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now looky here if i was to design a webcam for streaming

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this would be pretty much exactly

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spec for spec what i would do at least on paper at least we're gonna have to

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see how the experience compares it's the elgato face cam uh this is a

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very exciting product elgato makes very solid products people always complain they're a little

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overpriced but really like their lights are comparable to more professional

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lights with good color uh their mics pretty good their sound

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panels again and when that was so overpriced but it's like when you

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actually look at what they're doing they're accomplishing three different sound treatment things

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and so i'm guessing it's the same with this it's a 200 webcam that's not too

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expensive but that's kind of on the high end of webcams especially a 1080p webcam

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but that's okay i prefer my webcam to be 1080p

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anyway reason for that it's a tiny sensor so if you try and fit uh that 8

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million pixel count which is what 4k is those

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are tiny ass pixels and uh the bigger your pixel the

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better it's probably gonna be especially for low light and when you stream you're

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often in low light and so in my opinion for streaming 1080p is better it's going

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on twitch it can only be 1080p anyway usually your little window so small anyway for video

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conferencing 1080p is plenty uh and the compression's insane so uh

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let's see what's in the box we got this box inside a box we got some

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cables it's a long usb 8 to type c

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i actually tried out this webcam yesterday it seemed to only work with

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this cable i tried other usbc cables because i was having issues

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would only register with this one so that's an interesting thing we're going to have to

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play around with a little bit more so the last thing in the box

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is instruction manual maybe i do need this because i was having trouble with

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it yesterday it's nice it comes with well we'll get

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to that a little instruction guides quick start it's pretty easy though plug it in

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use the app you want to use it's not one of those cameras you can use in two apps

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at once which is normal although that would be nice especially for streaming devices i want

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cameras and capture cards that can be able to be read in two apps at once

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that's a big selling feature for me the amount of times you need to record or

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in a different app than you're streaming that's big that's big elgato you should

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know you should know ava media provides it

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all right now to the prime time baby

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a little baggy to protect it um

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here's the camera the it comes with the privacy cover i seem to have left it at

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home uh it just goes on top it's uh plastic browned like a lens cap

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but it's uh it's nice so you don't have to worry about it turning on and watching it without you

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knowing especially with that uh big russian farm of hackers that just

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display webcams and security cams on their websites 24 7 that you can just go watch

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it's pretty scary as you can see it's actually a little bit bigger than you i

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would expect most webcams to be it's got more depth and that's a good sign so this is the

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anchor one fairly similar sex sex yep specs it does

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1080p 60 as well it can also do lower resolutions uh

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lower frame rates 1080p 30 might be better for you especially if it's a low

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light situation but on twitch usually it's 60.

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as you can see this camera is just deeper

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than what a typical webcam looks like that's a good thing we're going to talk

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a little bit about more why it's so deep later but in terms of

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the rest of the body it's pretty standard it's got a monitor mount which is fine but it also has a quarter

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20 screw which is really nice so you could actually put it into a tripod or

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into a different many many many camera accessories so

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depending on your situation this is actually awesome you could put a like a

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quick release plate and snap it into a tripod this is that's a great thing i find it very

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frustrating when you're trying to use a webcam in certain situations so

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that's a big plus it's padded so you don't have to worry about scratching

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your monitor which is very good so the big

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selling features of this lens are that it's pared down some of the features

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that are kind of unnecessary on a webcam so most

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webcams have a little mic if you're using it primarily for video

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conferencing that's nice to have especially if the computer you're using doesn't have a mic

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but for a few reasons the mic on a webcam generally sucks

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not only is it like a tiny little mic sometimes there's like a dual array

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but it's so far away from the speaker that the sound quality is never gonna be

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good and so what they've done to cut costs is just forego the mic and for streamers i

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think that makes a lot of sense one of the first things you should buy as a streamer is

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a decent mic because your audio is very important

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it's a lot easier to connect with someone if their mics are good and so i

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think that's a smart choice that's a smart compromise to make in terms of what's actually in here

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it's the same sensor that's in the dell ultra sharp

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webcam that we unboxed or alex unboxed a couple weeks ago

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so it's a good sony sensor they advertise a bigger size

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than it is at least the the dell one did and so it should be good in low light

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sony's i mean at the top of the sensor game these days so that's great but what

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i think is great is that it's a uh 24 millimeter

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equivalent f 2.4 lens which is pretty ideal for streaming if i

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was to buy a prime lens for a camera i would buy like a 24 or 28

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lens and have it a bit further away from myself i've streamed with a 20

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millimeter lens and it's it's been uh it's a little

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bit wide it kind of distorts your face a bit so i think 24 equivalent is kind of the sweet spot so

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i'm excited to see how this looks uh and how this performs

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the description below so i'm very excited to use this

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thing i actually got rid of my my cine camera that i was using for streaming i've been

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kind of looking for a cheap alternative for a while and so i'm excited to see if this can do

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what i wanted to do it's got eight elements in the lens and each element has a double

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layer of reflective coating so there shouldn't be issues with weird glare or

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uh lens flaring which i think is really good especially in a studio environment

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where there's bright lights in every weird direction we've had webcams where

