>What happens if you select your DV camera in the iChat preferences,
>quit iChat, then try to scan using Books?

No effect. The iSight still turns on even when iChat is set to use the
DV cam. Books doesn't use a separate driver for the camera than the
OS, does it? The method of "disabling" the iSight that I previously
mentioned seems to basically be just delete the driver, if I'm not
mistaken.
By the way, I'm still using OS X Tiger, I don't know if that makes a
difference though.

Thanks,
Isaac

--- In books_users@yahoogroups.com, Chris Karr <cjkarr@...> wrote:
>
> There doesn't seem to be a system preference to choose the default
> camera. However, you can change cameras in the iChat preferences. What
> happens if you select your DV camera in the iChat preferences, quit
> iChat, then try to scan using Books?
>
> This might be a short term fix until I add a preference into Books.
>
> -Chris
>
>
> On Sep 27, 2008, at 1:31 PM, canalnoises wrote:
>
> > The built in iSight camera in my aluminum iMac isn't working very
> > well for scanning UPCs. Books' help file says other cameras can be
> > used to scan books, but I can't figure out how to tell the program
> > to use a different camera. I even disabled my iSight, and Books was
> > still using it! I have a MiniDV camcorder connected with Firewire,
> > and apps like iChat can use it to display live video on my computer.
> > Is there any way I can force Books to use my Firewire camera?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Isaac
>