For those of you that follow the podcast and blog you know I have been waiting for the new MacBooks to come out. My current MacBook is surviving but just barely! I really need to plant it on a desk and not keep moving it around.  My iSight is toast so I borrowed a friend of mines Logitech “Logicool” web camera. See picture below for comparison.

It works good for most things in OSX and on the web but I cant get iMovie09 to recognize it no matter what I do.  This is not that big of a deal, but there are some occasions where I would like to import directly from this iSight replacement.  I searched the web and found some hacks that were supposed to work but they didn’t end up working for me. I have given up and just decided to use PhotoBooth for capturing video if I find it necessary. PhotoBooth allows you to switch cameras in the Camera Menu.

The Logicool camera has a Carl Zeiss Lens and doesn’t need any drivers. If you want to have the ability to control  brightness, contrast, and saturation you can load up CamTwist. The CamTwist Effects Menu has a Brightness effect which gives you the 3 controls.