What's the most up-to-date way to capture an iSight/FaceTime camera image on the Mac?

Question

I would like to present a camera preview in my app, that takes a photo when you click a button. The documentation for AVFoundation looked largely iOS-specific, even on the Mac docs site. QTKit looked like it would do what I need, but it's also an older framework.

Starting a new app today, requiring OS X 10.10, what are the trade-offs of using either library, and might it be a concern that QTKit is older (perhaps it might be deprecated soon)? I also consider it a goal for the code to be as concise and expressvie as possible.

Answer 1

According to Apple, AVFoundation is the preferred framework going forward. QTKit has at least softly been deprecated.