PS3 Eye opened, showing easily broken catches (blue)Īnd one of the two difficult ones to open (yellow) This video from Peau Productions helped, but have a look at the full sized version of the images here to understand where the clips you are aiming for are.īack of PS3 Eye with screw covers removed.īack casing, highlighting three easy clips (blue), The main rectangular part of the casing is held by three clips (marked) which are quite easy, but there ball part is held by a pair of strong clips (also marked). Then the hard part - using a flat screwdriver or two, pop the seam all the way round. First, there are four screws on the back hidden behind glued on covers, which must be removed. ![]() With 1.25" telescope nose piece, with threaded IR filterĪctual test images pending - I need a clear night without other commitments. PS3 Eye webcam with standard lens removed and replaced ![]() I know I searched for days looking for a recommendation.I was inspired to try out the PlayStation 3 Eye camera for astrophotogaphy after seeing this amazing Orion M42 nebula image taken using a PS3 webcam on a SkyWatcher 130P (an hours worth of 4s exposures and a lot of post processing). Here's another nice thread on using the PlayStation 3 Eye camera with a telescope. It's reported to use an OV7725 60fps 6um pixel VGA sensor and image processor from Omnivision. Hope this helps you or anyone else looking. From there I just sit my butt on the couch and talk away. You just need to download Macam( )on your MBP, output the MBP to your TV with an HDMI adapter, turn it on and start using it. It mounts nicely on top of the TV and captures the whole couch. On top of that at least the eye has manual zoom since there is no functionality with any cams on the mac. Unless you spend $160 for the quickcam for mac all of the other cams will do the same thing as the eye with less quality and they don't connect to your ps3. It also costs 3 times more than the ps3 eye. The only other cam I'd recommend is the Logitech Quickcam Vison Pro which is the excact same but made specifically for Mac and will work just like the isight cam. There's no lag and you get very little, if any, blurring with movement. It's pretty useless on the ps3 because of the lack of games for now but I'm sure it will be better with the wand.Įither way on the mac it's actually better than the Logitech Quickcam pro 9000(not meant for MAC). I bought a mac mini for my TV(Samsung LED46") and I just leave it connected to that most of the time and switch it out if I ever decide to use it with ps3. It's actually the best cam I've seen so far and I did a lot of research. Not sure if you decided yet but I've been using the eye for about 6 months. I guess for skype/Google chat I'll just have to install Ubuntu (I've been meaning to do this with my new 320GB HDD). The real question is, it's been out for a while, does anyone know if Sony's gonna release something better before a PS4, like maybe with the introduction of their wand (when is that coming out BTW)? Are the other webcams that are like $70 really that much better if at all? Or should I stick with PS3 so it's still somewhat compatible with PS3 features (both future and current). Throw in the fact that it's a PS3 eye and probably more compatible with current games, albeit ones that don't interest me either, but future games/technology like the wand. I have my MBP that I currently use, but I like the idea of my girl and I sitting on the couch talking to her parents together. The primary use of it would be for video conferencing, and I want it on my big TV. And for a webcam, that's not a lot of money. The thing is, it's only $30 on amazon, not a huge waste. ![]() ![]() And thanks for your review of the quality of the camera. After more searching looks like there is a big request for Skype on the PS3, but nothing yet (it's on the PSP though). Well thanks to some for the useless comments that didn't really address my question.īut really thanks to Taustin.
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