A recent update seems to have solved the issue on the iMac, but no such luck for the Studio Display. My podcasting partner Myke Hurley, who lives in the U.K., has been frustrated for the past year that the M1 iMac and Studio Display don’t properly deal with the flicker rate of fluorescent lights in Europe.
With Webcam Settings, I was able to improve the contrast, reduce color saturation, and generally make my image look the way I wanted–or I could flip back into Automatic mode and just let the camera make the decisions.
Apple should provide the users of any Mac with a webcam with tools to make their images look better. IGlasses used to be a capable app for making webcam adjustments, but now it doesn’t even work with FaceTime, QuickTime Player, Photo Booth, or Skype. Apple even lets you adjust the settings on a per-app basis, in case you want to use Portrait Mode on FaceTime but not on Zoom. You actually can control a few features of the camera on the Studio Display, as well as other Apple devices! It’s a new addition to Control Center, where you can turn Center Stage and Portrait Mode on or off. It’s a very dark gray box, but not entirely black. I could accuse Apple of making its webcam a black box, impervious to any interaction or understanding, but that’s not fair. How about the audacity of Apple shipping it without any interface to speak of? And how much better might the camera on the Studio Display have been received if it could be tweaked by its users to produce more pleasing images? A dark-gray box We can debate the wisdom of putting Center Stage on a display most likely destined for the desks of nerds, but let’s leave that aside. The Apple Studio Display, with its perplexing and controversial webcam, dredges up a lot of those feelings of frustration.
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