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Re:Using a "proper" camera as a webcam by Pamar on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @01:44AM (#31419601)
I haven't read the whole thread, so maybe I am just repeating a point someone else made.

I draw as a hobby; during the pandemic, lots of people started hosting art posing sessions over Zoom (here is an example of one of my sessions, model was in Mexico - I live in Europe: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb8WpdEAsOk/?utm_source=ig_web_c...) so I was interested in this article because it looked like something that could make a difference for some of the studios/models I worked with.

Well... it is not really practical. Models do not have large budgets for a start, and are not necessarily tech savvy enough to put together something like this or make it work reliably.

Some places do combined live/online sessions (artists are in the room with the model and there is also a camera for people drawing remotely). I sincerely doubt that this would be of use even for studios.

I believe that online modeling could be a valid use case, but the cost/hassle ratio makes it absolutely impractical for anyone who could be even remotely interested in something like this.

In other words: as the article itself mentions at the start "The market for decent quality webcams seems to be non-existent". Just like "build your AV". It may be an interesting project for a blog post, but it is really improbable that anyone else would try to replicate the endeavor.

Re:Using a "proper" camera as a webcam by jephson on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @01:48AM (#31419617)
> really improbable that anyone else would try to replicate the endeavor.

Not so, this week I bought one of the cameras mentioned in the article for the same purpose.

Re:Using a "proper" camera as a webcam by Pamar on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @03:51AM (#31420262)
I am glad for you that you can afford this, but I still think it is really too expensive/complicated for the benefits you are supposed to get from it.