iPad camera comparison

These are pictures of the iPad 2 camera (front and back) verses the new iPad camera (front and back).

First of all, the iPad 2 and new iPad have the same VGA camera in the front. I really wish Apple would improve on this. In their minds, people only want to use the front camera for FaceTime; this is however very wrong. People want to be back to take pictures of themselves with friends, and obviously having a front facing camera is easier than a back camera for this.  It's not always easy to line-up the perfect shot when you can't see the screen, i.e., using the back camera.




The specs differ with the back camera. As you can see, the iPad 2 has a mere 0.7MP camera. That's less than 1MP ad the main reason why the camera on the iPad 2 sucks so much. The new iPad has a 5MP camera for clearer quality pictures. However, an LED flash would have helped improve visual quality in dark or dimly-lit rooms.




So there you have it, the difference between the camera on the iPad 2 and the new iPad. I used iPhoto on my iPad to get these information screen shots. The location date is edited out for obvious reasons, everything else remains unchanged.