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Li
How to use my cellphone's camera as a webcam ?
Feb 3rd, 2010, 6:20pm  
Hey,I am wondering how can I  use my cellphone's camera as a webcam for my laptop?

my cellphone has bluetooth connection ,so does my laptop.

Is there any way that I can make my cellphone's camera work as a webcam?

thanks
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JohnS
Re: How to use my cellphone's camera as a webcam ?
Reply #1 - Feb 3rd, 2010, 9:25pm  
Depending on your phone, you should be able to connect with USB cable.  You can also save your video on your phone and upload to laptop or email file to yourself.
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jason12345
Re: How to use my cellphone's camera as a webcam ?
Reply #2 - Feb 4th, 2010, 7:33pm  
Li wrote on Feb 3rd, 2010, 6:20pm:
Hey,I am wondering how can I  use my cellphone's camera as a webcam for my laptop

my cellphone has bluetooth connection ,so does my laptop.

Is there any way that I can make my cellphone's camera work as a webcam

thanks



I believe you can naturally download your pictures through a usb cable. I don't think you can use it for a web cam though.
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JohnS
Re: How to use my cellphone's camera as a webcam ?
Reply #3 - Feb 6th, 2010, 11:29pm  
LI,
I left a post trying to answer your question. So were you able to get it working? Cheesy
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mattiorgan
Re: How to use my cellphone's camera as a webcam ?
Reply #4 - Feb 7th, 2010, 4:47pm  
Presently I am doing my final year project on this in Uni. Try the QIK platform or the Movinio package which is open source so you can change it to suit your needs. The system I am trying to develop is a WIFI networked system of camera phones. These phone will send content to a editing application I am building in Max/Msp. If anyone here has any knowledge on developing applications on the symbian 60 platform I would like to hear from you.
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JohnS
Re: How to use my cellphone's camera as a webcam ?
Reply #5 - Feb 19th, 2010, 11:43pm  
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I think that with the current price of cheap webcams of around $15 - $25 here in the UK there seems little reason to use your phone.

That's the best idea yet.  It's cheap and simple.  No headaches about hooking your phone to anything. Grin
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HarryLegliojo
Re: How to use my cellphone's camera as a webcam ?
Reply #6 - Feb 26th, 2010, 1:58pm  
Does anyone know of a specific app to control the iphone camera from a laptop?
Or better yet, to give iphone a video cam using software on the laptop, seeing as it only has a static photo cam?  Smiley
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eduzal
Re: How to use my cellphone's camera as a webcam ?
Reply #7 - Mar 11th, 2010, 1:29pm  
if you have Nokia phones, or other that use symbian, you can use the Movino App. I used it and i could load images from my cellphone into modul8.
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