My machine camera quality not well
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What was the question here?
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On my X1C, I turned off the Lamp to save a few watts when I’m not printing. Also, it seems like the camera’s auto white-balancing is held constant for the whole time a print is going, which makes for a great timelapse.
However, there seems to be a bug that the AWB is set before the Lamp is turned on at the start of the print. So almost the whole timelapse video looks too bright and washed out, except for the first and last frame.
That might be the same problem here. The solution is to have the Lamp on before starting the print. I only have tried turning it on before preheating, and not anything after that.
I’m scratching my head on that one. It’s an LED lamp that doesn’t draw more than 1 watt of power. This isn’t going to save the rain forest but as you learned it can make for a dim video, so you have a choice to make. 
There’s no bug. That isn’t a feature present in the machine.
It sounds like you’re expecting this to operate like a $300 webcam. Let me disabuse you of that notion: Bambu put in minimal effort into the video quality of the X1 series. Consider yourself lucky to have video at all. The images you’ve shown are completely normal.
If you find the lighting inadequate, there are a number of alternate lighting solutions on Printables that make a huge difference.
Here’s one that is very inexpensive and ties into the existing lighting system and it’s held in my magnets so it’s easy to install, no glue required. But be warned, this is a 1.5 watt bulb, we wouldn’t want to blow a breaker now, would we? 
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The bug is that the AWB should not be held constant until after the Lamp is turned on for the timelapse, and it’s an easy software fix.
I’m fine with the lighting as is.
OK. Well you posted this in the support section so it seemed like you were asking the community for a solution. My response was intended to provide insight that your experience is how the product has been designed for better or worse.
By no means am I a defender of Bambu—my posts here testify to that. However, it should be noted that this issue hardly fits the definition of a bug. A pet peeve, maybe, but a bug? Certainly not. By definition, a bug is a flaw or a function that is not operating as intended. In Bambu’s world, this is the embodiment of the Chinese business philosophy of Chabuduo—it is working as intended, no more, no less.
But if you feel strongly about it, then there is a section for bug reporting. You’ll want to tag it as Bug-report if you want it to get seen.
Here’s the link to that section.
However, there’s a long line of issues ahead of you that have serious impacts on printing reliability, which Bambu has not addressed in over two years. Networking, for example, is just one of them, with many bug reports indicating that it does not function as specified and, in some cases, has prevented users from printing over Wi-Fi entirely. Bambu hasn’t addressed those issues either. It’s apparent that Bambu does not read these forums very diligently if at all.
Yeah. I think I mentioned this in a thread many, many months ago. The camera exposure appears to be set once at power on. If the lighting conditions change significantly some time after power up, the video will either be overexposed/washed out or underexposed/dark.
If white balance doesn’t change (which I don’t think I’ve ever seen it do), that means AWB is off. I don’t have a problem with that, though. It should be off…
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