Re: Is there a picture ??

To: Oliver <oliver@aec.at>
Subject: Re: Is there a picture ??
From: Russell Brown <russell@lutton.lls.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 09:10:38 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: paul@ixs.nl, linux-connectix@crynwr.com
From lutton.lls.com!russell Tue Jan 9 05: 56:53 1996
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960108205246.4386A-100000@web.aec.at> from "Oliver" at Jan 8, 96 08:56:04 pm

Quoth Oliver.....
>
>I'd first like to thank Scott Laird and Russell Nelson and the others for 
>their work ...

Seconded.

>> when i look at the picture, it's almost blank..
>
>i have about the same problems, getting images consisting mainly of pure 
>white with some grey flares, even NOT using any filters like cjpeg, but 
>looking at the original PGM with xv .

I had much the same; before my Quickcam went belly up....

Adjusting the controls in xqcam (especially the brightness) suddenly
makes the picture appear.  

FYI, the optimal settings I found for *my* camera were

	xqcam -c 140 -b 185 -w 155 -B 6

I'll see if the replacement Quickcam is different.

-- 
Regards,
        Russell
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