Whenever I attach my video camera to my Mac and use it as an input to a video 
iChat the image is reversed left-to-right, that is, if I hold up such as a 
newspaper the text on the headline will be right side up but left-to-right 
backwards.

When the same video camera is connected to iMovie on the same Mac the image 
is not reversed.

I'm using Mac OS X (10.5.2) on a MacBook Pro. The video camera is a Sony 
HDR-HDC and is connected by a Sony iLink cable.

Am I facing an iChat bug? Any thoughts and/or suggestions will be 
appreciated.


-- 
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com

In my immediately preceding posting in this thread I commented that the image 
from my video camera when it is used as input to iChat is reversed. I just 
now did some googling and find that this is a "feature" based upon the 
assumption that one is most likely lusing an iSight or built in camera and 
the image is reversed so that what the user sees is as though they were 
looking into a mirror. On the other hand such reversal can be confusing if 
the camera is aimed elsewhere.

What Apple needs to do is to provide an option so that the reversal can be 
selected or deselected at will. I'm posting a bug report.

-- 
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com

 TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

> In my immediately preceding posting in this thread I commented that the image 
> from my video camera when it is used as input to iChat is reversed. I just 
> now did some googling and find that this is a "feature" based upon the 
> assumption that one is most likely lusing an iSight or built in camera and 
> the image is reversed so that what the user sees is as though they were 
> looking into a mirror. On the other hand such reversal can be confusing if 
> the camera is aimed elsewhere.
> 
> What Apple needs to do is to provide an option so that the reversal can be 
> selected or deselected at will. I'm posting a bug report.

iGlasses provides such an option.

http://www.ecamm.com/mac/iglasses/

-- 
Alec McKenzie
alecusenet@<surname>.me.uk

In article <0001HW.C425097F0013216FB01AD9AF@news.supernews.com>,
 TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> wrote:

> In my immediately preceding posting in this thread I commented that the image 
> from my video camera when it is used as input to iChat is reversed. I just 
> now did some googling and find that this is a "feature" based upon the 
> assumption that one is most likely lusing an iSight or built in camera and 
> the image is reversed so that what the user sees is as though they were 
> looking into a mirror. On the other hand such reversal can be confusing if 
> the camera is aimed elsewhere.
> 
> What Apple needs to do is to provide an option so that the reversal can be 
> selected or deselected at will. I'm posting a bug report.

It seems like it would be a simple task for a "photo effect".  maybe if 
there's enough demand, someone will write one.

-- 
Tom Stiller

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