On Wednesday 08 November 2006 04:20, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 15:28 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > However, it turns out that even a $70 dollar webcam is, photographicly > > speaking, a POS. Color is basicly way off, with no chance of software > > corrections as the error is in gamma tracking from color to color > > I'm not surprised. That's still damn cheap. And webcams are generally > designed to manage to get some sort of picture in bad lighting, rather > than be very good. Most are sensitive to IR and UV, so that throws > colour really out of whack, too. > Tim, I know my Philips webcam was cheap, but it used to work with GnomeMeeting. The picture was clear and the colour not too far out. IIRC with FC4 I had no problem with the picture either, though I never got the sound part right. With FC6 it is unusable. I don't know whether it's the webcam or pwc. Anne
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