Re: [PLUG] Web Cam Recommendation

["Paul W. Roach III" <paul@isaroach.com>]

I think normally this is more of a whitebalance thing?  I believe that many apps (like motion for linux) allow you to control gain, but I'm not sure about whitebalance.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Randall A Sindlinger <rsindlin+plug@seas.upenn.edu> wrote:

Does anyone know of any that you can disable the auto-iris on?

For playing around with image recognition, (especially for color),
I've found it very annoying that the webcams try to "help" you.
Yellow especially can end up washing out to white if the iris opens
up, or turning towards orange if it clamps down.

-Randall

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 07:02:51PM -0500, Casey Bralla wrote:
> Anybody want to recommend a decent web cam?  It seems all the cheap ones that
> I have bought over the years (or even some not so cheap) either aren't very
> compatible, or are just pretty crummy.
>
> Anybody have one they like?
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