AVerMedia 4K webcam for PC, Gaming Camera for Streaming, Video Calls, Built-in Mic, Privacy Cover, for Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, OBS and more, for PC/Mac - PW513 Live Streamer CAM

I have had Logitech C920s and C922s for Macs and PCs in my company for several years, and they all have lousy color, no matter how well lighted and what color adjustments I make. I either look like a grainy beet or Orange Man with those cameras, and I have professional studio lighting that can vary the brightness and light warmth (white point). Colors of background objects display even worse. The last straw was when Logitech "upgraded" their driver software, which made it worse. I either look like my face is made of putty, or I have chicken pox.I happened to do a webinar with a friend who has an AverMedia webcam, and he looked flawless on a PC; perfect color and good resolution with overhead fluorescent lights, so I bought the AverMedia PW315. I was concerned from the lack of reviews on MacOS that the camera might not work well, but it works great on my 2019 MacBook Pro 15" 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 running Big Sur. I do a lot of webinars and web meetings, so skin tone and correct color are important for my use. I'm not a gamer, so I couldn't care less about that.The documentation for Macs is sparse, so it was unclear if this webcam needs software to manage the camera settings, and it does need the CamEngine app on MacOS or Windows, which you can download from AverMedia's web site. The documentation says the camera doesn’t need a driver installed, which technically is true for MacOS, but Windows does already have a driver for it, so on PCs technically it does have a driver, although you don’t have to install one. With either OS, you need the CamEngine software to make adjustments. I would ignore the review that says this cam is useless on Macs, that’s nonsense, it works fine on my 3 MacBook Pros and 2 Mac Pros.That app has a lot of settings to adjust color, focus, white point, brightness and contrast, and improve skin tone and focus. The only drawback to this 60fps camera is it has about a 2-second lag time, so I can raise my hand and put it back down before the camera displays it. A minor annoyance for me; not sure how it would work for gaming.If you're not well lit, the image can appear grainy, but that's true with any web cam. Conversely, if you’re over lit, you’ll look washed out. So it’s advisable to get lights in front of you that you can adjust the brightness on. It helps a lot with any web cam to have good, balanced lighting. If I turn on my small studio lights and have a window next to me with no blinds, that side gets a bit over exposed. I suspect the people complaining about poor color or saturation don’t have decent lighting and are relying on home light fixtures and window lighting only.While the camera has fixed focus, no auto focus, it doesn't need it since the lens depth of field is excellent. I am in focus sitting 2 feet away from the camera, and the background about 10 feet behind me is also in focus. Again, proper lighting makes all the difference.The built-in camera mount works well hanging over a monitor, but I prefer to use an Olisicht Mini Projector Wall Ceiling Mount 215mm on Amazon to mount it to the 1/4" x 20 screw mount, placed on a monitor stand to bring the camera to eye level.The lens cover slides right to left over the lens and works fine. Camera build quality is as good as my Logitech C920s and 922s.I love this web cam and will be replacing all Logitech cams in my company with these.

This is a very high quality webcam that gets about as close as you can get to a DSLR while still having the simplicity and affordability of a webcam. Some early negative reviews were due to the fact that the early firmware in this camera required studio lighting to get a good quality picture. Recent firmware updates have dramatically improved camera performance in more typical lighting conditions although lighting can significantly improve picture quality like is the case for all cameras. I purchased this to run on my Linux system running PopOS 20.10, a derivative of Ubuntu. While you'll want access to Windows or MacOS to run the firmware update utility since the recent firmware updates profoundly improve the camera's performance and picture quality, the camera works flawlessly in Linux and is plug and play with no driver installation or special setup required. I would highly recommend this camera for people wanting a webcam capable of top tier image quality. I had also considered the logitech brio and the razor kiyo pro. While I haven't tried these other options, from what I gather reading and watching reviews, this camera is sharper and crisper than the brio although the brio has better color accuracy so consider which is better for your use case. The kiyo pro provides the best performance in lower lighting conditions. Additionally the kiyo pro reports a slightly wider viewing angle but suffers from a fisheye effect making rhe AVerMedia more desirable at a wide field of view. The AVerMedia does not have autofocus, which makes for a better experience for presenting so long as you're staying a normal distance from the camera. The logitech autofocus performs reasonably well although any autofocus can be annoying for typical use cases. The Kiyo Pro has terrible autofocus at time of release, but it can be disabled. The microphone quality on all of these seems reasonable, but I don't see the point of putting a microphone in a high-end webcam. I can't imagine that anyone would spend over $100 on a webcam and not use an external microphone.

I'm not really sure what the stigmatism is for these small low quality cameras being so expensive but this is the cheapest "high" quality webcam I could find. But only one of the webcams is good quality.Pros;- The Right camera is very good quality, no latency and you can make the image pretty sharp and adjust the angle as you please.- Two cameras allow for some good multi angles.- Only needs one cable and it's USB Type C.- The quality of the materials is very very good. A mix of good plastics and metal where it's needed.- The stand it comes with has a metal ball instead of a plastic one and it holds firmly in place in any position as well as a high range of motion.- Easy to install any drivers or software needed, once plugged in it'll prompt you with the download.Cons;- The stand looks adjustable but it's only actually two different heights, default and fully extended.- One camera is a lower quality than the adjustable camera. Not sure why you can't make both the same.- It didn't come in a package, it came with the box it's inside of. Minor gripe I suppose but it is a webcam, they put the ugly packaging sticker on the front and I was worried it was broken based on how dirty and banged up the box was.