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. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
