H200 Webcam with Microphone & Speaker 1080p 3 in 1 HD Streaming Business Webcam Meeting USB Webcam for YouTube Skype Facetime PC Mac Laptop Desktop

SKU: GW50.0016

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Overall Rating 4.6   411
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5
Three Things to Pay Attention To: Angle of Lens, Lighting, and Sound
Most of us are not pros at choosing cameras. While I'm a photographer, I didn't know what I should get in a webcam other than high definition. Thus, my first camera I bought, for under $30, promised 1080 high definition, autofocus, and light correction. That was all great. Then I realized while I was on Zoom calls that the 110-degree wide-angle lens made me smaller than the people I spoke to. Rather than capturing my head and shoulders, the camera displayed my whole torso. If I moved closer,, then I looked a bit clown-like and I was too close to the screen to see it easily. That camera captured the whole room, too, with the edges of the room bending in, which wide-angle lenses do. I wanted a portrait lens, if there were such a thing.I didn't find a portrait lens, or a lens that I could zoom to different degrees, but I settled on this camera, the Nexigo N680E. I bought it because it has an 80-degree lens, which, indeed does not distort the room or make my nose look bigger than it is. Eighty degrees is still wide angle, but it's less so. I don't know why webcams are boasting wider angles as if that's better. I see a few celebrating 120 degrees. What's the point of showing of so much of your room and making you look distorted?The other thing I bought this for is the ring light around the lens, which you can adjust to three different intensities. Such light softens the wrinkles in your face, if you have such things. My room has a window to the side, which shows off wrinkles, so I liked the idea of this ring light. In mid-day, the ring light doesn't do a lot, but the highest intensity does softens my lines a little. I like that.This camera boasts stereo microphones, and they are in the back. When I played back a Zoom session, my sound was a little echoey as it was with the two other cameras I've tried. It may be that my room adds to that. Next, I'm going to try using earbuds with a microphone to see if that's better. My students can hear me just fine. Perhaps I'm asking too much to sound as if I were in a studio. Still we can dream.I don't know why I'm only the third review for this camera, the best one I've used besides the built-in camera and mic on my Apple Macbook Air. The privacy cover, for the person who reviewed saying there was no cover, is very small, about the size of a thumbnail. In the box, it looks like a free sample of something you might throw away. You get two covers and have to stick one over the lens. I'm glad a got two because the first one I attached I immediately used incorrectly and pulled it apart. Then I saw the cover slides. It's delicate. The second one works fine.
17/09/2020
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