Facetime HD camera settings? the brightness on my camera is set too high, faces are washed out. where can I adjust this?

There are no camera settings which you can use to address this problem. About the only thing you can due is to adjust the lighting to a level which will allow a reasonable exposure to your face.

Same here with my iMac 27 (Late 2012). I am really disappointed about the quality of the FaceTime HD Camera. The one I had in my Cinema HD Display (the camera was not HD) was much better.

Is it a problem of my iMac or is the quality of every FaceTime Camera in new iMacs so poor? My iPad 3 and my iPhone 4S got better FaceTime cameras.

What is the brightness of the background to the room you are in? If it is predominantly dark behind you then the auto exposure will try and compensate but in the process it will wash out faces. Evenly exposed scenes will display correctly.

Solution: tun on lights in room to illumiate evenly. avoid contrast. Get closer to camera...then your face will occupy majority of frame and the exposure will be adjusted to accommodate the predominate subject.. your face.

(1) reduce the brightness on your Mac's monitor or move back from the camera another foot or two.

(2) alternatively, iGlasses 3 add-on software

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Mac OSX 10.8.3

Imac 27", Late 2012,

I also face a problem with the built-in camera which gives an image with a strong magenta dominant. Wether daylight or articial it's the same ugly image.

and I dont want to pay 20$ for iGlasses, to correct a disfunction !

APPLE, please include settings of the camera in your next OsX update.

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Mac OSX 10.8.3

If your iphone appears to have a better camera then do a side by side comparison with same viewpoint and so exposure as the iMac.

Even exposure of a consistent contrast subject is the key. Window dominant in background = silhouette. Black background with face lit will over expose the face

If your iphone appears to have a better camera then do a side by side comparison with same viewpoint and so exposure as the iMac.

Even exposure of a consistent contrast subject is the key. Window dominant in background = silhouette. Black background with face lit will over expose the face

Good idea. First, picture taken with the iMac's camera, no filter applied, second picture is taken with iPhone 5 from the same point of view at the same time... no need to say more

My iMac HD camera is so bad I have to turn off all lights in the room, close all curtains, and still the picture is over exposed. Looks perfectly normal on my iPhone. iMac camera *****.

Even though you are not communicating with Apple, this is a good venue to list the problems going on at Apple. Apple Feedback does not appear to be effective, as I've been using it for years and haven't seen one of my feedback issues resolved.

For example: I've reported the Move & Scale issue of the lock screen photo since iOS 7 was released September 18, 2013. It's been over three years and we've gone through iOS 7, 8, 9 and now 10, with all the different versions of each, and I've reported the issue there each time a new update comes out without a fix, and still no repair from Apple. Not one of the issues I've reported over the years has ever been fixed using feedback. When one is fixed that I've reported on that system, I'll consider it effective. Until then, it is just a place that Apple uses to keep people from writing it up here.

Until then, we'd all like a way to adjust the blooming out without someone suggesting that I sit against my back wall to make my face look less bright or buying another software or app to get basic features to work on Apple systems. Work arounds are for PC and Microsoft users. Working correctly is for Apple... or it used to be.

Apple needs settings to keep people from looking like a white sheet, using their BUILT IN CAMERAS, period.