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I have the Microsoft LifeCam Cinema web cam. I've noticed that all of the images taken by the camera have a slight blue tint to them. Further research has shown that the light from the blue LED is being picked up internally by the sensor.

Is there any way to disable the blue LED?

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I've had a similar problem with LEDs on a laptop keyboard. I went low-tech and stuck some black insulation tape over them, so if you can't find a way to disable it... – tombull89 Jun 30 '11 at 13:43
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You picked the only web camera I have, so I plugged it in and looked at the settings in the application. There is no way to turn it off.

Since the area of the blue light is black, I would cut a small piece of black electrical tape and just cover it since it is causing issues.

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+1 for electrical tape. – music2myear Jun 30 '11 at 14:14
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As far as I know, there is no way to disable the LED without destroying it. What kind of images do you take with this webcam, that a slight blue tint disturbs you that much?

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It doesn't matter if you tape off the LED... the blue light still transmits into the camera aperture through the glass face rendering low light images useless and full light images to have a blue tint to them that flashes from frames to frames. This is junk... useless... the camera can see its own LED no matter what you do unless you open it and cut the LED lead to disable it.

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