1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:05,220 - Oh, today we're going to look at something with a massive Sony sensor. 2 00:00:05,220 --> 00:00:09,260 Well, not that massive, but it still is pretty big for a webcam. 3 00:00:09,260 --> 00:00:14,330 This here is a Dell Ultrasharp Webcam, yeah, that's it, and it looks awesome. 4 00:00:14,330 --> 00:00:17,790 It features a Sony DSLR sensor, 5 00:00:17,790 --> 00:00:22,230 which, even though you know, it's not gonna be like this, 6 00:00:22,230 --> 00:00:25,240 compared to any other webcam I'm pretty sure 7 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:29,110 it's gonna blow it out of the water, so. Looking at the back here it says we have 8 00:00:29,110 --> 00:00:32,410 one over 2.8 inch large sensor, 9 00:00:32,410 --> 00:00:38,020 which is a difficult way to say that. Also .35 of an inch and 9 millimeters. 10 00:00:38,020 --> 00:00:40,693 Much prefer either of those ways to say it. 11 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,390 Magnets in the box, that's fancy. I guess it is a $200 webcam, 12 00:00:45,390 --> 00:00:48,720 so you can expect things to be fancy. It's just like a little tube. 13 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,520 We have a USB-C to type A cable. 14 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:57,270 We also have, looks like a little stand with a 1/4-20 thread on the bottom. 15 00:00:57,270 --> 00:01:01,450 This one here, that you attach to like the top of your monitor, 16 00:01:01,450 --> 00:01:05,470 that's kind of your standard webcam mount. A little quick start guide. 17 00:01:05,470 --> 00:01:08,223 Yup, plug it in, attach it to your monitor, you're good to go. 18 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:14,370 Wow, that is pretty big for a webcam. That's a pretty fine looking piece of glass there. 19 00:01:14,370 --> 00:01:19,740 They do have a multi element design. So on a multi element design, let's kind of look at this. 20 00:01:19,740 --> 00:01:24,680 You can have a problem that when the light hits the sensor, if it doesn't hit it perpendicular, 21 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,730 it looks bad because the colors can change. 22 00:01:27,730 --> 00:01:30,960 So multi element is trying to get all of the light 23 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:35,060 that's going in to hit the sensor as perpendicular as possible. 24 00:01:35,060 --> 00:01:39,820 Here we have a couple of cool other things. So they have a little proximity sensor. 25 00:01:39,820 --> 00:01:42,870 I don't know if you can quite see that in there, it's dark. 26 00:01:42,870 --> 00:01:46,370 And I don't know which one's which, but there's a proximity sensor 27 00:01:46,370 --> 00:01:52,570 and Window's Hello facial recognition. So, in some laptops, like the XPS15, 28 00:01:52,570 --> 00:01:57,570 you have a combination IR and normal camera sensor in there. 29 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:01,420 And that can cause problems where the IR sensor 30 00:02:01,420 --> 00:02:07,430 makes things look purpley and weird colored. So that's why they have basically two webcams in one, 31 00:02:07,430 --> 00:02:11,880 but one of them only does the IR detection. The big selling point on this thing though 32 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:16,360 is the large sensor. So Dell says that it's from a Sony DSLR camera. 33 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,700 So right here we have, you know, a full frame sensor. 34 00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:24,070 This right here, this is a beautiful thing. Yeah, 35mm across. 35 00:02:24,070 --> 00:02:26,143 The one in here would be about 9mm. 36 00:02:27,250 --> 00:02:32,290 And basically, the more bigger, the better. The larger the pixel, the more light that can hit it, 37 00:02:32,290 --> 00:02:37,640 the better your image, the better your low light performance. One thing that is similar between these two 38 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:43,470 is it has back illuminated technology. So basically, in a normal sensor you have, you know, 39 00:02:43,470 --> 00:02:48,140 the light that comes in and there's a metal wiring in front of it that delivers electricity 40 00:02:48,140 --> 00:02:51,760 and stuff to your pixels, and a lot of it to read data and so on. 41 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:57,110 And then your photo diodes are below that. Whereas in this, and this guy here, 42 00:02:57,110 --> 00:03:00,220 you have the photo diodes on top, and the metal wiring below it. 43 00:03:00,220 --> 00:03:04,700 So you don't potentially have your little light rays coming in, bouncing off of that metal wiring, 44 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:09,140 and not giving good picture. Because of that, you also receive more light, 45 00:03:09,140 --> 00:03:12,160 which can increase your low light performance. 