Ideapad U530 camera has terrible image quality

I purchased an IdeaPad U530 touch a few weeks ago and have found the webcam image is terrible. I am not talking a little dark or a little grainy, I am talking absolutely terrible. Very blotchy. It almost looks like it is below 640x480, way below. Lighting doesn't help. The computer has Windows 8.1 and there are no settings that I can find anywhere to make any adjustments to the camera image. They took out the advanced settings in W8.1 camera so I am stuck. Are there any settings that I can do to fix this? As it is, the camera is unusable because the image is so bad. I have looked online high and low to find a solution and I can't find any way to fix it other than buying a USB camera and ignoring the webcam that I paid for when I bought the computer.

I also have a U530 touch with windows 8.1 and the camera is very grainy running the standard camera app. I've tried uninstalling, reinstalling the camera driver but no change. I did notice however that the smaller cam preview in skype seems fine and sharp.
Pictures taken with the camera app in windows is grainy but the picture size is 1280x720. So it is taking pictures as the proper resolution but the quality is unacceptable.

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