[Macpartners] Photo Booth not working after Leopard upgrade

[Justin Anderson]

If another application is already using the camera, you'll get a  
black screen with a white "no camera" icon. If that's what you're  
seeing, try quitting everything that uses the camera until the  
camera's green LED is off, and then open PhotoBooth.

That doesn't sound like your problem though. With a little playing  
around, I've been able to reproduce the behavior you describe. If I  
rapidly shift-click on the "Effects" button, I can get into the state  
you describe where the green LED is on but PhotoBooth itself shows an  
all black camera view.

I can force PhotoBooth to go back to normal if I:
1. change to a four-up style photo (the middle choice in the  
segmented control to the left of the picture-taking button)
2. click on the picture-taking button

When PhotoBooth is done taking four photos, it briefly displays a 3D  
stylized preview of the 4-up in the main view. When it's done  
displaying that preview, PhotoBooth shows the camera correctly again.

While that is not a long-term solution, I hope this works for your  
computer as a stopgap measure until a more persistent solution can be  
found. Hopefully 10.5.2 will solve the issue entirely.

Justin Anderson
Macintosh Developer - ISDA
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
jander at mit.edu


On Feb 6, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Barbara Johnson wrote:

> This is certainly not "mission critical" but it is annoying.
> Wondering if anyone out there has seen this.
>
> After upgrading to Leopard on a MacBook the PhotoBooth program is no
> longer displaying an image from the built-in Sight camera.  It's just
> a nice soothing black background.  However, the green LED is lit.
> Other apps, iChat AV and iMovie, are able to use iSight fine so it
> doesn't appear to be a hardware issue.
>
> Have already tried standard basic troubleshooting such as sw update,
> repair permissions, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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