How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face (2020)

Re:How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face (2... by umeshunni on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @09:59PM (#31429849)

But a used old dSLR. It'll still be light years better than a cheap webcam.

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Re:How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face (2... by exodust on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @10:07PM (#31429895)

> better

For portrait photography, yes. For meeting with colleagues, no.

Audio quality and network performance is light years more important than focal length and bokeh of your talking head.

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Re:How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face (2... by samatman on Thursday May 19, 2022 @07:52AM (#31433310)

A mirrorless or even an older DLSR will be a marked improvement for meeting with colleagues as well. They use HDMI out, and they aren't really be suggested for audio, so neither of the factors you mentioned are even involved.

Of course if you sound like crap and can't stream at a decent bitrate, fix that first / as well. But with crisp audio and a decent Net connection, there's plenty of room to improve video quality from awful to decent, and your colleagues notice both, whether they realize it or not.

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Re:How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face (2... by exodust on Thursday May 19, 2022 @10:25PM (#31442657)

> realize

Perhaps you mean "care".

To not realize a visual quality difference, is to not notice.

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