Cheap and simple way to mount a smartphone directly above a laptop display

Re:Cheap and simple way to mount a smartphone directly above... by spijdar on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:19AM (#25758505)

While I'm not sure I'd call it "bad", the webcams on even the 2019 MBPs (last I've personally tried) were kind of overwhelmingly mediocre. The front and rear cameras on basically all the android phones I've used in 6 years are all much, much clearer than the mac's built in webcam.

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Re:Cheap and simple way to mount a smartphone directly above... by PurpleFoxy on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:50AM (#25758689)

I was kinda shocked to see how poor the MacBook camera was considering how good the front facing camera is on the iPhone. Then I realised that on the MacBook it only ever gets used for video calls which will get compressed to 200x150px while the iPhone front facing camera is mostly for selfies

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Re:Cheap and simple way to mount a smartphone directly above... by johnwalkr on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:40AM (#25758969)

The M1 macs apparently use the same or similar camera used since 2011, albeit with better image processing, which is kind of disappointing.

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Re:Cheap and simple way to mount a smartphone directly above... by saagarjha on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:50AM (#25759023)

MacBook lids are really thin.

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