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Blurry Acer Camera

  • 23-06-2013 5:21pm
    #1
    Schwiiing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭


    Bought an Acer Aspire E1-571 laptop today. The specs say crystal eye HD webcam but its far from HD. I can barely make out my own face 2 feet from the camera. Has anyone had any similar problems. Is it a driver or a hardware problem possibly?


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  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Schwiiing wrote: »
    Bought an Acer Aspire E1-571 laptop today. The specs say crystal eye HD webcam but its far from HD. I can barely make out my own face 2 feet from the camera. Has anyone had any similar problems. Is it a driver or a hardware problem possibly?
    Have you tried taking the packaging film of the lens of the camera yet??


    :)


  • #3
    Schwiiing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭Schwiiing


    Overheal wrote: »
    Have you tried taking the packaging film of the lens of the camera yet??


    :)

    got any useful advice?


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Schwiiing wrote: »
    got any useful advice?

    He's not joking. There is usually a piece of clear film over the lens to stop the plastic from being scratched in transit. If this isn't removed it makes the camera blurry.


  • #5
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    Karsini wrote: »
    He's not joking. There is usually a piece of clear film over the lens to stop the plastic from being scratched in transit. If this isn't removed it makes the camera blurry.

    True story...


  • #6
    Schwiiing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭Schwiiing


    Karsini wrote: »
    He's not joking. There is usually a piece of clear film over the lens to stop the plastic from being scratched in transit. If this isn't removed it makes the camera blurry.

    there was plastic around the screen which I removed when I took it out of the box.


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  • #7
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    There is generally a tiny bit on the lens itself, hard to spot, drag a finger nail across it to see.


  • #8
    Schwiiing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭Schwiiing


    Doom wrote: »
    There is generally a tiny bit on the lens itself, hard to spot, drag a finger nail across it to see.

    I'm not a ****ing idiot. There is no plastic on the lens.


  • #9
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    Schwiiing wrote: »
    I'm not a ****ing idiot. There is no plastic on the lens.

    You are for that reply....


  • #10
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Using the baked in camera app in Windows 8?

    I'll help you further if you would please apologize for snapping at Doom


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