Microsoft LifeCam 3000

If you take a quick look at the Camera app, you will notice the little gear icon in the top left corner; that's for Settings.

I suggest maximizing your Camera app then clicking the Settings icon - otherwise, it simply doesn't show up.

At the top of the bar on the left you should see "Pro mode."  Make sure that is "On" and then go back to the full Camera screen.

On the left side of your screen, below the timer, you will now see a small icon.  That is now the Brightness and you can adjust it.

You are absolutely correct that there should be a full control panel to adjust brightness, contrast, etc. but there just isn't.

Best of luck.

If you take a quick look at the Camera app, you will notice the little gear icon in the top left corner; that's for Settings.

I suggest maximizing your Camera app then clicking the Settings icon - otherwise, it simply doesn't show up.

At the top of the bar on the left you should see "Pro mode."  Make sure that is "On" and then go back to the full Camera screen.

On the left side of your screen, below the timer, you will now see a small icon.  That is now the Brightness and you can adjust it.

You are absolutely correct that there should be a full control panel to adjust brightness, contrast, etc. but there just isn't.

Best of luck.

The problem, RichardManningham, is that with the HD3000 there is no "camera app" that Microsoft provides.  Unless there's settings in the specific app using the camera, you're SOL.  In this case, Teams doesn't provide any advanced Camera settings other than cheezy backgrounds. 

Honestly... Dear Microsoft,

You've broken Skype.  The clean, simple UI was beautiful and easy to use.  Teams is a cluster F of options and buttons.  No one gets it except the developers.  The advanced camera functions we're all looking for were lost for no good reason.  Please consider putting back these features and cleaning up the Team's UI.  Your attempt to continue SharePoint's adoption is commendable, but you are sacrificing Teams (and Skype) for this endeavor and it's not your best move.

It does not work for MS Teams.  All other MS apps can be adjusted but Teams will not allow those settings.  MS Teams only reverts to DARK.  Unusable in a professional setting.  I think I need to send the camera back and get an off-brand.  I bought the MS camera thinking it would integrate well with MS Teams.  It definitely does not.

Hello

I am Sidney, an independent advisor, and also a user just like you.

You are... entirely right. I also experience this myself and I spent hours trying to find a solution.

This is not normal that such a critical feature is missing, but we believe it will change thanks to some update because more and more users are complaining.

There are two solutions right now, either use a software that is able to change the brightness settings (skype), or as you use Team for business reasons, please se a Camera Proxy which will retrieve the image of your Camera, and create a parallel virtual camera, with the effects you want.

Of course you will set more brightness. I use OBS, which is opensource, and provide you what is necessary to do that. However this is a bit hard to set up.

I hope this will help you

Sidney

CoreyKaye - He's referring to the Windows 10 native camera app. It does exactly what he is describing.