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Anyone get the Image Edge Webcam to work on a Mac?

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I got Google Chrome (hangouts, facebook, etc) and OBS to recognize it. No luck with Zoom, Discord, and Skype so far. The problem is getting apps to ask System Preferences to allow the Camera in Privacy. Unfortunately there's no way to force an app to do this it only asks you when opening/installing the app or it doesn't. 

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I was able to get my a6300 working with Zoom, though it doesn't work when I try to use it with Quicktime for a quick movie recording ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. It has been a little finicky (like just had a situation where it constantly showed "USB connecting" on the back of the camera).

Mac OS: 10.15.7
Zoom: 5.3.2 (53291.1011)

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Jogging the mode is *basically* required. I keep the camera hard-wired to my external monitor's USB. So each morning when I reconnect my laptop, I have to go to a Google Hangout (or app of choice) and connect to a meeting. From there, I just get the "Imaging Edge Webcam" logo as my picture. I then hit the center dial to choose a new mode, take it off of video (onto virtually any other setting), which gives me the camera view and then just switch back to video and all is good.

For reference, I'm running the a5100 w/ continuous power and USB connection to a Macbook Pro.

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      JPEG options?

      By XKAES · Posted

      I'd suggest you start by running a simple test.  Take pictures of a typical scene/subject and each of the JPEG settings your camera offers.  Then compare them in the output that you normally produce.  You may or may not see a difference.  I normally shoot at the highest JPEG level and save that file -- but make a smaller file (lower resolution) for normal/typical use. There's plenty of editing that you can do with JPEGs on your computer -- depending on your software -- and there are features in your camera that can help out, as well.  That depends on your camera.  Put them together, and it might meet your needs.  For example, your camera probably has several bracketing features that will take the same shot with different settings with one press of the button.  Then you can select the best JPEG to work with on your computer.  I frequently use this feature to control contrast.
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      JPEG options?

      By Cameratose · Posted

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    • Pieter
      JPEG options?

      By Pieter · Posted

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