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Hi I recently bought a used ASUS R500A-BB71-CB laptop. It had Windows 8.1 installed but was riddled with malware and did not have the original recovery disks or partition. I installed a clean copy of Windows 7 Home Premium and used the Windows COA from the bottom of the laptop to activate. Everything seemed fine after installing all of the drivers on the ASUS site for the R500A. I then tried out the webcam and am surprised at how bad it is. I am just wondering if this is as good as I can expect from this webcam or is there something wrong? Color palette looks 256 colors.
I checked out the device driver and its:
USB2.0 UVC VGA WebCam
Microsoft - 6/21/2006 - 6.1.7601.18208
USB\VID_13D3&PID_5710&REV_1130&MI_00
USB\VID_13D3&PID_5710&MI_00
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It looks like the laptop was originally designed for windows 8, so the windows 7 driver for the camera may be unsupported. That said the camera is rated at .3 (Thats point three) megapixels, so yea its a crappy camera.
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Nope, even my 1k asus laptop with 1080p ips screen has a pretty sad 720p webcam. They are designed to be functional, not to record and take pictures you want to save.
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Here is a better example of how bad the built-in webcam is. I have used the same program to capture the images on the same laptop. One picture was captured using the built-in webcam and the other was captured using an external webcam plugged into a USB port.
If you can't guess which is which, the image from the built-in webcam is on the left. To get the full effect you have to click on the picture to get the bigger image. Both are 640x480 which I use for skype.
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it looks like if you give it enough light its ok. It looks like all that banding is a feature of either the hardware or software to smooth out the massive amount of noise that happens in low light.
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Prostar Computer Company Representative
Integrated laptop webcams are often terrible when it comes to ISO, but then the optics and electronics that make for better cameras aren't being squeezed into a 10 - 12 mm space.
ASUS R500A-BB71-CB webcam issues
Discussion in 'Asus' started by ASUSR500A, Apr 20, 2014.