we're here at Logitech to check out the c922 webcam it is a direct replacement
for the legendary C920 webcam which is used by a huge amount of streamers
including myself the c922 features two
main new modes 60fps at 720p and
background replacement let's see how it fares against its tried and trusted
older
brother the be quiet! dark Bass Pro 900
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with the most drastic feature change they now have background replacement
they've opted not to use Intel real sense we've seen that applied in a few
different background replacement cameras in the past instead of using a depth
sensing camera they went with a strictly software solution which is mainly
focused on shape recognition and comparing contrast levels now when I
first caught wind of this I thought it was going to be terrible and it wasn't
at all it was actually rather awesome especially for an amateur streamer or
something like that it's not going to replace an actual green screen or blue
screen or something like that but it does a really good job with what it has
which is actually very impressive especially when we put it in Crazy
scenarios like pointing it towards a window that was partially open and a
super variabl back wall something that it shouldn't do very good with to test
out how well it worked Ed and I ran it through a number of scenarios including
a few different torture tests where where we expected it to really start
failing was mainly when we reduced the light in the room and to be fair it did
get worse but it was impressive that it actually functioned at all we even did
some testing where we rapidly moved the camera around changing the angle of
attack that the camera had on the person that it was trying to record this would
be problematic for a camera that is trying to base its background
replacement based off the shape of your body and we tried it against a few
different backgrounds even rapidly changing the backgrounds again there
were some problems here but it was rather impressive that it functioned at
all because this was a pretty intense scenario for this type of background
replacement now again because it's basing itself off of shape recognition
and contrast helping it out by giving it a second to really recognize what's
going on in the scene having a basic solid background and having ample
lighting can really help it out if you want to step up the experience now if
you do want to put something like a foldable green screen or something
behind you even if you don't have the throw distance and lighting that you
would normally expect from a green screen experience you can get a lot out
of it by using that in combination with the background replacement software and
a chroma key through whatever streaming software you're using I'll also point
out that it had an easier time tracking myself than edzel but I would expect
that is probably due to the reflective properties of his glasses than anything
else now moving on to 60fps this was enough to sell me on the camera entirely
by itself before I even heard about the background replacement stuff it streams
at 60fps 720p just like a huge huge
amount of twitch streamers because of the max bit rate cap that twitch has
it's kind of the best way to stream right now so having your webcam being
able to stream at that same frame rate that same frame rate that pcmr likes is
very very cool and I must note that checking the settings is rather
important as the fact of it running at 60fps is a little bit Dynamic for
instance if you enable low light compensation it's not going to work it
has to slow down the frame rate so it can get more light per frame dropping
you down to about 15 FPS not 60 and
enabling other things can drop it down to 30 even so just make sure that it's
actually functioning at 60 if that's what your goal is with all the settings
between the c922 and the C920 set at the
same thing I did personally find the c922 to be considerably better
especially when looking at my hair you could really see the older C920 struggle
with loads of artifacting lines while the newer c922 handled it much better
managing to look a lot less like the footage I would expect to come from a
traditional webcam and again I have some additional notes here I would highly
recommend diving into the manual settings edzel brought this up and I
definitely agree the sharpness seems to be too low by default they could change
this later on but just so you know and depending on your setup you might want
to have different exposure contrast brightness etc etc dive into the manual
settings you can get a lot more out of the camera that way if you opt to get
the non-x version you can get an included little mini tripod if you want
to not mount it on top of your monitor like I expect most of you to do and I
would also note that I believe the mic in here is the same as the original C920
meaning it's pretty bad and I would highly recommend that you buy an
external mic if you're shopping for this thing look at it for its awesome visual
qualities not the included microphone although included with it comes I
believe a few months of xplit premium Now last but not least for you security
fans out there the form factor is essentially identical meaning that it
works with the old C920 privacy cover and considering that FBI
director James Comey has recently recommended covering your webcam that
might be not a bad idea to pick up or continue using if you already own it
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what you guys think are you considering upgrading to this over your current C920
or if you're shopping for a webcam is it just better that this is supposedly the
same price and better in basically every area and has more features or do you
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