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Anyone with an iPhone + Mac, just get a MagSafe iphone webcam mount https://www.belkin.com/iphone-mount-with-magsafe-for-mac-not... Your iPhone is crazy powerful with a beautiful picture- if you want to look great during meetings, use it. No wires- just works
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That's ridiculous. 48MP should be capable of at least 4K video. Are their yields still not high enough at 4K even if they're charging an order of magnitude more than what the components actually cost?
They don’t have any yields. This is an off the shelf Sony sensor and they chose the cheaper binned part. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exmor
Ah, so they only care about money. Perfect.
Also hilarious that they say it's "binned" to 1080p when they're actually only getting the rejects that weren't good enough for 4K! Way to be technically correct, Opal.
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Same here, as if an unsolicited SMS with attachments will be effective. I also unsubscribed a while back after reading about issues similar to what's mentioned in other comments here.
They are. Our marketing campaigns are most successful via SMS because consumers haven't yet filtered out sms as potential spam yet and actually read and click. If
I literally get no personal messages via SMS anymore and I haven't for years.
Hard pass for me; I was excited when I saw what appeared to be a large lens and sensor but I don't think that quality translates to the footage.
This is not a "mirrorless camera sensor", at least how it's meant to be interpreted. While technically mirrorless like all webcams, the sensor is under a quarter of the area of the smallest Sony mirrorless intechangeable-lens cameras.
What is the market for this product? I can't see their being enough people who a. have a laptop without a camera/need a better camera b. are willing to lug this thing around and c. are willing to pay $200. How is web design this bad acceptable? It's insanely slow, annoying to read and impossible to navigate.
Low-budget streamers or those who end up effectively 'streaming' their web conferences. People who are using Blue Yeti mics and Elgato keylights or (a directly competing product) Elgato Facecam: https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/facecam which is using a 1/1.8" sensor (8.8mm diagonal) at f/2.4 aperture, and this has a 1/1.2” sensor (13.33 mm diagonal) at f/1.2. In this age of remote work, there are a lot of people who re…
We have some high end 1in cameras with glass zoom lenses and they look about as good even with dedicated encoding hardware.
I use the Camo software that turns my phone into a webcam and the quality is astounding but it still suffers from the "appear to be looking elsewhere" issue. I have sketched out a design for a bracket that dangles your phone upside down, in front of the screen and turns the phone front camera into a webcam that's much closer to where you are typically looking. The interesting bit is that software on the phone display…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B722VBX1/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B5S7X6BN/
But, seconding PlexiCam.
The L clamps' cutout works with most any screw-in tripod mount.
If you get the PlexiCam Road Warrior Mini, you get two clamps and a miniature battery pack fill light:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C164VQ43/
I find these work well with Logi Brio 4K + Xsplit Vcam, or, with Lumina which has all the autoframing and soft bokeh you could want (far better than what's built into most web conf platforms):
https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/webcams/brio-4k-hdr-...
The other new thing to solve eye contact is Elgato's miniature teleprompter:
to look pro, you want maybe 35 degree field of view, equivalent to 70mm or more
see: https://s.studiobinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Focal-...
there's a reason studio newscasters have flat faces, while the people they interview via webex or zoom look like giant nosed clowns, it's the focal length
if you can't get a narrow field of view, you can pretend you have a "crop sensor" by getting a true 4K, cropping it down to 1080p since web conf software aren't sending more than that anyway, and positioning yourself farther from it.
this farther position also helps your eyes seem to be looking more directly at the lens.
I use the Camo software that turns my phone into a webcam and the quality is astounding but it still suffers from the "appear to be looking elsewhere" issue. I have sketched out a design for a bracket that dangles your phone upside down, in front of the screen and turns the phone front camera into a webcam that's much closer to where you are typically looking. The interesting bit is that software on the phone display…
I have Camo and used to use it that way. And latest MacOS has it more or less "built in" (mostly less, but it's there). I like a couple different magsafe "Continuity Cam" mounts for the last couple versions of iPhone + iOS: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B722VBX1/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B5S7X6BN/ But, seconding PlexiCam. The L clamps' cutout works with most any screw-in tripod mount. If you get the…
