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Poor Face Illumination

I am using Facetime on an iMac with Mountain Lion. The room light casts my face in shadow. Is there any way of using the iMac screen as a light source to illuminate my face?

Posted on Feb 1, 2013 11:59 AM

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Posted on Feb 1, 2013 1:12 PM

Brian,


I would not consider the imac screen to be a good source of facial lighting for facetime. We are using a small desktop lamp here, with an adjustable gooseneck extension. It works very well as a source of facial lighting with a 15 watt compact flourescent bulb. The flourescent lighting is great because it gives off a nice blue white light which works well with the built in iCamera. I suppose an ordinary incadescent bulb would work, although the lighting would be kind of yellowish.

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Feb 1, 2013 1:12 PM in response to UKBrian

Brian,


I would not consider the imac screen to be a good source of facial lighting for facetime. We are using a small desktop lamp here, with an adjustable gooseneck extension. It works very well as a source of facial lighting with a 15 watt compact flourescent bulb. The flourescent lighting is great because it gives off a nice blue white light which works well with the built in iCamera. I suppose an ordinary incadescent bulb would work, although the lighting would be kind of yellowish.

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