking at the assortment of cameras that Window’s folks have but never seeing Mac compatible on the box. I know, I know, I could buy one and then purchase IOXperts Webcam Driver for Mac OS X but I thought that was just a bit much paying for a Windows webcam and then having to purchase a driver to let me use it.

Instead I decided to try eCamm’s image USB Webcam, designed to work with Macs and Windows and Linux systems. This webcam delivers 640×480 video to your Mac apps that you’ve been dying to use a webcam with, like iChat AV, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger and a whole slew of other programs. The unit is a USB video class (UVC) camera (VGA) 1/7-inch color CCD sensor, that provides image sizes of 640 x 480 (VGA), 352 x 288 (CIF), 320 x 240 (QVGA at15 Frames Per Second Uncompressed Video. It utilizes a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed Connection (480 Mbits/s), is UVC 1.1 Compliant with Auto white balance control and Auto electronic iris control. The webcam itself is only 2” (L) x 1 3/4” (H) x 1” (W). It even comes with a threaded screw hole on the bottom if you’re a perfectionist and want to mount the unit on a small tripod.

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