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there's just unusable lens flare and it kind of just sucks

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and so let's see what it looks like my impressions right off the bat it's that

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it's having a little bit of trouble with the white balance it's not i'm not

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really giving it a fair shot just because it's facing a blue wall

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so let's give it a bit more of a neutral background and see if that does

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a little bit better it's still really contrasty it's really

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red and that's actually what i noticed yesterday is that it the skin tones are kind of a little bit off

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and over warm so let's see if i can change it a little bit so i think i'd

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want like a slightly cooler tone so it's nice you can be able to do this there's the

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elgato camera hub software where you can actually do more fine-tuning but

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as of the time of the shooting this video it's not out so i'd be very

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excited to see exactly what kind of fine controls because i think i could fix

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the color issues a little bit more and make it look pretty good because the

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overall look is very good it's very clear it looks like a webcam but

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sharper and a little cleaner just kidding we have the software now through

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a communication breakdown with he who shall not be fired

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uh we have we have

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found it we we got it i'm excited about that because this

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could be i think what is the biggest selling feature of this camera is the

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ability to uh control all the settings and get the

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image exactly how you want it auto can be okay um but generally

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it struggles especially if you want like something specific if you want your background to be very dark and you to be

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kind of more poppy in the front it can struggle to be okay which

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exposure am i going for and you want to be able to just set it

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back no set for my skin and then the background is supposed to be black and so why don't we just go through the

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settings and see how it is i've defaulted everything to the

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automatic the first thing is just you got your input it's great

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you can actually save your settings right to the camera so at the end of this i'm just going to hit the save

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button and it's going to save right into this camera and then you can move it between devices and it'll keep

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the settings that being said if you're moving it between devices you're probably changing it

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like to different lighting setups anyway and so you'll probably want to have the

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elgato software on there anyway it's useful though

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the first one is the zoom which is very fun to play with

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that's my mouth it's a digital zoom so i wouldn't recommend doing this

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yeah i would generally just leave it so you're getting the full amount of the sensor and the full lens

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it's gonna be the best image that being said that maybe there's a use case where you really need it zoomed in

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that's fine you do you you do you in terms of picture there's the contrast

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saturation and sharpness generally i think that webcams are a little too contrasty i kind of prefer

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more flat look i think it's this is probably a little bit too flat zero percent so i'm gonna

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go somewhere 20 i think that looks a little bit better it's not too oversaturated i mean like

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that's over saturated oh yeah i like it

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and then we got our sharpness oh yeah you can just see how blurry it gets it looks very almost like a dream

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lens at the bottom end and then at the top end it's definitely

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over sharp i think i prefer it a little softer

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exposure i'm going to take it off automatic i so exposure is something

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that i think is one of the more important settings about a camera but generally a camera

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just kind of takes the whole picture and is like okay we want it to average out to this amount it takes like

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the highs the lows and kind of just figures out something in between

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that's not always great because maybe you do want a lot of bright or a lot of

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dark and if if it's doing that it can just struggle to kind of find

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what you want and generally what it'll do is it'll just change the shutter

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speed uh and so if it's really bright it'll go to a more closed shutter angle

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but then you'll it'll like be really like jittery and

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and kind of gross it'll look like kind of saving private ryan the

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the the beach scenes when it's like you can tell it's it's it's too clear

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but then the opposite if that's too much light it's gonna have to open the shutter and then it's just really smeary

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and crappy and i can actually just show you guys this if you go into high shutter speeds you

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can see like the movements like kind of over clear and it just

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looks really jittery it's not great it's not as bad as like a real if you're

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doing this on a cine camera and then if you go the other way where it's really smear i mean it's

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obviously overexposed as well but that's kind of generally as the shutter speed is how a webcam will

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compensate for exposure that's not what you want you generally

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want to have your shutter speed be your frame rate uh times two like

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dividing one so it's like if you're shooting at 30 uh you want it to be 1 60

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of a second is your shutter speed that's just it most closely approximate how

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film was shot back in the day where the shutter was half half of the frame was

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a close shutter and so that's generally the rule with cine cameras and it's nice

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on this camera you're able to set it so we're shooting at 60 so we're going

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to set our shutter speed at 125 which is the closest to 120

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and that should look pretty good and it does i think that looks that looks good and then you can muck around with your

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iso because it's pretty bright in here uh 164 is fine with 100

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if it was a little dimmer you'd probably have to crank it a little bit and get it to be noisier you can see

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the blues right there

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it's noisy af dog you got your white balance you can turn it off

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i think it's over compensating a little bit like it's going

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too warm and i think there the camera is having a little bit of trouble with

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white balance in terms of like my skin tone it's just like it's moving it all into something kind

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of a little bit unpleasant it's not terrible it's not the worst webcam color

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i've seen but i can i mean that's something that you pay for in really high end cine cameras is

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really nice skin tone that just looks natural and it's very separate from all the

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other colors in a frame this is like my skin tone looks very

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similar to like like something in between that wood and

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that like it's just it's all kind of a color so i'm gonna play around with

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the white balance a little bit i think this is a bit of a bummer you can go from like cold to warm

