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| Mark Schroeder (earth2mark-eeepc) wrote Re: Regression: skype webcam (Chicony CNF7129) image very dark on Asus 1000HE on Karmic (9.10) UNR | #1 |
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Additional observation -- I've now found that skype images are not *always* darker.
Here in a coffee shop with a really bright spotlight pointed straight at my face,
the cheese and skype webcam images are both well lit.
If I move to the table right next to me (still well lit, but no spotlight pointed right at me),
the skype images are "under-exposed" by what I would guess to be 2-3 stops photographically
(very dark), but the cheese images are similar (well lit) whether in or not in the spotlight.
In my lighting at home, the difference is more like 4 stops (silhouette).
This looks very much like an "auto exposure" setting that cheese is able to set and
skype is unable to set for some reason on Karmic. And both cheese and skype are
able to set it (or whatever setting it is) on Jaunty, since images are well lit using both programs
on Jaunty.
Images (cheese photos / skype screenshots) are available if seeing them would help.
Let me know how I can help debug this issue further.