Macos – How to disable iSight auto adjustments

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The built-in iSight cam on my MacBook machine keeps re-adjusting the lighting (and focus I think).
I need to manually set those, but I found nothing of any use in System Preferences or System Profiler.

Any way to access the settings? Any magic terminal commands that allows access to the camera Anyone has a driver that allows for any camera access?

Best Answer

Doing some work with openCV too and went for the non technical implementation: some tape and black card, and simply covered the light sensor to the left of the camera.

Works perfectly!

The iGlasses solution doesn't address the problem as the brightness/contrast adjustments are performed by the hardware (i think) so it will affect the iGlasses input source and thus output. I imagine you can fiddle with settings to try and alleviate this effect as much as possible although will not combat it completely.

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