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how can I change the shutter speed of my webcam in Linux?

I'm using fedora 14

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Most webcams, being optimized for capturing video data in a tiny size and budget, don't have shutters at all and thus shutter speed is an irrelevant setting. Really good ones might have some kind of aperture control. Generally they will just use the drivers to set different sensitivities on the capture chip and do post processing to get a reasonably lighted picture.

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If it's possible at all, it depends on the model. It won't be possible with simple, built in webcams.

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