Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
by notretarded on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:12AM
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How?
On iOS there's an app called Camo. There are probably others.
Camo (https://reincubate.com/camo/) has been absolutely fantastic. I wanted to use my iPhone Xs when on calls and not have to fiddle with with plugging it in every time I needed a video, so I ended up using an old iPhone 6 and it still destroys every webcam. $40/year isn't the cheapest but it works so much better than EpocCam (which I had been using before).
Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
by bamurphymac1 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @12:14PM
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I’d second this. Camo is fantastic and with an armature mounted above my monitor I can get a much more flattering angle with a great picture even on an old 6+ front facing camera.
Camo is fantastic.
“Droid”Cam does a good job of turning my iPhone Xs into a USB webcam for Ubuntu.
Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
by stock_toaster on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @06:45PM
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iphone + lightning-digital-av-adapter + airmix solo[1] + camlink-4k = webcam
[1]: app that gives nice clean hdmi output, and has decent color/brightness controls
Main thing real cameras are better at is bokeh, but you won’t get that in a webcam. And software can passably fake it these days.