Talk:QuickCam

Is it of any interest to WP to mention the irony of the fact that, since moving to Logitech, the range has become less and less compatible with Macintosh in spite of the rest of the technology industry's general return to the Mac platform? Also, it might be useful to mention the Open Source driver macam which can provide some support for these webcams on OS X. Connectionfailure 07:24, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I can't find the irony with Logitech becoming less compatible with the Mac. This seems to be a normal business practice to shift to markets with the largest customer base. So maybe more explanation on this would be helpfull. Kipster 13:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

The product was originally developed for the Mac, and had an existing customer base that has seen their support gradually diminished to almost non-existence. Compare this with, say, Canon, who have had a love-hate relationship with Apple. For a while they had very few products for the Mac and now many of their printers and digital cameras are supported. Contrast with Apple who bought Logic from eMagic and shut down development of the Windows version. Connectionfailure 11:58, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

what about "QuickCam VC" ?
doing a search for "QuickCam VC" gives 19k+ results on Google, it is the model I got, but I don't know much about it, is it one of the models already listed on this page or it hasn't been mentioned? if so, why? --TiagoTiago (talk) 23:07, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

QuickCam development, citation sought
Today, IP editor 69.181.202.42 deleted a paragraph of material regarding the development of the Connectix QuickCam, with the following edit summary comment: " Removed incorrect (and mostly non-sensical) historical development of project — DARPA and college/university collaborations had no part in QuickCam's hardware or software development.)"

Material removed:
 * "Originally, a graduate degree research project in the early 1990s between various California School and East Coast School, the QuickCam was originally an RS-232 color CCD camera with the capability of switching mode between 256 color to 16 gray scale which improved the frame rates from 15 to 60 frame/s. Both the Apple and Windows version software were sponsored by DARPA and Department of Veterans Affair in a head-to-head contest. The Windows version was complied under both MS Visual Studios (Microsoft Academic Alliance) and Borland C/C+ compilers for both Windows 3.11 and Windows 95."

I'm parking the deleted material here to see if anyone can provide a reliable citation(s) for it. Note that many blogs and mirrors have copied the material from Wikipedia, so they obviously don't count. Best: HarryZilber (talk) 00:05, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Original Quickcam video resolution
AFAIROI (as far as I've read on the internet) the video resolution of the original QuickCam was 160x120 with 16 colours (shades of grey) and 15 fps. Can you please verify that? Thank you. Also, did both serial and parallel port versions have a microphone?

Someone with access to the original model, could you please expand the article on this issue? Thank you. Maikel (talk) 11:08, 11 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Only the Mac version of the original Quickcam had a built-in microphone. 24.51.192.49 (talk) 03:02, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

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