I wish ILCE-6000 was supported as well :-(
Sony cameras can now be used as webcams for Mac
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#32It is possible to use any camera that can display its FOV on a computer screen as we webcam with OBS and OBS-VirtualCam.
I've been using a Sony a6300 as a webcam for a few months now and it works great without any hardware beyond the USB cable between camera and computer.
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#34It's kind of wild to me how there's such a product vacuum for this stuff. I've dug around and the only real option is an HDMI capture card paired with a decent camera (I read this Sony software option is lower quality, but at least it's progress). LG camera setups target businesses and are generally overpriced crap (I have one - the LG meetup) with proprietary connections and mediocre cameras, and crappy mics/softwar…
I was really hoping Apple would make it possible to use an iPhone as a webcam on macOS as a first-class built in feature (reverse AirPlay?) by now.
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#35It's kind of wild to me how there's such a product vacuum for this stuff. I've dug around and the only real option is an HDMI capture card paired with a decent camera (I read this Sony software option is lower quality, but at least it's progress). LG camera setups target businesses and are generally overpriced crap (I have one - the LG meetup) with proprietary connections and mediocre cameras, and crappy mics/softwar…
I was experimenting today with using my iphone as a webcam. It seems to work best with camo, and the image was way better than the builtin webcam of my imac or any regular external webcam. But I found it surprising how niche this still is. There seem to be no standard mounts for sale for easily clipping an iphone on the top of a laptop or imac, and the software situation is unsatisfying.
Re: Sony cameras can now be used as webcams for Mac
#36Mac support is implemented using a CoreMediaIO plugin, hinting that they are not updating the camera firmware to speak USB webcam, which prevents driverless use of the device: /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/ImagingEdgeWebcam.plugin Could someone with a Sony camera please verify on macOS 10.15 (with ASR enabled) whether this webcam support is usable from within Apple's desktop FaceTime app? What protocol version an…
I tried it and I haven’t been able to use it for literally anything.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was the Canon EOS solution they published the beta for earlier this year. I have an old Rebel T5 that I decided to try out, even though official support bottomed out at the T6. No capture card required, just the EOS Webcam utility and a USB connection. It runs very slowly, though. The latency is bad and so is the frame rate, though the picture itself is great. I've heard that reported for many supported cameras…
https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/se... > This Software is for use in the U.S. and will not be supported outside that area > Subscription to a third party service required. What on earth reason could they have for this being US only. Absolutely ludicrous.
> What on earth reason could they have for this being US only
GDPR, for one.
Re: Sony cameras can now be used as webcams for Mac
#38Mac support is implemented using a CoreMediaIO plugin, hinting that they are not updating the camera firmware to speak USB webcam, which prevents driverless use of the device: /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/ImagingEdgeWebcam.plugin Could someone with a Sony camera please verify on macOS 10.15 (with ASR enabled) whether this webcam support is usable from within Apple's desktop FaceTime app? What protocol version an…
If you copy the FaceTime app and save it with a different name ("FaceTime copy") you can run that and it will let you pick any webcam, even virtual ones.
If you do this you need to remake the copy whenever the OS update or else Spotlight will crash whenever your phone rings. (took me awhile to figure that one out)
I don't know whether or not this will get the Sony driver working. Obviously it would be better if it just worked like any other USB webcam.
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#39Anyone know if an A7III can be used as a webcam on gnu/linux?
I documented the process for using a DSLR as a webcam in Linux, and it does look like the A7III _should_ be supported:
https://www.crackedthecode.co/how-to-use-your-dslr-as-a-webc...
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#40RX100 VII on macOS 11 doesn't work with the recommended settings, quelle surprise from Sony software. The €9 capture card I read about here works perfectly and at higher res.
Which capture card are you using? I couldn't find mentions to it in this thread.