{"id":980,"date":"2014-08-02T09:03:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T13:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2014-08-02T09:03:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T13:03:17","slug":"surface-pro-3-rear-camera-driver-is-dated-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/02\/surface-pro-3-rear-camera-driver-is-dated-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface Pro 3 Rear Camera Driver is dated 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m one of the people who is unhappy with the ability to use my Surface Pro 3 to take a usable, in focus, photo of a document, due to Microsoft\u2019s decision to change from a great working variable focus camera in prior models to a dumbed down fixed focus camera. There\u2019s a thread on Microsoft Communities about this, <a title=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface\/forum\/surfpro3-surfhardware\/surface-pro-3-camera-quality\/52a2b69b-aa2e-49bb-8287-55dd37f60c6a\" href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface\/forum\/surfpro3-surfhardware\/surface-pro-3-camera-quality\/52a2b69b-aa2e-49bb-8287-55dd37f60c6a\">http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface\/forum\/surfpro3-surfhardware\/surface-pro-3-camera-quality\/52a2b69b-aa2e-49bb-8287-55dd37f60c6a<\/a> with no real answers from official Microsoft support personnel. <\/p>\n<p>I was looking around in device manager today to see what drivers the cameras were using and when they were issue and nearly went into shock. While the front camera has a driver from 2014, the rear camera, on my Surface Pro 3, is reporting a driver from 2006. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2006\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2006\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2006.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, it may be that the default driver date for ALL Windows drivers is 2006 (Vista era), but the front camera shows 2014. This is just sloppy. I took alook at the details for this driver and there were two. The ksthunk.sys driver reports a driver from a year ago, 8\/22\/2013.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"thunk\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"thunk\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/thunk.png\" width=\"550\" height=\"797\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I wish someone from Microsoft would comment on the poor decision to use the fixed focus camera and respond to unhappy customers in the Communities forum. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; I\u2019m one of the people who is unhappy with the ability to use my Surface Pro 3 to take a usable, in focus, photo of a document, due to Microsoft\u2019s decision to change from a great working variable focus camera in prior models to a dumbed down fixed focus camera. There\u2019s a thread on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[140],"tags":[228,234],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>&#160; I\u2019m one of the people who is unhappy with the ability to use my Surface Pro 3 to take a usable, in focus, photo of a document, due to Microsoft\u2019s decision to change from a great working variable focus camera in prior models to a dumbed down fixed focus camera. 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