Using digital camera for a webcam

[MadKad]

I don’t know if this can be done but I thought some one here might know, can you use a digital camera as a webcam?

[Minxy]

Good question... I don't know (I can use my cam as a camera, but I dunno or it's the other way around too...)

[MadKad]

I was thinking about it the other day and I thought there must be a way

[clarise]

Some digital cameras have webcam functionality. There are even 3-in-1 cameras, that is, digital camera, webcam, and camcorder all in one. However, I don't suppose the product is all that great, specially since they come in cheap. The manufacturers are not the highly commercialized ones like Canon and Sony. But of course, I may be wrong.

[MadKad]

Thank you clarise, I was looking into it and gave up with the idea, I was just hoping some one here might have had a play with this idea and done it, as I do know that mobile phones have been made into webcams

[clarise]

You are welcome, MadKad! Some years ago, I was looking at a Canon Poweshot and asked the salesman if it has got webcam functionality and he said yes. I didn't believe him, so I settled on buying my Olympus C350. It still works fine but without the webcam function I was looking for. Are you going to buy one of those 3-in-1 cameras?

[Thisn2s]

The webcam function has been heavily implemented in digital cameras lately. Heck, even the new 3CCD digital video cameras have them!

Impressively, they do a good job for a web camera. Usually multi-function gadgets are jack-of-all-trades-but-master-of-none thingamajigs. I guess that's what technology development (and obsolescence) bear in yearly intervals

[macdaid]

you connect your digital camera with your computer throug the USB and then put the Driver CD of your digital camera install it,then it will work

[linda]

Firstaly Connect You devices then try to install It,s hardware driver Beacuase without driver may this not work.After installing now you can use Very easy like a CAKE