Q: 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 *****.