Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Mar 11, 2009, at 7:41 AM, nestamicky wrote: > > >>> They exaggerate greatly, no way are these cameras truly 1.3 >>> megapixels. >>> >>> I was playing with mine and at that resolution (1280x1024) there were >>> horrible, horrible jaggies in the image. >>> > > > Well, upon further experimentation, the jaggies were the result of two > things: the low light conditions, and some peculiarities with their > snapshot function. Here is a test image taken under better conditions. > > <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/hue.html> > > (Student group had a bake sale this morning...) > > Bottom line, it looks as though the claimed resolution of 1280 x 1024 > (1.3 megapixels) is based on an interlaced video signal. The snapshot > takes one frame. > > The true resolution of the CCD is very likely 640x512, so when it's > blown up to full claimed resolution it looks like crap. Their included > video monitor properly interlaces both frames and displays it as a > single image on the screen, so the OS screen cap looks better. > > Not exactly false advertising, but quite close, imo. It could also > just be the Mac driver, as well. I haven't installed it under Windows > to see what it looks like there. > > As a video chat camera, under good lighting, it's looks to be a good > webcam...it's just too bad it isn't a USB2 camera, so it works > natively with iChat. > Until your last comment about USB2, I believed that iChat will only work with Firewire camera's. You learn everyday, if you're willing and ready to. Thanks a lot Bruce.
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