Post #4037049

@seuros@mastodon.bsd.cafe Sadly, my iSight died a while ago, but it was a great camera for its day. We actually did a load of filming with it. We had a DV camcorder, but it really needed an external microphone because otherwise the tape motor was loud and we needed to rerecord all of the sound after using it. It took 10 GB DV tapes and could dump them with Firewire isochronous transfer (the tape couldn't slow down, the computer either took the data or dropped it. USB prior to 2.0 didn't let you even guarantee it would reach the computer). But we moved to using the iSight because it let us record directly to the Mac's hard disk. A laptop on a trolley (with the iSight on its lid) gave us a stable camera platform that we could move around easily and no tape noise. As a result, I have a small pile of DV tapes that are still in their original packaging that I never opened.