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sjs7007 | 3 years ago

If you have an iPhone+mac you can use continuity camera which is pretty seamless in comparison: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213244

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cowsup|3 years ago

There are lots of solutions that are more seamless than the DSLR, but which are vastly more expensive, including just buying a webcam proper. But the fact that you _can_ use the DSLR as your webcam is cool, and may save some folks money if they happen to have a DSLR laying around.

julianlam|3 years ago

The problem with buying a webcam proper is that the industry has reached a "good enough" point where manufacturers will re-release essentially the same camera with no real improvements in resolution, hardware, or software.

I bought a Logitech webcam during the pandemic. Imagine my surprise when the webcam resolution was worse than the one built into my XPS 13.

przmk|3 years ago

There is DroidCam which works with an Android phone and Linux. The set-up is straightforward and it works great.

https://www.dev47apps.com/

NayamAmarshe|3 years ago

Mine keeps disconnecting after a few seconds. DroidCam has never worked well for more than a minute for me.

Wish there was a FOSS alternative.

dognotdog|3 years ago

I've created PTP Webcam [1] during COVID to get DSLRs working for video conferencing on the Mac.

[1] https://ptpwebcam.org/

codazoda|3 years ago

This works better than the Canon EOS Webcam utility for me, even though my DSLR isn't officially supported. It works fine in Zoom. Unfortunately it doesn't work in Quicktime. I'll take a look at some of the code signing info in your docs and see if I can fix it.

gniv|3 years ago

I kept trying to get this to work and failing. If others run into problems like me, note that this feature requires macOS Ventura, release last month.

ycombinete|3 years ago

If you have an iPhone and Windows PC, iVCam works great.

filoleg|3 years ago

Similarly, I can recommend Reincubate Camo, works on macOS/Linux/Windows. It also has plenty manual camera settings to play around with to get the exact view you want, including focus/white balance/exposure/cropping and tons more that the Apple's official continuity functionality lacks.

Disclaimer: zero affiliation with the product (outside of being their happy customer). I simply found it way before the official continuity feature was even announced for macOS+iOS.