Andy Knight

I'm posting this in General Discussion because there's no discrete topic for X Webcam. There should be because so many people find it problematic! There are many frustrated people who've been trying to get X Webcam to work on macOS 11.x (Big Sur) If you check the System Requirements on this page you will see that X Webcam is only supported on macOS versions 10.12 -> 10.15 What I find truly astonishing is that the latest version of X Webcam (v2.1) was released in early 2021 and macOS Big Sur was GA in November 2020. Why would anyone release a piece of software that patently doesn't work on the current version of any particular operating system?

According to this document, macOS 11.x (Big Sur) is not supported. I've attached a screenshot of the relevant section.

According to this FUJIFILM documentation, X Webcam is "Operation confirmed" for various applications on both Windows and macOS as at 3rd February 2021. It is disconcerting to read further on that same page that Big Sur is, implicitly, not supported [ see attached image ]. Big Sur was GA in November 2020!!!! Nikon, who are typically just as awful with their consumer software, have Webcam Utility that works perfectly on Big Sur. I'll be using that with my Z6. I'll probably give my X100V to the kids.

Camera is still not being detected even with latest software/firmware I'm running macOS 11.2.1 on an iMac Pro X Webcam v2.1 X100V with firmware v2.0 I've tried a couple of different cables. Both take USB power (the green LED on the camera is illuminated). Both are capable of transferring images from the camera to the iMac. But when I (manually) start X Webcam, all the controls are disabled. There's another clue... In X Webcam, I have checked "Launch when camera detected". However, with X Webcam not running, I connect and switch on the camera but the application doesn't start. Therefore, it's clear (to me anyway) that the camera isn't being detected. I've raised this with Fujifilm technical support (here in the UK). They'll probably pass the buck to their developers and I'll hear no more but it's worth a try. Edit: See attached image. This is after a restart with camera switched ON. Note that the camera is clearly not being detected at USB level Edit 2: There are two further observations that may give a clue to what's going on. 1. When connected to the USB 3.0 Bus, the camera does not show up in System Report (see above). However, it is detected by Lightroom, Image Capture etc and I am able to download / import images. I do not understand that. 2. If I connect to the USB 3.1 Bus (Thunderbolt) the camera is revealed in System Report as "USB PTP Camera". Unfortunately, using this Bus still doesn't encourage X Webcam to behave properly. Image import works perfectly on the USB 3.1 Bus. Final edit: I've found the answer. X Webcam is not supported on macOS 11.x. See this document