On Jul 11, 2009, at 11:30 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote:
I have a digital camera, Product Number 36956 ($905c), and Macam 0.9.2.
Macam doesn't see this camera but Apple System Profiler does see it.
How can I see this camera? It has some pics from our most recent storm
that I want to share with family and the local news.
I think I've found the correct drivers. You may have been able to find them
yourself if you knew how, so I'll tell you exactly how I found them so you may
be able to find them for yourself next time:
1) I identified the camera better. To do this I used the #'s you provided
36956 ($905c) for a Google search in order to find the Vendor ID # which you
didn't include. Normally you need BOTH a Device ID# and Vendor ID# to identify
a piece of hardware. I determined that the Vendor ID was likely 10096 and the
Device ID was 36956.
2) Using Calculator.app, under ViewProgrammer with the Dec (decimal) button
selected, I inserted each of the decimal IDs and then hit the Hex button to
convert them to the more common hexadecimal versions, in your case these would
be 0x905c and 0x2770. I then used the search terms 0x905c 0x2770 Macintosh in
Google without the quotes.
3) In the Google search results for 0x905c 0x2770 Macintosh the 7th hit was
for macam : Support Cameras for which I selected the Cached link to get the
search terms highlighted for quicker scanning:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enclient=safarirls=en-usq=0x905c+0x2770+macintoshaq=foq=aqi=
4) The fifth row of the Cached macam : Support Cameras webpages list the
camera with your matching hexadecimal Device Vendor IDs and under Status
says depends (OEM) which means support isn't provided by Macam, but IS
provided by OEM software. In the List of Cameras above the chart, it says of
the 773 cameras in the database, 460 work in OS X, of which 401 work with
Macam, 18 with OEM supplied drivers (yours appears to be one of these lucky 18,
hurrah!).
5) In that 5th row of the Cached macam : Support Cameras webpage where your
highlighted camera is located, under the Model row, the any camera with
matching IDs is an active link, leading to this page:
http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/cameras/camera.php?id=364
Under the row Camera notes: it says:
Support for these cameras is proveded by the OEM. For example see:
http://www.spectraintl.com/xsp/ss702updates.html
BINGO! A link for the OS X driver!
6) Opps! The link is dead. No driver. Plan two. Go to the Internet Archive
Wayback Machine at:
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
and place the dead link into the Wayback Machine field and hit the Take Me
Back button.
Bingo! There are eight archived copies of this page representing seven
different versions of the page (the asterisk marks pages with changes from the
previous archived version, in this case, only one page is identical to a
preceding version). You'll want the last (most recent) archived page from Aug
06, 2007:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070806172233/http://www.spectraintl.com/xsp/ss702updates.html
7) On the Aug 06, 2007 archive page is a link for the Mac OS10 Driver for
SS702 and the OS10 Installation Instructions (pdf). These Wayback Machine
archives sometimes don't have the attached files, but if you click these links,
you are in luck, the OS X drivers for your camera are archived, and will
download if you click the links:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070806172233/http://www.spectraintl.com/xdlds/SS702%20OS.sit
http://web.archive.org/web/20070806172233/http://www.spectraintl.com/xdlds/SS702_MAC_OSX_Installation_Guide.pdf
There are also OS 9 drivers if you need them.
8) The OS X driver is a Stuffit .sit file, so this means you'll need to have
Stuffit installed in order to expand the driver file. Hopefully, this driver
file will enable your camera to finally work? I believe this is the third time
someone has asked about these cheap cameras, and the first time a download for
an actual driver has been located. Normally stuff archived on the Internet
Archive never disappear, but I'd grab these drivers and instructions fast just
in case.
I know this search process to locate these drivers was complex, but now you see
the process on how they can be located even when the drivers were deleted from
the original website over 2 years ago. Let us know if these drivers work for
you. Good luck!
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