WEBVTT 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:05.220 - Oh, today we're going to look at something with a massive Sony sensor. 00:00:05.220 --> 00:00:09.260 Well, not that massive, but it still is pretty big for a webcam. 00:00:09.260 --> 00:00:14.330 This here is a Dell Ultrasharp Webcam, yeah, that's it, and it looks awesome. 00:00:14.330 --> 00:00:17.790 It features a Sony DSLR sensor, 00:00:17.790 --> 00:00:22.230 which, even though you know, it's not gonna be like this, 00:00:22.230 --> 00:00:25.240 compared to any other webcam I'm pretty sure 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 00:00:29.110 --> 00:00:32.410 one over 2.8 inch large sensor, 00:00:32.410 --> 00:00:38.020 which is a difficult way to say that. Also .35 of an inch and 9 millimeters. 00:00:38.020 --> 00:00:40.693 Much prefer either of those ways to say it. 00:00:41.800 --> 00:00:45.390 Magnets in the box, that's fancy. I guess it is a $200 webcam, 00:00:45.390 --> 00:00:48.720 so you can expect things to be fancy. It's just like a little tube. 00:00:48.720 --> 00:00:52.520 We have a USB-C to type A cable. 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. 00:00:57.270 --> 00:01:01.450 This one here, that you attach to like the top of your monitor, 00:01:01.450 --> 00:01:05.470 that's kind of your standard webcam mount. A little quick start guide. 00:01:05.470 --> 00:01:08.223 Yup, plug it in, attach it to your monitor, you're good to go. 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. 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. 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, 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:27.730 it looks bad because the colors can change. 00:01:27.730 --> 00:01:30.960 So multi element is trying to get all of the light 00:01:30.960 --> 00:01:35.060 that's going in to hit the sensor as perpendicular as possible. 00:01:35.060 --> 00:01:39.820 Here we have a couple of cool other things. So they have a little proximity sensor. 00:01:39.820 --> 00:01:42.870 I don't know if you can quite see that in there, it's dark. 00:01:42.870 --> 00:01:46.370 And I don't know which one's which, but there's a proximity sensor 00:01:46.370 --> 00:01:52.570 and Window's Hello facial recognition. So, in some laptops, like the XPS15, 00:01:52.570 --> 00:01:57.570 you have a combination IR and normal camera sensor in there. 00:01:57.880 --> 00:02:01.420 And that can cause problems where the IR sensor 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, 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 00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:16.360 is the large sensor. So Dell says that it's from a Sony DSLR camera. 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:19.700 So right here we have, you know, a full frame sensor. 00:02:19.700 --> 00:02:24.070 This right here, this is a beautiful thing. Yeah, 35mm across. 00:02:24.070 --> 00:02:26.143 The one in here would be about 9mm. 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, 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 00:02:37.640 --> 00:02:43.470 is it has back illuminated technology. So basically, in a normal sensor you have, you know, 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 00:02:48.140 --> 00:02:51.760 and stuff to your pixels, and a lot of it to read data and so on. 00:02:51.760 --> 00:02:57.110 And then your photo diodes are below that. Whereas in this, and this guy here, 00:02:57.110 --> 00:03:00.220 you have the photo diodes on top, and the metal wiring below it. 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, 00:03:04.700 --> 00:03:09.140 and not giving good picture. Because of that, you also receive more light, 00:03:09.140 --> 00:03:12.160 which can increase your low light performance. 00:03:12.160 --> 00:03:16.377 Oh, the magnet's directional. So it only goes in one way. 00:03:16.377 --> 00:03:19.520 And it's pretty strong, too. I like that it is a directional magnet, 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:24.570 because it would be pretty easy to accidentally put this on backwards, set it up, 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 00:03:55.610 --> 00:03:59.430 It looks premium. Oh, that's cool. Thing just boots right up. 00:03:59.430 --> 00:04:03.980 Select a preset that suits your style and how you want to appear on camera. 00:04:03.980 --> 00:04:10.320 Default, smooth, yeah beauty filter, vibrant, we'll just go with default and continue. 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. 