I’ve Never Seen THIS Before!!! - NexiGo N970P 4K Webcam
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2023-05-05
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2,005 words · ~10 min read
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Oh, hey, this is a really big box for a webcam.
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What's the deal?
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Why is it so big?
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There's so many.
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You thought, is this a prank?
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You told me to unbox a webcam,
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but really it's gonna be a huge camera.
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Oh, okay, but still, wait.
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So this is a smaller box,
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but it's still pretty big box.
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Is that how long it is?
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The NexiGo 970P webcam?
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That's a long boy.
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Okay, so we got the NexiGo 970P
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AI-powered 4K EPS conference camera.
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What is EPS?
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What is that?
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No idea.
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Zoom certified.
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You are allowed to use this with Zoom.
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You heard it here first.
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So NexiGo sponsored this video,
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but we kind of wanted to take a look at this one anyways,
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because it's got the same sensor
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as that fancy Dell UltraSharp camera
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that Alex looked at many, many moons ago.
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It's a Sony one over 2.8 inch sensor,
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which Alex said translates to some other.
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You can translate that into a more sensible camera size.
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I think it's like five point something.
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Bigger is better, according to Andy.
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So that's what we're gonna go with.
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What other kind of features are they advertising on the box?
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Ultra HD 4K, which is good in a modern webcam.
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AI auto framing, which we're seeing
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in a few different models these days.
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Apple has their own thing from center stage.
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I almost said front stage.
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Camera, stage front.
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I'll see you there.
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Oh, it's not EPS.
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It's E-P-T-Z.
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We need to find out what that is.
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What is E-P-T-Z?
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PTZ stands for pan, tilt, and zoom.
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You have some cameras that can do that like mechanically,
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where the camera is actually moving,
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but E-P-T-Z means it's doing it electronically.
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So it's kind of like,
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you know, that's how they do the auto AI framing thing.
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Let's open it up.
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All right, let's take a look at this.
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Ooh, very smooth, very smooth unboxing experience.
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It comes with a thick, that's a thick boy.
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It's a thick USB cable.
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Oh yeah, so there's a 9.84 feet or three meter
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black USB 3.0 cable.
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And here we have some sort of mounting doohickey.
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That I will figure out how to use in a second.
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Is that what that is?
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You re, that's spoilers.
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Ah, here's the remote.
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So I, you know, I don't think I've ever seen a webcam
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with a dedicated remote and especially one this big before.
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Does not come with batteries.
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And the webcam itself.
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Wow.
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Like I, man, I wasn't,
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we were not kidding when we said this is a long boy.
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Look at that.
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That is, that's so wide.
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That's so wide.
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Okay, I like the mounting mechanism.
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It's a similar to some other webcam mounting solutions
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that I've seen.
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Although there's no turning.
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Can't swivel.
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Unless, unless I'm just tripping.
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Yeah, we do not have swivel on there.
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So that's, that's too bad.
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Yeah, so we got the big man that like the big main lens
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there to house that big old Sony sensor
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we were talking about.
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And I'm guessing these are mics on the,
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on the either side here.
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Let's plug this sucker in and see how she goes
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after I verify whether Jonna was telling the truth
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about the privacy screen.
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Is, is, ah, I see.
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So you can just flip it up like that.
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You see that, Andy?
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No one can see me.
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It's so big.
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Look at this.
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I can gesture with it.
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I can gesture at someone.
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Over there, you're gonna wanna, yeah,
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check it out over there.
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There's some other worse webcams in that general direction.
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But over here, this is what you want.
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A big, the thick boy.
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Get yourself a thick webcam.
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I'm gonna keep talking about this.
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This is, this is no joke.
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This isn't for like, is this for streaming, you think?
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Or is it for, is it, are we streaming or are we dancer?
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You don't recognize that?
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No.
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The killers?
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The editor will definitely know what I'm talking about.
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Okay, I mean, not a bad image right out of the box.
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Looking pretty sharp.
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Can you see my pores with the 4K?
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A little bit.
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That's good.
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I want people to see.
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I'm not perfect.
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Okay.
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We're a little warm for my taste,
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but in terms of like the sharpness that we're seeing here,
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I'm, I like it.
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There's some detail.
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You can see like the little imperfections
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in the warehouse wall.
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Let's see if I can warm it up a little bit
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with the NexiGo panel here.
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White balance.
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Let's turn that off auto.
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Hmm.
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I'm very sad.
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Yeah, I mean, the auto looked fine.
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I mean, like, I think I'd be fine, like, using this,
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for a, for a conference call or something.
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It's not like horribly off-putting.
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So NexiGo has actually made this a little simpler
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for the average person who's not going to be able
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to like plug this in and then go,
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know to go like download the proper software or something.
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You just got this remote
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and this is how you enable the AI feature.
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Is that what you're saying?
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Is that what you're telling me, Jono?
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Yep.
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Press the top right button.
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Top, what?
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This?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Oh, so it is showing up.
