Webcam .... Advice and Recommendations

[hills]

If you're only using microsoft lifecam at this point, on the right hand side of the viewer there is a blue arrow half way down the right edge. Click on that and it brings up the dashboard. At the top there is a cog to enter the setting screen. Then in the "Image adjustments" window there is a "properties" button. Press that and a window will pop up, which is the same window yawcam uses. Select the second tab "camera control" and take the tick off the box on the focus line. I have left my focus at 15.

[geoffw]

Thanks Phil

Mine had defaulted to TrueColor ...... I had to turn that off to reveal the controls!

Geoff

[Gina]

If you're only using microsoft lifecam at this point, on the right hand side of the viewer there is a blue arrow half way down the right edge. Click on that and it brings up the dashboard. At the top there is a cog to enter the setting screen. Then in the "Image adjustments" window there is a "properties" button. Press that and a window will pop up, which is the same window yawcam uses. Select the second tab "camera control" and take the tick off the box on the focus line. I have left my focus at 15.

When I'm running Yawcam the MS software won't run - it says another application is using the webcam.

Going back to Yawcam camera settings - I set the brightness right down to 30 and it still won't resolve the sky - bits of blue plus white and grey clouds. In fact anything below 100 doesn't do anything.

[geoffw]

Gina,

Do you have the smae problem if you set the camera to TrueColor ?

[Gina]

Gina,

Do you have the smae problem if you set the camera to TrueColor ?

I had to turn off TrueColor to get it to work.

[geoffw]

Half an hour weather over Pembrokeshire with my new webcam ..... now to get it linked to my website and to Cumulus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJlZVe2Fqo

[Gina]

Half an hour weather over Pembrokeshire with my new webcam ..... now to get it linked to my website and to Cumulus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJlZVe2Fqo

Very good Geoff

[hills]

When I'm running Yawcam the MS software won't run - it says another application is using the webcam.

Same here, I turned yawcam off to look at the MS software.

Going back to Yawcam camera settings - I set the brightness right down to 30 and it still won't resolve the sky - bits of blue plus white and grey clouds. In fact anything below 100 doesn't do anything.

I'll try that on mine when and let you know what happens, but I'll have to wait until I'm at home during daylight. There's too much glare to try now.

EDIT: I just had a real quick look at it before going to work. Exposure seems to make the most profound difference to the image. I'll post some pictures I captured tonight.

[Gina]

Brightness worked fine from the MS software this evening with the webcam looking indoors but it didn't with Yawcam looking out of the window in daylight. The backlight compensation control also worked well with the MS software. The cam was pointing towards the TV which was on and the picture was almost washed out - the BC varied the room brightness without affecting the TV image, brightening the room part as it was turned up. I'll experiment more tomorrow in daylight with the MS software. Incidentally, the reason I didn't get the camera controls was because I had Truecolour on. That has to be off to access the "Advanced" camera controls.

BTW - I've set the scheduler to stop at 2200 (soon after dark) and on at 0400 (just before dawn) - for both file and FTP.

[hills]

Oops I've obviously left my webcam in a bad state, my pictures are completely white now. I must have left auto exposure off.

[gemini06720]

Half an hour weather over Pembrokeshire with my new webcam ..... now to get it linked to my website and to Cumulus

Geoff, how about 7 days (1 day at the time) of weather over Mount-Maple, Maple Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada... [link removed]

[steve]

I think I'm going to create a separate section for webcams (and move the threads over). There's a lot of discussion going on - and I'm completely happy with this - and I think you webcamsters deserve your own section. I plan to become one again myself eventually! Good idea?

[hills]

I think that's a great idea, can we also have a sticky where we all put the URLs to our webcams in the one thread similar to the banner sticky?

[Gina]

Great idea Steve - thank you

[captzero]

Very good idea. I have been lurking around and following the various webcam topics with interest over the last few weeks and have learned heaps. Still there is more I'd like to do and will follow with interest. I'd like to see each 'cammer' display their best (or worst) pics (sunsets or clouds or magpies or bugs on lenses etc).