00:04:15.830 --> 00:04:21.970 Sure. That's quite the set up. 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So you do definitely want to stay kind of 00:05:01.610 --> 00:05:04.663 in the center but it does a pretty good job of following me around. 00:05:05.990 --> 00:05:08.313 Hello, camera, can you get me? 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. 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:17.240 But it does do a pretty good job. I am really impressed with how 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, 00:05:21.810 --> 00:05:25.570 that's really bright. You've also got a lot of dark. 00:05:25.570 --> 00:05:28.590 This wall back here, all of this is really challenging, 00:05:28.590 --> 00:05:32.080 but it's doing a really great job of just exposing for my face 00:05:32.080 --> 00:05:36.020 instead of exposing for just random things that it picks up in the background. 00:05:36.020 --> 00:05:39.630 That can be a real problem on, well, any camera, 00:05:39.630 --> 00:05:42.383 but laptop webcams in particular. The zoom. 00:05:44.550 --> 00:05:48.080 It's just a digital zoom. It doesn't look fantastic. 00:05:48.080 --> 00:05:55.210 This feels kind of weird now. The priority, it says exposure or frame rate. 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 00:05:59.550 --> 00:06:03.440 in order to give you more exposure in low light situations. 00:06:03.440 --> 00:06:06.450 Can we turn the lights down here? So it just got a lot darker. 00:06:06.450 --> 00:06:10.730 Exposure's coming up. This is a really challenging situation for a webcam, 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, 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. 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, 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 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. 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:39.003 And then we go to exposure priority, and huh. 00:06:40.990 --> 00:06:44.860 It's kind of hard to tell, but I do think that is making a difference. 00:06:44.860 --> 00:06:47.970 It seems way more jello-y. The exposure on this is really good. 00:06:47.970 --> 00:06:52.060 Like the way that it automatically just changes. Take a look at this. 00:06:52.060 --> 00:06:56.010 So I'm moving the white balance. That's too blue. 00:06:56.010 --> 00:07:00.250 This is really hard to do. All right, well auto white balance, leave that on. 00:07:00.250 --> 00:07:03.790 That's my conclusion from that. That's at Dell, it would be really nice 00:07:03.790 --> 00:07:07.810 if you had numbers in there, pretty please. That would be a great update. 00:07:07.810 --> 00:07:11.170 So, sharpness. So I guess on a normal day 00:07:11.170 --> 00:07:14.890 you might wanna turn that up a bit so that you look nice and crisp. 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. 00:07:18.410 --> 00:07:21.410 So if you have like a pimple, you can't quite see it. (laughs) 00:07:21.410 --> 00:07:24.630 This is all pretty standard camera stuff, but it's fun to play with it. 00:07:24.630 --> 00:07:30.463 So let's compare these. This is a very practical camera to have as your webcam. 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:35.230 Going to talk into it here. It's a bit heavy. 00:07:35.230 --> 00:07:39.980 So bit out of most peoples budgets when it comes to webcams, for sure. 00:07:39.980 --> 00:07:43.300 But it can deliver just, I imagine, 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, 00:07:48.850 --> 00:07:52.180 you didn't even use like 4K. - What? 00:07:52.180 --> 00:07:57.440 Dang it. I can't believe that. See, this is why you have camera operators. 00:07:57.440 --> 00:08:00.780 Frame rate seems way lower now. I am like a jello-y mess. 00:08:00.780 --> 00:08:05.140 That must be why they were doing that. They were both set to 30, I believe. 00:08:05.140 --> 00:08:08.290 So this right here is 4K, 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, 00:08:15.010 --> 00:08:18.320 this seems really good. I am impressed. 00:08:18.320 --> 00:08:21.570 We just recorded the whole video in 1080p, damn it. 00:08:21.570 --> 00:08:26.637 So yeah, thanks for watching guys (laughs) - [Andy] Hey, you know, the 1080p is good. 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. 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. 00:08:38.670 --> 00:08:44.330 So anyway, yeah. This is the Dell Ultrasharp webcam, WB7022. 00:08:44.330 --> 00:08:47.560 I think it's a wicked little piece of tech. 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