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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey View Post
Could be a couple of things.

Being broadcast wirelessly you said?

Could be a limitation of the wireless device.

What outputs does the thing have?

Also could be monitor calibration, remember the LCD on the camera is most likely calibrated for itself whereas you PC's monitor is calibrated differently.

Remember you can dual head a PC and have identical out of the box displays that you can "make" look very different.
Yes, this was an impulse wireless buy....

I don't think it is a limitation of the device - well, not totally. As I said, using my video camera as a "monitor", the image is rather bright and you can make out detail and see. * Plugging in the receiver to the vid cam.

Plug the receiver into my computer (old hauppauge WinTV card) and the video is dark and no detail.

There are no rightness/contrast adjustments on the wireless units (cam/receiver) and I really doubt the the camera actually has aperture.

I remember that QuickCam software used to allow me to adjust brightness/contrast for the QC cameras. I was hoping that I could use their software, but the newest SW does not see the capture device.

I could crank up the brightness on the computer monitor, but then everything else would be washed out.

I was hoping that there was SW (free) that had a little control for brightness/contrast...

I'll try and take a few pix a little later to better show what I mean.

Thanks!
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