46 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:16,377 Oh, the magnet's directional. So it only goes in one way. 47 00:03:16,377 --> 00:03:19,520 And it's pretty strong, too. I like that it is a directional magnet, 48 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:24,570 because it would be pretty easy to accidentally put this on backwards, set it up, 49 00:03:24,570 --> 00:03:28,960 and then you go to turn it on, you're like. I do really like this lens cap though. 50 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:35,570 It's just magnetic. Actually, before we plug this in, let's just get a baseline of what the famously bad webcam 51 00:03:35,570 --> 00:03:41,100 on this XPS15 looks like. A web cam that looks like this on a $2,000 laptop. 52 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:45,940 In fairness, I do understand why they did this. It has to go into a super small space. 53 00:03:45,940 --> 00:03:50,700 You can't put a big sensor in a small bezel, but yeah, it still is a bit annoying. 54 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:55,610 This thing does feel, it does feel really good. I believe all of the outside is aluminum. 55 00:03:55,610 --> 00:03:59,430 It looks premium. Oh, that's cool. Thing just boots right up. 56 00:03:59,430 --> 00:04:03,980 Select a preset that suits your style and how you want to appear on camera. 57 00:04:03,980 --> 00:04:10,320 Default, smooth, yeah beauty filter, vibrant, we'll just go with default and continue. 58 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:15,830 High dynamic range, why wouldn't I want that? Proximity sensor, walk away lock, wake on approach. 59 00:04:15,830 --> 00:04:21,970 Sure. That's quite the set up. This is definitely designed to be used on desktops. 60 00:04:21,970 --> 00:04:25,730 Private Internet Access is a VPN that allows you to access services and websites 61 00:04:25,730 --> 00:04:30,410 as if you were in a different country. It encrypts all of your internet traffic, and uses a safe, protected IP. 62 00:04:30,410 --> 00:04:35,330 Connect up to 10 devices at once, with clients for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and Linux. 63 00:04:35,330 --> 00:04:38,840 Buy a one year plan for $39.95 at the link in the video description. 64 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:43,183 So let's see, we have AI auto framing. So I guess if I move around, does it? 65 00:04:45,930 --> 00:04:48,643 Oh it does. That's kinda cool. 66 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,840 Oh I have like weird distortion over here now. 67 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:56,320 So I guess that it's a wide lens. It's currently on 90 degrees, 68 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,560 and the other ones are digital zooms. So you do definitely want to stay kind of 69 00:05:01,610 --> 00:05:04,663 in the center but it does a pretty good job of following me around. 70 00:05:05,990 --> 00:05:08,313 Hello, camera, can you get me? 71 00:05:09,490 --> 00:05:14,040 So you can change your field of view. It's a fixed lens, so you're just digitally zooming. 72 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,240 But it does do a pretty good job. I am really impressed with how 73 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,810 it's able to manage this scene. So you've kind of got like, that's a light, 74 00:05:21,810 --> 00:05:25,570 that's really bright. You've also got a lot of dark. 75 00:05:25,570 --> 00:05:28,590 This wall back here, all of this is really challenging, 76 00:05:28,590 --> 00:05:32,080 but it's doing a really great job of just exposing for my face 77 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,020 instead of exposing for just random things that it picks up in the background. 78 00:05:36,020 --> 00:05:39,630 That can be a real problem on, well, any camera, 79 00:05:39,630 --> 00:05:42,383 but laptop webcams in particular. The zoom. 80 00:05:44,550 --> 00:05:48,080 It's just a digital zoom. It doesn't look fantastic. 