I’ve had times where I need to take a photo of a piece of paper to turn in online for school. You can’t read the text if you hold it up to the camera, atleast on my modern laptop.
Also just because it was literally like ~850 bucks (iirc), it should be able to take a decent photo for that insane of a price.
You’d probably be better off using your phone for taking photos of papers. Better camera, better angle/lighting, generally better editing options (with default photo apps, imo Photoshop is overkill for taking a picture of a document, generally I only adjust brightness and contrast). The only downside is needing to get the photo to the laptop, but there’s about a million ways to do that depending on your setup.
The built-in cameras use cases are video conferences, so they use the “afterthought” cameras (cheapest they can). I understand your use case, and I agree that the camera quality is shite, never mind the MP count. My 2005 phone shouldn’t have had a camera better than my 2024 laptop. Period.
I’ve had times where I need to take a photo of a piece of paper to turn in online for school. You can’t read the text if you hold it up to the camera, atleast on my modern laptop.
Also just because it was literally like ~850 bucks (iirc), it should be able to take a decent photo for that insane of a price.
You’d probably be better off using your phone for taking photos of papers. Better camera, better angle/lighting, generally better editing options (with default photo apps, imo Photoshop is overkill for taking a picture of a document, generally I only adjust brightness and contrast). The only downside is needing to get the photo to the laptop, but there’s about a million ways to do that depending on your setup.
The built-in cameras use cases are video conferences, so they use the “afterthought” cameras (cheapest they can). I understand your use case, and I agree that the camera quality is shite, never mind the MP count. My 2005 phone shouldn’t have had a camera better than my 2024 laptop. Period.