How to use your DSLR from 2008 as a webcam in 2022 (NixOS)

Re:How to use your DSLR from 2008 as a webcam in 2022 (NixOS) by stavros on Sunday November 13, 2022 @10:58AM (#33584191)

I've been using an old Android phone as a webcam for a while, it's very good and latency is minimal, but conferencing software will just kill your stream. There's no reason to have even an HD webcam when your fellow participants will see a very compressed 0.4 Mpixel stream.

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Re:How to use your DSLR from 2008 as a webcam in 2022 (NixOS) by throwaway46829 on Sunday November 13, 2022 @12:41PM (#33585276)

I don't think resolution is everything, I can definitely notice that the image is "better" in other ways when people are using proper cameras (whereas for a phone camera the resolution is a bigger part of what makes it better than a webcam), I'm quite happy with my own webcam being clear but not too clear though, it's a meeting not Instagram.

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Re:How to use your DSLR from 2008 as a webcam in 2022 (NixOS) by vouaobrasil on Sunday November 13, 2022 @01:02PM (#33585553)

A normal lens in the 50mm to 85mm range farther away will show your features much less distorted than the typical wide-angle lenses of webcams. Wide-angle lenses close to your face will make your closer features like your nose look bigger. It's basically very ugly.

Doing this is less for the image quality and more for the natural representation of your face.

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