How many of you actually use iSight chat???

[andym172]

I use mine quite often to speak to friends around the UK. I actually bought an iSight for my sister when she went to uni - paying over the odds for the camera at a local approved Apple retailer - and she never uses the damn thing. Her and my mum simply phone echother all the time...

 

[y0zza]

Using it every day, both on iChat/Bonjour and iChat/AIM.

Also been using the new Skype video beta... great for keeping in touch with my SO, since she's away for a month.

 

[2ndPath]

I tried it once or twice with a windows pc with aim on the other end. This was half-way decent, but not great. But my main problem is that I hardly know any people using one of the ichat supported protocols.

Recently almost all of my "chatting" has been done with the Skype audio chat. So I hope they will release the video version soon.

 

[kretzy]

I do... when it works

I pretend mines not working, and describe what I'm doing in graphic detail.....leave 'em wanting more

Hmm...



I've never actually tried to be honest. No one I know does it, so I have no one to chat to and I dare say our internet connection is too slow at only 256kb

 

[Applespider]

My wife's macBook's iSight is sharper I think, but the picture is always dark.

You might want to get her a copy of iGlasses which can improve the iSight picture.

 

[ITASOR]

I do... when it works

Same here, which extremely limits the amount of times I can do it, because 75% of the time it doesn't connect. Then it does. Then it stops working again. LOL.

When I do use it, I use iGlasses to improve the picture, it's a great program, it really is.

 

[DarkNetworks]

i used it only once when i first bought it....that's with Yahoo Messenger. Now, it's just lying there, full of dust...

 

[m-dogg]

Not too much, but I don't know anyone else with an isight, so that's probably the reason why.

I've done a few one-way video to audio chats with my brother, but I think I'd be more likely to use it if I knew more people with them.

 

[Macmaniac]

I don't own an iSight, and until I buy a computer with one in it I won't get one. I use iChat just for IM. For audio chats I use Skype.

 

[bigandy]

i don't use mine for chats, i use it for stop motion animation

iStopMotion is great, and i think i will keep the iSight FW after i get me a MBP because it's so useful being able to move it anywhere.

 

[w_parietti22]

My wife's macBook's iSight is sharper I think, but the picture is always dark. My external almost always seems to have better light sensitivity

Exactly. Internal iSights have smaller lenses but they have 640x480 res (.3mps). External iSights have larger lenses so you have better lighting but they only have 320x240 res (.15mps).

 

[wmmk]

i don't use mine for chats, i use it for stop motion animation

iStopMotion is great, and i think i will keep the iSight FW after i get me a MBP because it's so useful being able to move it anywhere.

wow, iStopMotion looks cool! everything from Boinx seems pretty neat, as a matter of fact. How exactly doers the stop motion work?

 

[Bern]

I never use it, I even had an external iSight and never used that one either. AIM and .Mac just aren't that popular here.

 

[Obsidian6]

I bought my external isight with my first powerbook back in 2004 ( before they gave you that cool magnetic mount ) so i could video chat with my family when i moved away to school. I only got to use it a few times for that, ,as no one else i knew had an isight. i know loads of people on mac but NO ONE has isight.. *sigh*

so now i just rigged mine up to play with photobooth on my G5, and for using Delicious Library ( which is ingenous . pointless almost, but ingenious )

 

[ricgnzlzcr]

I'm debating on whether to get an isight in order to talk with my girlfriend when I go back to school next semester. Well, maybe I won't.....typing lets me delete the stupid things that come out of my mouth

 

[BAspecialCake]

It would help if our friends were as tech savvy as we all are...

And supermodel sexy. This would solve everything.

 

[Squareball]

I have a MBP and have never used the iSight except when it came on during initial setup

 

[eidrunner247]

I am wondering (hoping) that this perception will change and iSight will be used more since it is incorporated into all the new macbooks...

 

[BAspecialCake]

It's a matter of having the people you want on using iChat also...

Do they have new macbooks?

 

[jaxstate]

All the time.

I use it on a webcam based site everyday. I also get random IM from people who saw my screen name on ichatters.com, and they want to test out their new Macs.

 

[netdog]

Never use it.

 

[DarkNetworks]

I use it on a webcam based site everyday. I also get random IM from people who saw my screen name on ichatters.com, and they want to test out their new Macs.

random video and IM with strangers really freaks me out...

 

[daveL]

Japan

I was in Tokyo from 9/05 to 1 /06, most of the time. My wife and I used iSight on the weekends to chat, see my dogs etc.. Worked great! We only had a 0.5 Mbps dsl connection at home and a hotel "broadband" in Tokyo. We used a Jabber server to connect. No worries.

 

[GnrlyMrly]

I'm getting my MacBook tomorrow via FedEx.

Anybody want to be iSight buddies?!?!

......

 

[wmmk]

I occasionally iSight chat with my uncle and aunt, who are soon moving out of Chicago, which means I'll now be iSight chatting more. also, my grandparents and other aunt and uncle on the east coast may get webcams tnow that I have the MBP. i also use the iSight's mic a lot for audiochatting.