I'm actually pretty excited about the HD Facetime camera. Anyone guess how many MP?

[Bobby Corwen]

I hate going on facebook to record a video greeting and it gets all blurry. I am glad for this, its been long overdue honestly now that I think about it.

Anyone know how many megapixels it might be?

Im thinking between 2-5?

 

[LoganT]

Isn't 1 megapixel 1080p?

 

[Sarngate]

Isn't 1 megapixel 1080p?

No, it's just over 2 megapixels so i imagine the camera will be 3.2 megapixels minimum.

 

[Bobby Corwen]

Isn't 1 megapixel 1080p?

*backs away slowly in confusion...

*runs

 

[OllyW]

The iPod touch records HD with only 0.69 megapixels.

 

[LoganT]

*backs away slowly in confusion...

*runs

I can see it being 720p which is 1280x720, and focusing more on bitrate.

 

[talmy]

The "FaceTime" cameras so far (iPhone/iTouch/MacBookAir) have been inferior to the "iSight" cameras, so maybe a "HD FaceTime" camera is just a renamed "iSight" camera and no change from the current MacBook Pro?

 

[aiqw9182]

Current iSight cameras actually have the ability to record in 1280x1024 (1.3MP) but it looks like trash when you view it at anything larger than 640x480.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Isn't 1 megapixel 1080p?

1 MegaPixel (MP) are 1 million (1.000.000) pixel, for example:

Horizontal width: 1000 pixel
Vertical height: 1000 pixel
Therefore such 1000 x 1000 pixel image would be 1 MP.

But as 1080p is short for the HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixel, 1080p is actually 2MP (2.073.600 pixel), 720p (1280 x 720 pixel) is 0.9MP (921.600 pixel).

Also note that a photo camera with 15MP and an aspect ratio of 3:2 has 5000 horizontal pixels and 3000 vertical pixel. Approximately.

 

[Bobby Corwen]

I would like to be able to have full screen HD video conferencing on the whole large 15" screen in perfect detail with great frame-rates with my Fortune 500 status Japanese business partners who are all wearing suits...

 

[Hellhammer]

I would like to be able to have full screen HD video conferencing on the whole large 15" screen in perfect detail with great frame-rates with my Fortune 500 status Japanese business partners who are all wearing suits...

720p should be fine for that. Pixels aren't everything, a good quality 720p camera is way better than crappy 1080p one.

 

[vincenz]

Honestly, it sounds like they just changed "iSight" to "HD Facetime Camera."

 

[Bobby Corwen]

Honestly, it sounds like they just changed "iSight" to "HD Facetime Camera."

What makes is seem like that?

I hope not...

I doubt it..

Its long overdue...

0.3??