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No, you can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That will be $5 – Roman Zipp (romanzipp.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't the first ever webcam just a regular camera that took shots of the office coffee pot? I'm pretty sure it was a bespoke script

I also remember the dude who made a homebrew app for his DS to control his Canon DSLR for long exposure shots because the alternative was to drag a fat laptop around or buy a $300 Canon PDA.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

regular camera that took shots of the office coffee pot?

well it predated 'digital' cameras, was around when film was still big - 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

128x128px greyscale feed was achieved with a video camera connected to an Acorn Archimedes quipped with a video capture card.