SightFlex for iSight Review, caution
dear all,
thought i would let you know about the following; the sightflex for isight made by DVForge http://www.dvforge.com/sightflex.shtml got very good reviews in nearly all the reviews i read. so i ordered one.
I knew that the metal gooseneck would make awful creaky noises, but that is ok for me.
the problem with mine was, that after a certain time the camera picture would freeze, or it would shut down completely (green light off). also when flicking the gooseneck with the finger, the isight picture would be flickering, with strange lines across the picture.
I thought i might as well trough it away, cause i was afraid it would damage my ibook.
so i found the following: http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=143848&cid=12055060
also check the pictures: http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/main.php?g2view=core.ShowItem&g2itemId=19371
so i opened mine, and found a real mess. the pictures above look very clean and neat in comparison to the guts of my sighflex. the metal colored outer protection around the small cables was all over the place, and where the small cables are conected, everything was really rusty!!
what a dissapointement!
never the less, i twisted the cables and put a aluminium foil around them. put it together again, and since then it work's perfectly. don't ask me why!!
it doesn't shut down any more, and also the frighting flickering in the picture is gone.
I am not saying that all those sightflex stands are badly wired, but mine was for sure! also i am pretty sure, that it doesn't do your isight any good, until fixed (or what ever you would call that) with above procedure.
alex
thought i would let you know about the following; the sightflex for isight made by DVForge http://www.dvforge.com/sightflex.shtml got very good reviews in nearly all the reviews i read. so i ordered one.
I knew that the metal gooseneck would make awful creaky noises, but that is ok for me.
the problem with mine was, that after a certain time the camera picture would freeze, or it would shut down completely (green light off). also when flicking the gooseneck with the finger, the isight picture would be flickering, with strange lines across the picture.
I thought i might as well trough it away, cause i was afraid it would damage my ibook.
so i found the following: http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=143848&cid=12055060
also check the pictures: http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/main.php?g2view=core.ShowItem&g2itemId=19371
so i opened mine, and found a real mess. the pictures above look very clean and neat in comparison to the guts of my sighflex. the metal colored outer protection around the small cables was all over the place, and where the small cables are conected, everything was really rusty!!
what a dissapointement!
never the less, i twisted the cables and put a aluminium foil around them. put it together again, and since then it work's perfectly. don't ask me why!!
it doesn't shut down any more, and also the frighting flickering in the picture is gone.
I am not saying that all those sightflex stands are badly wired, but mine was for sure! also i am pretty sure, that it doesn't do your isight any good, until fixed (or what ever you would call that) with above procedure.
alex