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Re:Opal Camera by poglet on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:24PM (#28463795)
I agree, It looks like the main difference between the Macbook webcam and the others was the exposure. If the Opal software worked with the Mac camera allowing adjustments of exposure and white balance that would be perfect (with the lack of true depth of field & 4k)

When I read about webcams most of the comments revolve around the microphone quality, I think there should be more focus on that, for example noise reduction technology etc. Marketing could also be made towards video game streamers who often use digital cameras and dedicated mics.

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Re:Opal Camera by semi-extrinsic on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:38PM (#28463921)
I also came here to say that the comparisons are bad wrt. exposure. If you don't believe in your product enough to give fair comparisons, then I'm not buying it.

Also, with regards to the "works in low light" point: we recently had a problem where the lights went out during a web meeting in the evening. I was surprised to see my $75 Logitech C920 took about two seconds to adjust exposure and give a perfectly good image just from the light of my monitor.

And with the amount of video compression that is used, I'm not sure anyone is able to tell the difference.

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Re:Opal Camera by bayindirh on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @06:33PM (#28463872)
Logitech is making webcams with good microphones for a very long time. Their highest end ones (e.g. Brio Ultra HD) also have build in noise cancellation IIRC
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