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It's showing up on the webcam feed.
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If you're having a meeting
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and you wanted to use the,
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the menu in the middle of the meeting,
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they would see what you're doing there with the,
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going between the different options.
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This is interesting.
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I've never seen this before.
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Maybe there are webcams out there that use this,
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but this is new to me.
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So you have a remote.
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It brings up an OSD,
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like you're using a TV or a monitor or something.
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And I guess I'm going to go to setup, auto-framing,
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image style.
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What?
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Oh, normal, clarity, bright, soft.
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Default.
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Okay.
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Well, auto-framing.
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Let's see how,
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let's see how this baby does following me around the room.
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Oh, close.
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Wait, it's already on?
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Open.
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Okay.
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So it,
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open means it's kind of like keeping a pretty wide frame
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still, but it will follow you.
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Oh, let's go to two sensitivity.
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I was on zero, I think.
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Take that Apple.
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Although we're not really zooming in.
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Oh, it did zoom in a little bit.
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Welcome to my seminar.
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Now, I'm so glad you,
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I'm so glad you came to my online seminar,
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but I have something to show you over there.
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Destined for greatness.
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That was pretty good.
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Hello.
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When auto-framing set to close,
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that appears to not do anything.
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But when you go to open,
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then that's when we get the movement.
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This is my chair.
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Exposure.
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Okay, so now these are different options than we saw
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in the NexiGo software.
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Maybe this is okay.
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We'll see here.
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Mode, manual, SAE.
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What's EV?
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On.
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They give you a free electric vehicle.
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Increasing that is just making me look more like I'm,
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I live in a volcano.
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DRC looks like it's raising shadows.
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Dynamic range.
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Dynamic range.
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Oh, okay.
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We want maximum dynamic range, baby.
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Again.
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What does again mean?
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Andy, help me.
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Okay, so the prevailing theory here is that, again, this is,
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the prevailing theory here is that, again, just means gain,
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and they just add a little bit of a mix-up.
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I think my takeaway from this menu thing is that
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this is pretty cool for people who would not be as,
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you know, technically literate as like PC gamers,
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such as you and I.
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But they can use a little bit of a polish
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in the menu system for sure.
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It's a little bit confusing to go through.
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However, what I have discovered is that there's a lot of
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depth to these options.
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You can really dig in there and cycle between all sorts
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of different modes and settings options
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that you can really make your webcam look the way
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you want it to look more or less
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within the physical restraints of reality.
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But there's a lot of options there, so that's good.
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And yeah, you can save it as a preset.
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So what I've done, I just saved the preset as it is
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on preset number one.
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If you hold button number one, that's what you can do.
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You can save it as a preset.
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However, it seems like that doesn't really work
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with the different color settings and stuff,
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but it does work with framing.
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So if I press the zoom button, can you see that Andy?
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There's a zoom button on the remote.
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And I can just zoom right in on myself.
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Wait, no, not over there.
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Hi, Gladey!
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Wait, I can-
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Why are you up there?
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I can save it.
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This is what I like.
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And those presets are saved to the camera,
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so you can take the camera with you to whatever you're going
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and have your framing presets already set.
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So that's nice.
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This is the audio from the Nexigo webcam.
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Tell me what you think.
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I don't know what it sounds like yet.
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Hey, can you hear me when I'm over here, Nexigo webcam?
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Apparently there's an audio range of 20 feet
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and I'm only like, what is this, 10, 15, 12?
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Apple thinks they're so cool.
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Apple thinks they're so smart with the center stage.
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Ooh, look at us.
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We got you covered.
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We just make a foot long webcam
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and it can do everything you can do.
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This is the 720p webcam built into this laptop
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and right away you can tell a massive difference.
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Let's go back to the Nexigo.
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I mean, it's night and day.
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I think there are still, you know, some color profiles,
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some color settings that I would change with this setup,
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but like just from fiddling with it for like a few minutes,
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being able to get it to this level of quality, whoa.
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Whoa.
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Look at the shadows around my hands.
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That's like, that's probably the result of me
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like affecting some sort of like black level setting.
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I changed, I touched something.
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That's a massive difference between the 720p 30 FPS.
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On this one, it's a 4k.
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I think it is actually set to 30 FPS right now.
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Ooh, jiggly, jiggly, jello, wello.
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Okay.
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This is how I just changed the shutter speed to 120
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to count for the 60 FPS that it's doing.
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that it's recording on.
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So, and this already looks a lot better, so.
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Well, at the end of the day, this is a sharp image.
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I mean, it's a lot better than a lot of other webcams
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that you can find on the market that are kind of overpriced.
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But like, this is a,
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especially with the amount of customization you can do.
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Thanks for sponsoring this video, NexiGo.
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And if you guys are interested in this webcam,
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you can check it out at the link below.
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for more videos like this, where, you know,
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like I check out, I take things out of a box
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and we talk about it.
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And Jono throws out suggestions.
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And I tell him to stop.
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Stop doing it.
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Surprise!