{"id":10054,"date":"2013-10-23T14:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2013-10-23T14:30:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:30:22","slug":"surface-2-has-a-decent-camera-unlike-surface-rt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/10054-surface-2-has-a-decent-camera-unlike-surface-rt.html","title":{"rendered":"Surface 2 has a decent camera, unlike Surface RT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who cares about cameras on a tablet? Not many perhaps, though I regularly see iPads held aloft. Microsoft\u2019s Surface RT has two cameras, both 720p (1280 x 720 or about 0.9MP). Surface 2 also has two cameras, the rear 5MP and the front 3.5MP.<\/p>\n<p>I found the Surface RT rear camera so disappointing that I never used it, but the one on Surface 2 is rather good. Here is a quick snap of a similar scene taken with each device.<\/p>\n<p>Surface RT:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image25.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image_thumb25.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"229\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surface 2:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image26.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image_thumb26.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"229\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>or zooming in for some detail<\/p>\n<p>Surface RT:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image27.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image_thumb27.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"254\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surface 2:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image28.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image_thumb28.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"266\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who cares about cameras on a tablet? Not many perhaps, though I regularly see iPads held aloft. Microsoft\u2019s Surface RT has two cameras, both 720p (1280 x 720 or about 0.9MP). Surface 2 also has two cameras, the rear 5MP and the front 3.5MP. I found the Surface RT rear camera so disappointing that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/10054-surface-2-has-a-decent-camera-unlike-surface-rt.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Surface 2 has a decent camera, unlike Surface RT<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1200,881],"class_list":["post-10054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tablets","tag-camera","tag-surface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}