You can use Photo Booth in the Applications folder to take pictures and movies using the built in camera. Check out the special effects too.
The camera is turned on by any application that uses it.
For example Photobooth, Messages, Skype, and QQ.
The camera built into current Macs (including the iMac, the Macbook, the Macbook Air, and the Macbook Pro) is known as the iSight
Yes. The new Macbook Air does have a frontward facing FaceTime camera.
Yes, There is a camera
In older MacBook Pro models, it was located within the speaker grills. In newer MacBook Pro models, there is a tiny dot to the left of the iSight camera. This is the ambient light sensor - not the camera itself as is widely mistaken.
Yes they are, just plug your camera in, and you are ready to go!
She uses her webcam a lot. She has a MacBook by Apple.
Nope. Not without buying additional software.
Another application might be opened where the camera is activated. If that is the case then quit that application in order for you to use the camera. Maybe something like skype is opened......
In a recent Apple update they fixed an issue with importing. Should work now. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2267809
The MacBook Air has a built in iSight camera. To add another camera you would need to specify what you wanted to achieve that you could not with the iSight.
The MacBook's DVD Player software will play all standard DVDs inserted into the DVD drive on the side of the MacBook.
Plug it in via USB then use Image Capture to import.