Funny how many laptops today come with webcams that are way worse in quality than this. This appears to have the same type of quality you would find in a Video8 camcorder of the time.
You know whats sad, this camera is old and can still be useful, a modern usb webcam would be useless in probably 5 to 10 years if it hasn’t failed before then, and this camera has some decent construction.
I think my school in 1995 had one power mac online if you can beleive that and I beleive they did do video calling I can remember randomly walking into the higher grades and they were video conferencing with another school right on an all in one power mac. The younger grades had no connection but a few of the higher up grades had it. They had all the macs networked and shared printers to very impressive for that time.
Very nice, I still have my USRobotics modem, it's the fancy big DSP model where the firmware can be updated, originally I bought it as a 19k2 baud modem, but after a year or so it was software updated to a 56k. I also have a Connectix Quickcam that I bought back in the early 90s, it's B/W only and uses the parallel port as it's from before USB existed, With the modem and the webcam you could do video calls at somewhere between 1 frame/sec to 3 seconds/frame. And from what I remember the best free video call software was named iPhone.
Quite an impressive picture from that old camera, especially the closeups. I had a USRobotics 56K modem back in the day before DSL and it was the best modem of it's type I'd ever had.
I believe the camera quality is made in Wales before move to China. I remember seeing the video from UXWBill about USRobotics camera that he posted to his YT page.
It very well could have been made in Wales as that's where the Sony factory was. The first and second generation raspberry pies all came out of that plant. I have two first generation raspberry pies that play video 24 hours a day onto a couple of modulators so that I can have content to watch on my old televisions. They've been going for at least 10 years Non-Stop. The Sony factory in Wales also turns out they're really high-end cameras. The ones used by filmmakers around the world to make motion pictures.
I’m shocked that its Color considering its from the late 80s, it must have cost fortune. Great picture quality too. I would 3d print a custom case for it and use it as a camera for when someone rings the doorbell
Sony CCD and Phillips chipset, so likely was made in Japan. Remember similar ones that used an ISA card to do the capture, and for free the capture card, because it was based on the Avermedia chipset, would support a tuner, either it came with the card, or it was simply added on by soldering in the I2C tuner, which then gave you a TV tuner that supported PAL, NTSC (if the appropriate crystals were added to the converter chip) and SECAM standards, all selectable, and all types of sound carrier offset. Your one probably is NTSC, so to add PAL you would have had to add the 4.33MHz crystal, in the pads next to the 3.57MHz one. Here by me those 3.57MHz ones were hard to get, normally you would "borrow" one from a damaged touch tone phone keyboard, as that was the original crystal they used, and NTSC was not common in PAL countries. Of course you had to use different software then, as the camera software was a crippled version, locking out the TV tuner side, and also most of the capability of the chipset, other than the PIP on supported video cards. Camera video was great, the stuff out the card though was not, often QVGA with 16 colours only, though the CCD and camera was quite capable of VGA and 16 million colour as direct to screen capture. Still sucked frame rate wise though, you only got 10FPS.
A good piece of history. I bet it cost a lot when it was being sold.
Funny how many laptops today come with webcams that are way worse in quality than this. This appears to have the same type of quality you would find in a Video8 camcorder of the time.
My laptop has no camera.
You know whats sad, this camera is old and can still be useful, a modern usb webcam would be useless in probably 5 to 10 years if it hasn’t failed before then, and this camera has some decent construction.
I think my school in 1995 had one power mac online if you can beleive that and I beleive they did do video calling I can remember randomly walking into the higher grades and they were video conferencing with another school right on an all in one power mac. The younger grades had no connection but a few of the higher up grades had it. They had all the macs networked and shared printers to very impressive for that time.
Very nice, I still have my USRobotics modem, it's the fancy big DSP model where the firmware can be updated, originally I bought it as a 19k2 baud modem, but after a year or so it was software updated to a 56k. I also have a Connectix Quickcam that I bought back in the early 90s, it's B/W only and uses the parallel port as it's from before USB existed, With the modem and the webcam you could do video calls at somewhere between 1 frame/sec to 3 seconds/frame. And from what I remember the best free video call software was named iPhone.
Quite an impressive picture from that old camera, especially the closeups. I had a USRobotics 56K modem back in the day before DSL and it was the best modem of it's type I'd ever had.
Good picture for its age.
I believe the camera quality is made in Wales before move to China. I remember seeing the video from UXWBill about USRobotics camera that he posted to his YT page.
It very well could have been made in Wales as that's where the Sony factory was. The first and second generation raspberry pies all came out of that plant. I have two first generation raspberry pies that play video 24 hours a day onto a couple of modulators so that I can have content to watch on my old televisions. They've been going for at least 10 years Non-Stop. The Sony factory in Wales also turns out they're really high-end cameras. The ones used by filmmakers around the world to make motion pictures.
I’m shocked that its Color considering its from the late 80s, it must have cost fortune. Great picture quality too. I would 3d print a custom case for it and use it as a camera for when someone rings the doorbell
its not from the 80s, look at it. its from around 1997. Dave is in a time warp.
1995 is when usb came out and webcams with usb came oit in 1996/1997 I assume 1993 1994 @@RalphRacc00N
@@RalphRacc00Niit would've had USB
@@tacofortgens3471 Ok its from 1994-96 then. no one used USB at first. usb 1.0 didn't work till USB 1.1 with Windows 95B.
Sony CCD and Phillips chipset, so likely was made in Japan. Remember similar ones that used an ISA card to do the capture, and for free the capture card, because it was based on the Avermedia chipset, would support a tuner, either it came with the card, or it was simply added on by soldering in the I2C tuner, which then gave you a TV tuner that supported PAL, NTSC (if the appropriate crystals were added to the converter chip) and SECAM standards, all selectable, and all types of sound carrier offset. Your one probably is NTSC, so to add PAL you would have had to add the 4.33MHz crystal, in the pads next to the 3.57MHz one.
Here by me those 3.57MHz ones were hard to get, normally you would "borrow" one from a damaged touch tone phone keyboard, as that was the original crystal they used, and NTSC was not common in PAL countries. Of course you had to use different software then, as the camera software was a crippled version, locking out the TV tuner side, and also most of the capability of the chipset, other than the PIP on supported video cards. Camera video was great, the stuff out the card though was not, often QVGA with 16 colours only, though the CCD and camera was quite capable of VGA and 16 million colour as direct to screen capture. Still sucked frame rate wise though, you only got 10FPS.
Yes ntsc. I used it as security camera.
I would have thought Mid to late 90s?
Earpy to mid 90s as USB came out in 1996
it looks very similar to the Philips VCM7310, in that case it could be made in Holland. It could be a rebranded model.
Sorry, I cannot post the URL of the specs. You will have to google it.
nice good score
Can you tell if an image sensor is CCD or CMOS just by looking at it?
CCD require a ton of support components. Cmos is generally SOC. (System on chip)
Pffff... I had a QuickCam by Connectix, seriell interface.. 160 × 120
The opposite of ultra HD lol 😅
How on earth is a webcam supposed to work that early? Especially one with such great image quality? It's not military?
it was powered by a spliced ps2/din cable adapter
Yes i believe it was either off the mouse or keyboard
I've heard of the name, but never had a product.
i cant see how it could be useful now, throw it at the bin lol.
Usrobotics made comouter gear like logitech