81 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:55,210 This feels kind of weird now. The priority, it says exposure or frame rate. 82 00:05:55,210 --> 00:05:59,550 Why would you have to choose between those? I'm guessing that they're changing the shutter speed 83 00:05:59,550 --> 00:06:03,440 in order to give you more exposure in low light situations. 84 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,450 Can we turn the lights down here? So it just got a lot darker. 85 00:06:06,450 --> 00:06:10,730 Exposure's coming up. This is a really challenging situation for a webcam, 86 00:06:10,730 --> 00:06:13,870 but also one that you'll end up in a lot. So this is kind of the classic, 87 00:06:13,870 --> 00:06:19,650 you're sitting in front of a window, you're really dark and everything else behind you is really light. 88 00:06:19,650 --> 00:06:24,780 It's doing an okay job at this. But in fairness this is a really tough situation, 89 00:06:24,780 --> 00:06:28,073 I don't even know how it looks on that, probably fine. Let's see what happens 90 00:06:28,073 --> 00:06:34,720 if I change it to frame rate priority. So I'm doing this on frame rate priority. 91 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:39,003 And then we go to exposure priority, and huh. 92 00:06:40,990 --> 00:06:44,860 It's kind of hard to tell, but I do think that is making a difference. 93 00:06:44,860 --> 00:06:47,970 It seems way more jello-y. The exposure on this is really good. 94 00:06:47,970 --> 00:06:52,060 Like the way that it automatically just changes. Take a look at this. 95 00:06:52,060 --> 00:06:56,010 So I'm moving the white balance. That's too blue. 96 00:06:56,010 --> 00:07:00,250 This is really hard to do. All right, well auto white balance, leave that on. 97 00:07:00,250 --> 00:07:03,790 That's my conclusion from that. That's at Dell, it would be really nice 98 00:07:03,790 --> 00:07:07,810 if you had numbers in there, pretty please. That would be a great update. 99 00:07:07,810 --> 00:07:11,170 So, sharpness. So I guess on a normal day 100 00:07:11,170 --> 00:07:14,890 you might wanna turn that up a bit so that you look nice and crisp. 101 00:07:14,890 --> 00:07:18,410 But then, if you're having kind of a bad day, you take it over to the left. 102 00:07:18,410 --> 00:07:21,410 So if you have like a pimple, you can't quite see it. (laughs) 103 00:07:21,410 --> 00:07:24,630 This is all pretty standard camera stuff, but it's fun to play with it. 104 00:07:24,630 --> 00:07:30,463 So let's compare these. This is a very practical camera to have as your webcam. 105 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,230 Going to talk into it here. It's a bit heavy. 106 00:07:35,230 --> 00:07:39,980 So bit out of most peoples budgets when it comes to webcams, for sure. 107 00:07:39,980 --> 00:07:43,300 But it can deliver just, I imagine, 108 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:48,850 stunning video quality if I'm able to hold it (laughs) - The resolution was in full HD, 109 00:07:48,850 --> 00:07:52,180 you didn't even use like 4K. - What? 110 00:07:52,180 --> 00:07:57,440 Dang it. I can't believe that. See, this is why you have camera operators. 111 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,780 Frame rate seems way lower now. I am like a jello-y mess. 112 00:08:00,780 --> 00:08:05,140 That must be why they were doing that. They were both set to 30, I believe. 113 00:08:05,140 --> 00:08:08,290 So this right here is 4K, 114 00:08:08,290 --> 00:08:15,010 the best that this camera can give you. Now, looking at it, especially like the sharpness and such, 115 00:08:15,010 --> 00:08:18,320 this seems really good. I am impressed. 116 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,570 We just recorded the whole video in 1080p, damn it. 117 00:08:21,570 --> 00:08:26,637 So yeah, thanks for watching guys (laughs) - [Andy] Hey, you know, the 1080p is good. 118 00:08:26,637 --> 00:08:31,540 You know that the 4K one is even better - Yeah, if the 1080p is good, the 4K's even better. 119 00:08:31,540 --> 00:08:38,670 This is an exceptional webcam. I do have to say. 200 bucks? This seems pretty compelling if you need it. 120 00:08:38,670 --> 00:08:44,330 So anyway, yeah. This is the Dell Ultrasharp webcam, WB7022. 121 00:08:44,330 --> 00:08:47,560 I think it's a wicked little piece of tech. 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