$500 phone camera: Shoots 4K, night mode, AI magic, makes you look like a superstar. $2500 laptop webcam: 720p potato, makes you look like you just woke up in 2009.
$500 phone camera: Shoots 4K, night mode, AI magic, makes you look like a superstar. $2500 laptop webcam: 720p potato, makes you look like you just woke up in 2009.
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Now compare how games look on them
because the phones SOC has hardware specific optimizations for making camera images more sharp, the laptop does not.
For example strictly in the PC space, one of the (few) advantages that the Qualcomm Snapdron X Elite chips have over conventional x86 processors is its image processing.
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Your phone does all kinds of image post processing, on a PC the USB webcam protocol only has like white balance, exposure, and contrast adjustment.
How often do you use your laptop camera?
The only time you use it is for online video calls and there’s a high chance that anyone who does streams or frequent meetings already own a dedicated video camera.
Soo… what’s the point?
I’d honestly take a 720p camera over an ugly ass notch that ruins any media I consume with a good video camera (looking at you apple)
Just buy a cheaper laptop and a better camera.
Selfies are more important than videoconfetence
That’s why I hook up a 1800€ camera to the computer.
Fun fact: Android phones have this built in feature where they can act as webcams when plugged into a PC. Why spend like $100 on some crummy webcam that’s still only like 1080p 60fps with terrible colours and picture quality, when you can use the device that delivers damn near DSLR quality that you already own?
If you dont finger yourself in front of your laptop for money, it doesn’t matter.
it’s because of how thin laptop display assemblies are, phone cameras are HUGE compared to laptop webcams, you’d need the laptop’s display assembly to be close to 10mm thick to have similar cameras to modern phones, even mid-rangers, instead of the 3-4ish mm that you see on pretty much any laptop
Probably has to do with how laptops have thinner and thinner bezels and they just ran some cables through those flr the camera vs phones where the camera has a huge space to have bigger sensors and whatnot.
Companies make so much money off the data from every person in the world walking around with a cellphone, I think the only reason they charge any money at all is to not raise suspicion lol.
My 1400 dollar laptop has a very nice camera. It can shoot in 1440p . And a phone’s main selling point is it’s camera. It’s not for a laptop
– Video conferencing tops out at low resolution so there isn’t as much motivation to up their quality
– The thickness on a monitor is meaningfully thinner when it comes to fitting higher quality cameras compared to phones.
Not an issue if you buy a Mac.
How about camera quality on $200 webcam vs $200 phone. Explain that one to me.