Logitech C922 Webcam EXCLUSIVE First Look!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,292 words · ~6 min read
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we're here at Logitech to check out the c922 webcam it is a direct replacement
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for the legendary C920 webcam which is used by a huge amount of streamers
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including myself the c922 features two
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main new modes 60fps at 720p and
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background replacement let's see how it fares against its tried and trusted
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older
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brother the be quiet! dark Bass Pro 900
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modular design supports a variety of different layouts and configurations
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click on the link in the video description to learn more let's start
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with the most drastic feature change they now have background replacement
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they've opted not to use Intel real sense we've seen that applied in a few
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different background replacement cameras in the past instead of using a depth
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sensing camera they went with a strictly software solution which is mainly
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focused on shape recognition and comparing contrast levels now when I
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first caught wind of this I thought it was going to be terrible and it wasn't
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at all it was actually rather awesome especially for an amateur streamer or
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something like that it's not going to replace an actual green screen or blue
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screen or something like that but it does a really good job with what it has
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which is actually very impressive especially when we put it in Crazy
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scenarios like pointing it towards a window that was partially open and a
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super variabl back wall something that it shouldn't do very good with to test
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out how well it worked Ed and I ran it through a number of scenarios including
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a few different torture tests where where we expected it to really start
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failing was mainly when we reduced the light in the room and to be fair it did
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get worse but it was impressive that it actually functioned at all we even did
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some testing where we rapidly moved the camera around changing the angle of
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attack that the camera had on the person that it was trying to record this would
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be problematic for a camera that is trying to base its background
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replacement based off the shape of your body and we tried it against a few
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different backgrounds even rapidly changing the backgrounds again there
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were some problems here but it was rather impressive that it functioned at
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all because this was a pretty intense scenario for this type of background
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replacement now again because it's basing itself off of shape recognition
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and contrast helping it out by giving it a second to really recognize what's
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going on in the scene having a basic solid background and having ample
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lighting can really help it out if you want to step up the experience now if
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you do want to put something like a foldable green screen or something
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behind you even if you don't have the throw distance and lighting that you
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would normally expect from a green screen experience you can get a lot out
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of it by using that in combination with the background replacement software and
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a chroma key through whatever streaming software you're using I'll also point
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out that it had an easier time tracking myself than edzel but I would expect
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that is probably due to the reflective properties of his glasses than anything
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else now moving on to 60fps this was enough to sell me on the camera entirely
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by itself before I even heard about the background replacement stuff it streams
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at 60fps 720p just like a huge huge
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amount of twitch streamers because of the max bit rate cap that twitch has
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it's kind of the best way to stream right now so having your webcam being
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able to stream at that same frame rate that same frame rate that pcmr likes is
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very very cool and I must note that checking the settings is rather
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important as the fact of it running at 60fps is a little bit Dynamic for
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instance if you enable low light compensation it's not going to work it
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has to slow down the frame rate so it can get more light per frame dropping
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you down to about 15 FPS not 60 and
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enabling other things can drop it down to 30 even so just make sure that it's
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actually functioning at 60 if that's what your goal is with all the settings
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between the c922 and the C920 set at the
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same thing I did personally find the c922 to be considerably better
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especially when looking at my hair you could really see the older C920 struggle
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with loads of artifacting lines while the newer c922 handled it much better
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managing to look a lot less like the footage I would expect to come from a
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traditional webcam and again I have some additional notes here I would highly
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recommend diving into the manual settings edzel brought this up and I
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definitely agree the sharpness seems to be too low by default they could change
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this later on but just so you know and depending on your setup you might want
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to have different exposure contrast brightness etc etc dive into the manual
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settings you can get a lot more out of the camera that way if you opt to get
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the non-x version you can get an included little mini tripod if you want
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to not mount it on top of your monitor like I expect most of you to do and I
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would also note that I believe the mic in here is the same as the original C920
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meaning it's pretty bad and I would highly recommend that you buy an
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external mic if you're shopping for this thing look at it for its awesome visual
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qualities not the included microphone although included with it comes I
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believe a few months of xplit premium Now last but not least for you security
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fans out there the form factor is essentially identical meaning that it
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works with the old C920 privacy cover and considering that FBI
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director James Comey has recently recommended covering your webcam that
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Linus techtips in the how did You Hear About Us section but now I want to know
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what you guys think are you considering upgrading to this over your current C920
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or if you're shopping for a webcam is it just better that this is supposedly the
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same price and better in basically every area and has more features or do you
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just not care let us know in the comments down below or on Twitter @
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Linus thanks for watching check out Amazon to buy one of these things if you
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would like check out the link in the description down below to buy a t-shirt like this one which is cool like the
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Forum to talk about this camera and other cool things and I'll see you next
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time