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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.

After I upgraded my 2019 MacBook Pro to 10.15 Catalina the Finder and Image Capture both fail to read SDXC cards formatted by the XT-2. The cards are Lexar 128GB Professional 1000x UHS-II SDXC Memory Card. Disk Utility can't repair the card, every app that tries to read from the ExFat formatted cards ends up needing to be Force Quit. I can dual boot into Mohave and read the cards fine using Finder, any app works too in Mohave. I could understand incompatibility with third party apps, but this is ridiculous. I can read from Fat32 formatted Compact Flash fine, but the ExFat formatted SDXC cards fail every time. I am using a Sanyo Hyperdrive to connect the SD card to the MacBook Pro. I called Apple Support only to be put on hold for almost an hour trying to reach support personnel for Creative Professionals and then have Apple hang up on me. I have been a lifelong Apple user, but this is alarming. Anyone else having issues like this in Catalina?

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?

I'm using my X-S10 as a webcam using the latest version of XWebcam, on an M1 Macbook pro, recently updated to Sonoma 14.4.1. I've done the additional steps to enable external cameras here (system-override legacy-camera-plugins-without-sw-camera-indication=off) and have downloaded the latest version of XWebcam with the additional extension to enable my mac to connect to the XS-10 which it does successfully now, albeit inconsistently and with crashes. I've noticed that the 'com.fujifilm.xwebcam.CameraExtension' will sometimes hang and cause the camera to not be found and will need to be rebooted in order for my applications to find my camera again. Additionally, after successfully using xwebcam for a teams call, the memory footprint of the com.fujifilm.xwebcam.CameraExtension process blows up to 9GB which seems absurd. Looking for any guidance or updates to the camera extension for making this actually work in a usable way.