MacBook Pro iSights See 1.3 MP Upgrade
ECamm's developer blog, Mac Daddy World, has noticed that new Santa Rosa based MacBook Pros include upgraded iSights sporting a 1.3 mega-pixel camera.
Previous integrated and now-discontinued standalone iSights contained a VGA resolution iSight. While it appears as though Apple's built-in applications such as iChat still force the resolution to VGA quality, any application could theoretically take advantage of the increased resolution as of the Mac OS 10.4.10 update according to the developers.
Previous integrated and now-discontinued standalone iSights contained a VGA resolution iSight. While it appears as though Apple's built-in applications such as iChat still force the resolution to VGA quality, any application could theoretically take advantage of the increased resolution as of the Mac OS 10.4.10 update according to the developers.
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60 months ago
Good news.
Especially with all the recent hubbub about YouTube videos -- playable on iPhone, playable on Apple TV, encoding to h.264 -- flooding the market with high quality webcams instead of the $15 Wal-Mart trash is a Very Good Thing.
Especially with all the recent hubbub about YouTube videos -- playable on iPhone, playable on Apple TV, encoding to h.264 -- flooding the market with high quality webcams instead of the $15 Wal-Mart trash is a Very Good Thing.
60 months ago
Maybe Leopard or the next iLife will have a 1.3MP video capture app designed especially for making an ass of yourself in high resolution on Youtube. :D
60 months ago
Kinda neat, but how come they didn't put it on the specs to help sell the new mbp?
60 months ago
Had it for a week and haven't noticed. Shows how little I bother to use the iSight.
60 months ago
I wonder if it's more to do with backdrops in PhotoBooth. Somebody I talk to online (who is also a member of these forums) has downloaded and uses Leopard, and it looks like either Backdrops are VERY unfinished or iSights are not outputting a consistent enough image for it to work. Certain parts of the background just seem to re-appear, and I could understand why when you look at the noise produced by the iSight. I guess this new higher resolution one is less 'noisy'.
60 months ago
Hopefully that means we'll get the standalone version of the iSight back again.
Steffen
Steffen
60 months ago
Now that's an oxymoron if I ever saw one.
I thought the scoop was that the transition to H.264 was going to allow this.
But if not oxymoron, still irony, at the least. Higher resolution copies of more and more crap. :D
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