Well--AppleInsider had given a review of the MBA one thing they mentioned was that the iSight camera was of a lower quality compared to the iSight cameras on other MacBooks or MacBook Pros. It's been discussed in a few threads at least:
Not sure about the lagging you're experiencing, but folks are basically in agreement--the images captured by the iSight camera are "softer" than images captured by other MacBooks/MacBook Pro's.
I have a MBP beside my MBA tested both camera in Photo booth the quality of the MBP is much better then the MBA the Air looks all grainy. We know that the MBP has a 1.3 mega pixel camera what does the Air have??
Well...I think only Apple knows for sure because it just says the MBA has an iSight camera but conveniently doesn't mention what its exact resolution is in the tech specs. AppleInsider guessed the resolution might've been around 0.3, if I remember right? Or else--I think AppleInsider said that other ultraportables or thin/light notebooks typically either don't have an integrated camera at all, or they have a low-quality 0.3 megapixel one, and Apple seems to have followed suit with the iSight camera built into the MBA.
Odd...then apparently the MBA's iSight camera has a 1.3 megapixel camera too? But why does the picture/video quality look bad, then? What else is going on here--and can any of it be fixed/improved with future software/firmware updates, maybe? I don't want to jump to conclusions just yet, but this iSight issue is reminding me of the "negative black" phenomenon associated with week 36/37 iPod touches. By the time I got my "week 38" iPod touch, Apple had put out a firmware update of some kind that helped improve picture quality and get rid of the negative black phenomenon that people were talking about. It made some folks happy and other folks, well...not so happy...because there was evidence that suggested there was a physical problem with those first two batches of iPod touches and what those people wanted was a replacement iPod touch, not a firmware update, to fix devices that had physical problems, not programming/software ones.
I know this case is different--I'm assuming that there's nothing physically wrong with the iSight camera in the first MBA's that folks have gotten, and the resolution of the MBA's iSight camera is what it should be--but yeah. Can't help thinking back to that "negative black" issue anyway. 😟
I just got a MacBook Air today and I noticed the same thing. I put it next to my MacBook and noticed that pictures from the MacBook Air are really blurry compared to my MacBook. I'm not sure why this is considering that it is the same iSight camera.
No, it's not. Haven't you read the rest of this thread so far? Or read appleinsider.com's review of the MBA? Page 5 of that review says that the MBA's built-in iSight camera is NOT the same as ones on the MacBook or MacBook Pro and the MBA's camera is most likely a low-resolution, 0.3 megapixel camera.
