Try going onto settings. Make the Focus manual, everything manual, and just fiddle around with it until you feel like it's at the right spot. Hope this helps.

The image looks a little yellow. (I'm not refering to their faces!!). I get this when the lighting is too dim, increase your lighting dramatically. very very bright. set the camera to its default settings in auto and wait for the camera to adjust, have a look at the positions of the sliders and then go to all manual. This gives you a good starting point for adjustments.

Try to use frame averaging also as this will get rid of a lot of that annoying pixel flickering.

Just one other thing to try is that this image appears to be highly compressed. The pixel squares are the result of jpeg compression (8x8 sampling). Is this just so you could post the image here, or is this how it comes out from your editor? Try capturing a still image with the logitech software and see if its any better. if so, its your editing method not the camera. If its bad, try reinstalling your camera. Connect SOFTWARE before connecting your camera.

Greaseproof paper??? Try using normal white printer paper.

Then either turn up your exposure or try tracing paper. Greaseproof paper is definitely going to make it a weird colour.

I suggest you do get a fexible light. I use two Angle Poiser lights. Whilst you only need one, they should be bright enough and able to light the whole set. The bigger the better.

-MRB

This is looking much better, I think you need more light. If you are using 240v lighting, you will melt your lego. Try to get a lamp which uses halogen lamp bulbs, they are cooler as they run through a transformer at 12v, or some strip (tube) lighting. Places like Ikea in Europe do then for about £10 - £15.

Heres an image from a logitech qc9000. Remember this has been compressed for display on a webpage so the actual quality is much better. This was taken with one halogen lamp placed about 30cm above the figures. I didn't bother with any paper over the light, so the shadows are a bit harsh.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/martincprice … log_01.jpg

I still suspect your driver may not be installed correctly. A big hint that this is the case is that the resolutions your offered in your capture software doesn't give you 1600x1200 as an option but something less as the maximum resolution. I read your posts earlier and you mentioned 960 x 720, if this is the maximum you can get its certain to be the driver as I had the same issue. Completely uninstall the camera , reboot, then insert the driver cd. Connect the camera only when told to do so by the software. This cures the problem and you get a full 1600 x 1200 resolution.

When you have time take some stills using the logitech software, this way you can then determine once and for all whether the fault is with the camera or later on in your method of animation (ie capture software or editor / compression)

Last edited by martinprice2004 (February 21, 2009 (04:49pm))