Elgato - Facecam MK.2
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"the white one is on sale on Amazon for about $350 which is a steal"
"I'm on my second one in 7 years"
"I would say that the investment was more than worthwhile."
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"the Elgato Facecam MK.2 still looked worse and less natural than the Obsbot Meet 2 did straight out of the box for me (for the same price). After browsing a lot of threads too, I'm not the only one. A lot of people are disappointed with the Elgato, and when compared to the Obsbot, it almost always loses"
"insanely good picture quality for a webcam ... Its almost indistinguishable from an actual DSLR"
"I have the elgato face cam pro and I can tell you it's a beast of a camera. ... It's definitely much better quality than any other webcam on the market. ... It's nearly DSLR quality if set right."
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"Just slightly over your budget but well worth it for the customization/LUT software alone, not to mention the actual quality of the camera you’re getting for the price."
"The supporting software allows me to dial in the light and zooming look I want and save them to one of presets."
"I just bought an Elgato Facecam MK.2 for $109 and it’s fantastic for the price. ... Just slightly over your budget but well worth it for the customization/LUT software alone, not to mention the actual quality of the camera you’re getting for the price."
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"it works pretty flawless with obs as well"
"is controllable by my Stream Deck"
"Integrates well with my current setup"
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"it works pretty flawless with obs as well"
"I am really happy with the quality and settings it comes with ... Elgato is basically present in everyones stream nowadays in one form or another and they really look for their products to be made towards streamers"
"Just slightly over your budget but well worth it for the customization/LUT software alone, not to mention the actual quality of the camera you’re getting for the price."
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"they have no mic option AFAIK"
"no mic option"
"Neither Klean or Vivace come with a mic btw."
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"Unless you're video editing guru, it's damn near impossible to get the same quality you see from the advertisements or from any of the popular youtube reviewers."
"I have a Logitech c270 it looks pretty shit"
"I know because of its small size that the 360 Go is not offering you anywhere near the image quality you could get from a Pocket 3. ... If you're a sucker for image quality, a 360 camera ain't it."
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"the Elgato Facecam MK.2 was a disaster to setup in OBS with a green screen and pretty good lighting.. I tried and tried and tweaked and still couldnt get it right."
"That camera physically looked high quality and sucked in OBS.. I tried to tweak it for hours with little luck."
"I couldnt get the facecam to not look washed out.."
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"the Elgato Facecam MK.2 was a disaster to setup in OBS with a green screen and pretty good lighting.. I tried and tried and tweaked and still couldnt get it right."
"I needed it to work good with OBS and also work good in low light with a greenscreen.. For me it did both very well and I couldnt get the Elgato to work as good.."
"That camera physically looked high quality and sucked in OBS.. I tried to tweak it for hours with little luck."
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"It does not have an in-built microphone"
acrazyr 1.0facecam mk2 100%
AshCreDas 1.0About the same tbh. The MK2 might have a better base setting color wise and slightly larger fov , but they both do 1080p60fps. Another choice, though, could be an OBSBOT. I remember hearing good things about them, and they run $70-150 depending on the model. The tracking feature is an interesting bonus
cp8477 1.0I'm a fan of the Elgato Facecam. I've had both the Mk 1 and Mk 2, and love them both. Software is good but not perfect. Good in low and bright light. Good color accuracy. Ability to utilize LUTs if you want.
elgato_phil 1.0Facecam Neo, Facecam MK.2 and Facecam 4K are now Switch 2 compatible after a firmware update Learn more - [https://www.elgato.com/us/en/explorer/products/camera/how-to-use-your-elgato-webcam-with-nintendo-switch-2/](https://www.elgato.com/us/en/explorer/products/camera/how-to-use-your-elgato-webcam-with-nintendo-switch-2/)
Famous_Shape_9502 1.0people are giving you great webcam options already, but was gonna say make sure to check ebay for some savings. The amount of people who will buy expensive products to stream, then give up quick, means there are a ton of good, lightly used, streaming equipment on there so could easily get the elgato face cam mk2 for a deal, and is one I personally have used and it looks great. Def a great webcam to get and only upgrade to it, imo, would be going down the DSLR camera as a webcam road.
FerretBomb 1.0I have two Logitech BRIOs sitting on the shelf, because they're useless basket-case shitgoblins. They error out, overheat, glitch, disconnect, and generally are just trash. I bought two because the whitesheet made them look like the perfect webcam. They are not. They look WORSE than a c920 even in perfect lighting somehow. I'll regularly take one off the shelf and update the software and firmware to see if it's fixed yet. Still no, so far. I'd recommend one of the Elgato Facecams if you're going with a webcam. The Mk2 or Pro both are at the upper end of what a webcam is going to be capable of, and punch almost on-par with a starter grade DSLR/mirrorless.
Elgato c920 is the gold-standard starter cam. You can find them on-sale for around $50 usually. Of those three, I'd go with the Elgato. Avoid the BRIO like the basket-case shitgoblin it is (I have two sitting on the shelf, they're worthless little turdbuckets that constantly error and look like absolute crap, even compared to a c920; I bought them when they first came out as their whitesheet makes them look like the perfect cam, but THEY ARE NOT). > Btw, I do stream at 4k60 You must be streaming to YouTube, then? Because Twitch's max bitrate would make any 4K60 stream look like hot fried poop. Absolutely unwatchable. Doubling down on the Facecam Mk2 (or bump up to the Pro), it's going to give the best quality out of the three.
The Facecam mk2 is a solid device. Remember that you'll hear complaints from those with problems, and nothing from all the people for whom it works without issues. I *will* point out that they just brought out the Facecam4K though; I'm waiting until Black Friday to see if there's a price drop since it's only about a month away, and plan to pick up a couple of them for my workbench setup. While 4K60 might kinda be overkill for a 1080p stream, it also allows you to pull a cleaner chromakey if you plan to use a greenscreen, and lets you "zoom in" (by resizing up to native and cropping the cam) with no picture quality loss, where a 1080p60 cam would turn into a much more pixelated view.
Elgato Facecam Mk2. No idea if it's on-par with an Iphone, but it's quite decent, does 1080p60, and should retain settings. It's actually on sale on Amazon at the moment. They also just brought out the Elgato Facecam 4K, but I haven't got hands-on with one of those. The specs look good, doing 4K60 video for $200, which is just insane. Tempted to pick one up myself at the moment actually, looking at it. The c920 settings reset is a Logitech firmware issue that pops up on some systems, and has been around for *years* now and is still un-fixed. Really annoyed with Logi in general for a lot of their camera and controller stuff.
Iamthechallenger87 1.0Whatever you do, don’t get the brio. I’d lean towards the OBSbot. It’s the same price as the Facecam MkII, and yeah you’ll only be streaming at 1080p, but the image will be that much sharper if your face cam is ever full screen if you’re running the webcam at 4k. The downside is, it’s only 30 fps so you’ll get a lot of motion blur unless you can change the shutter speed. If all you want is 1080p60, the Mk II is a fine choice and opens up the camera hub software for you which is a great piece of software.
Icy-Drawing-3281 1.0just got my facecam mk 2 a couple weeks ago its honestly great.
ItsKrackenReleased 1.0I bought the webcam mk2 and it lags pretty bad under any kind of load, I would probably recommend any other elgato webcam
Kiseji 1.0Elgato mk2, its nice! Pretty good with no lightning aswell
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