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temperatures which is great but there's no tint setting and that's when you buy

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especially when you buy cheap lights usually it's like there's too much green

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uh or sometimes there'll be too much magenta and that's actually i think

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almost as necessary control as you're cool to warm

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uh in terms of compensation so it's kind of a bummer that they offer this much

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control but there's no tint but that being said uh having a white balance is nice

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the last option is the noise reduction uh

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it's not a particularly noisy camera i've seen way noisier i'm sure if we

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used pretty much any built-in webcam it would be a lot noisier this is pretty clean

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but you can turn it on generally this noise reduction doesn't look like it's a

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super advanced uh advanced one in the sense that like

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it just looks like a kind of a bit of a smear across the whole thing you can see my

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skin i mean my pores getting old boys getting old people uh

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it just like is softened a little bit same with the noise like the background this

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the wall uh if you look at it this is with noise reduction on

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there uh you can see it's like kind of

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smeary and then i turn noise reduction off and it's like a little bit sharper so it's just it's one

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of those noise reduction filters that just blurs everything a little bit it's fine

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i probably would keep it off just because it's not that noisy anyway and i want a little bit of extra clarity

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without the the digital sharpening and then you got an anti-flicker

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although there's not really any issues in the back but it's nice a nice option to have and

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so i can save it there it is that's pretty easy and honestly the

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having this amount of control uh while maybe it's not as fully

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featured as a cine camera it's good and it's a huge deal

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especially if you want to learn how to manage a camera this is a 200 camera

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that's pretty cheap compared to a mirrorless uh even a point-and-shoot is pretty

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expensive and so for this it gives you a little bit of ability to try some

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settings out it's not it's not going to be like your your your

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end game camera but uh this this control is very

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exciting for a webcam i was hoping for a little bit of a more

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noticeable jump in clarity especially because they advertise that it's a

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422 uncompressed video going to the computer whereas most cameras are

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are compressing the video which adds processing time so there's theoretically

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less lag and it's supposed to be higher quality video it's that's a huge deal

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especially if you're a streamer using a green screen having the extra color information

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allows it to be a cleaner key and so that's a huge deal if that's the

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kind of streaming you want to do in terms of color it's hard this isn't the ideal webcam setup

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i find generally flatter lighting is more giving a webcam a better shot

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because you're kind of seeing the edge of the set as well as like a bunch of different

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lights it's just probably going to struggle a little bit i think again i could probably fix it a

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little bit if i had more manual controls but unfortunately today i cannot but this is

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this is not a bad webcam like i said i took it home yesterday i was having

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crazy connectivity issues and so your your mileage may vary we

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aren't having those issues today but basically uh while i was streaming every

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like 30 seconds every 20 seconds i mean i'll just give the editor a clip he can make

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like a five second super cut of my frustration technical difficulties on

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the first second again oh this one sucks

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for tonight i chose the rhino

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yeah there's not this room isn't that exciting i mean i'll show you guys the view the views the view is pretty cool

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no nothing it's not even showing up anymore

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but this this isn't bad it's totally usable again webcams are in a weird spot

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where they kind of have to cap out at 200 i

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mean 200 isn't cheap it's expensive for a webcam but when you compare it to

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a mirrorless or a cine camera or something else it's a

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it's a it's cheap alternative but if you were to make this more expensive

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you would have to just sell it as a camera i mean once you're into 500

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range you're just buying a point and shoot at that point or you could buy like an a5000 like

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uh or like that series of camera and really do a lot better

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and so what i'm finding is yeah skin tone's a little bit off it's having a

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little bit of trouble the autofocus seems to be pretty good although for f 2.4 i'm finding that the

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bokeh is not particularly attractive the field of view is pretty good it's 82 degree field

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of view which is pretty nice you could actually get in pretty close and the autofocus is

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tracking me pretty good uh the optimized distance is 12 inches to 47 inches which is

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pretty close to where you would be when you're streaming or like video conferencing but

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let's compare it to what's built into this laptop this is what this camera looks like you

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can see the has a lot of trouble with the highlights

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it's a really struggling with my skin tone it's trying to bring up the blacks

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too much and so it's just weird colors weird uh like my face is

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just a yellow red blob it's not very attractive it's very

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grainy it's not very clear would not recommend using this at all

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so yeah overall this is a pretty good option

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i mean in my head every time i look at a new fancy webcam

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i hope that it's going to be like competitive with a much more expensive

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camera and that's kind of an unrealistic expectation but this is

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pretty good the question remains is it worth 200

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of your hard earned dollars maybe i say that the razer keo pro is

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probably a better option out of the box

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however this one with the fine tuning you could kind of get it to a better

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spot i think the uncompressed video if you're someone that wants to use a green screen

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that's a huge deal that's a lot better like a lot

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better trust me and so this is a pretty good option on

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the market it's definitely worth checking out just like it's worth checking out our

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other ShortCircuit videos there's a whole arrangement there's

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beautiful videos for all of you i present you

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a sandwich of videos thank you for watching why don't you like subscribe

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comment if you want this or you don't

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or what webcam you're currently using why not

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bye