why is webcam lighting so bad? is this the lighting the same as how people see us in real life?
The sensor in a web came is very tiny. in general with digital cameras, the larger the sensor, the more light can enter into the frame, the cleaner the picture. A web cam compensates the low light and tiny sensor by increasing the gain (or digital iso) of the signal, which introduces digital noise. This happens with all cameras, even professional broadcast and digital cinema cameras. the difference is the sensor size and the amount of lights used. If you want to improve the quality, try lighting your face with your desk lamps (atleast two, and possibly a lamp lighting the back of your head if you want to be fancy) Also you could try replacing your 60w bulbs with 60w CFls. CFLs output more light then a indecent at the same wattage. So a 60w CFL will output about the equiv of a 120w bulb. so two or three cfl lamps outputting 300w worth of light should be enough to effectively light someone close up.
there is no such thing as webcam lighting. The perceived light is ambient light coming from the room you are in. The more light there is in the room, the better the 'webcam lighting'. How would you perceive a person in a dark room as compared to one in a bright room?
No, yet some human beings have eyes that make watching a organic blue easy puzzling. My father watching blue Christmas tree lights could see slightly crimson tab off to a minimum of one side. whilst he asked to purchase a string like those on show via asserting this - thinking it replaced right into a particular coating - the clerk had no thought what he replaced into speaking approximately. He actual stopped shoppers in the aisle and asked them in the event that they observed the tab and a pair of one/3, as I bear in mind, observed it and the rest did not.
Most every webcam shot I see is only taken by the light of the computer monitor, which is not a bright enough light on the face and is also the totally wrong color temperature for correct skin tones. Even if more light is put on the subject, it is typically tungsten light which will make a person look orange. Lastly, even if you get a good, color correct light on the subject, a webcam is the lousiest piece of junk excuse for a camera in existence, even worse than a cell phone. So NOTHING anyone does is going to result in a good webcam photo. steve
