Use Canon Powershot G6 with Photo Booth?

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Use Canon Powershot G6 with Photo Booth?

I have a brand new Mac Pro running OS 10.5.7 with photo booth, but no isight camera. I'd like to use my Canon Powershot G6 with Photo Booth, but when I plug in my camera, via USB cable, and launch Photo Booth, there is just a blank picture window.

I'd be very grateful for any suggestions of how to make this work (if possible) or where I might look for a solution.

Many thanks in advance.

Z

2 x 2.26 GHz Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.7), 8 GB RAM

Posted on Jun 13, 2009 6:21 AM

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Defcom-UK

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Jun 13, 2009 7:45 AM in response to Zina

Its a stills camera so wont work.

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Zina Author

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Jun 13, 2009 7:50 AM in response to Defcom-UK

Thanks for the reply. I use Photo booth for taking still pictures, and I have a logitech camera that works with photo booth, so I'm not sure I'm understanding your point. Could you detail what you mean?

Thanks in advance.

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Defcom-UK

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Jun 13, 2009 8:05 AM in response to Zina

The Canon Powershot G6 is a stills(normal pictures) and not a webcam and will not work with PhotoBooth, the logitech will as that is a webcam.

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Zina Author

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Jun 13, 2009 8:45 AM in response to Defcom-UK

Thank you very much for explaining; I had hoped I could attach my camera to my computer and use photo booth to shoot high resolution photos. If you or anyone else knows of way to do that, I'd love to hear.

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Jun 13, 2009 1:23 PM in response to Zina

Hi,

In Many apps that can access cameras it is about the resolution the software that the app restricts the camera to, rather than the abilities of the camera.

You may find that some cameras such as those that connect by Firewire may produce a more pleasing picture rather than being at a different resolution.

There is not much difference in External USB cameras over the Internal one on those Macs that have Internal iSights.

iGlasses is cheap and works for a7 day trial before you have to commit yourself and can access some features and tweak the video from Web cams in various Apps

10:22 PM Saturday; June 13, 2009

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Zina Author

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Jun 14, 2009 6:10 AM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Very cool little application, Ralph; thanks so much for posting about it!

Best,

Z

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Jun 14, 2009 11:55 AM in response to Zina

Thanks for the Points.

7:55 PM Sunday; June 14, 2009

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