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Good Evening!

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For this video, i had to wait for complete 
darkness outside

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as for this video, i need completely artificial 
lights

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to adress the second topic of critic me

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which was lights and camera.

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I did find it interesting, that critic me 
admitted, my lights weren't really good

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because who ever have seen this can't really 
claim

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"Okay, that is doing allright. Your lights 
are great, everything is fine!"

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No. My lights aren't great.

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You see a seemingly slightly blurry image

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This is caused by a glaring light source 
that seems bright

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but actually isn't enough for this webcam.

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Let me show you some thing.

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Right...

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What you see right now are default settings.

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This is what the webcam makes out of what 
its "seeing".

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Its complete automation - let me set the 
white ballance to automatic as well.

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This is what the webcam does by itself.

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It has - uh, still - a slight blurr to it

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because the webcam simply cannot make anything 
better out of it.

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On top of that - if you take a look at the 
ceiling - it now has a strong visible noise 
to it.

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This noise is caused by not enough light 
being present in this room.

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What the webcam does like this is to counteract 
the low light by adding artificial amplification 
to the light

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This also causes especially the left of my 
face to be almost blown out by too much light.

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It's even worse with the T-Shirt i am wearing.

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It's - for the most part - completely lost 
in brightness.

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So what can we do about it? Lets try changing 
the settings manually.

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I started by disabling the automatic white 
balance, removing the "default" autocorrection.

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I replaced it with a setting that i know 
to be roughly correct.

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This is the result. Yea, i think that's about 
right.

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The tone of my face's skin looks halfway 
healthy i guess.

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The background has a greenish tint to it 
on screen, but honestly, thats exactly what 
my room looks like.

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This should give you a good impression of 
what to actually expect of this allegedly 
warm-white light.

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Cameras will show you. Cameras will alway 
expose the inconsistency between the companies 
claims and what you will actually get.

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The issue is the human eye, which is easily 
deceived.

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But - oh well, I digress.

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I'm disabling the automatic exposure. I'm 
disabling the low light compensation.

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All of these settings. I changed the exposure 
to a manual setting of -5.

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I am lowering the gain.

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And you might have noticed: The camera tried 
to focus.

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I'm disabling the auto focus feature.

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What you can see right now is - in my oppinion 
- the best you can get out of this camera.

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Let it be just a tiny bit of gain left in 
the settings, if you really need to (the 
artificial amplification)

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But for the love of god, don't overdo it 
or you will end up with an unusably noisy 
image.

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So what you can see right now is simply the 
best I could get out of the cam like this 
- using manual settings.

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You can't get it any better.

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I could now start any try setting the gain 
even lower, from -5 to -6.

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But this would cause two things: 1) It gets 
darker. 2) As you can see, it flickers.

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And now get this: If i raise the gain even 
further, the flicker gets really nasty!

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The flicker you can see is visible, even 
tho I did sett the power line frequency correctly.

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And changing this to 60 hz doesn't do it 
any better. It changes the frequency of the 
flicker a little, but it's still there.

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As you can see, there is no changing this. 
And this flicker has to be unbearable for 
you so let me change this real quick.

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It was only for demonstration anyways.

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Right...

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So this is simply the best to be expected 
out of this webcam

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With this light - like i said - this is the 
best, this webcam can do.

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You can also notice a certain blur on the 
image, which is caused by too little light.

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Well... Yea, you've seen what I did. I tried 
tinkering with the settings already. That 
is all. You can't do better.

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These are idealized settings. There is no 
way, you can do it better.

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And this - for example - is just one reason 
for me to decide: I am interested in the 
Logitech Brio.

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Yes, I do and I admit it! And let it be its 
160 Euros.

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Actually, i'd have to admit: It is interesting 
to me, BECAUSE it costs it's 160 Euros.

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It was 250 Euros when it first launched. 
And to this i got to say: Sorry, but No. 
Just no. I'm a cam nerd, but: No!!

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And that's because i've seen YT Videos of 
guys who actually have a DSLR and proper 
light, who tested this Cam against a DSLR.

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So we're talking Brio VS DSLR Monster. And 
they compared the lower tier models as well, 
like the C922 and C920.

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What can I say? The lower tier models got 
completely annihilated.

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At too much light, They did exactly what 
I have shown you before: Everything becomes 
too bright too fast, the highlights get blown 
out, the highlights get lest in brightness.

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The Brio was able to cope much better. It 
also was sharper image.

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It also had a better contrast. The only thing 
it could not do and there will never be a 
webcam than can do it

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- at least as long as they are built the 
way they are now -

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you cannot blurr out the background. For 
that it needs a lot more light incidence, 
a stronger lense, a bigger sensor.

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And this simply is not possible with a webcam.

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But apart from this - like i said before 
- for that money, especially, if you consider 
what you still need.

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You need the DSLR, you need a lens, you need 
some sort of mount, you need cables.

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You probably need some sort of dongle to 
run the DSLR on a power adapter at a power 
outlet to not kill the battery.

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As it will never survive a stream. You need 
a capture card to output to a PC.

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That is... complete overkill.

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You can't... No... for the kind of money 
you spend on that, its not worth it for anybody, 
who just does a live stream for fun every 
now and then.

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Even if he is a tech nerd as me.

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Because of that, i got to admit, the Cam 
(Brio) is interesting to me. But then again, 
its not *that* important

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because - again - I believe, because i've 
seen how sharp the image of my cam can get 
on a day,

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that i simply need good light - that is the 
most important to me right now.

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I need brighter light and you did see it 
yourself:

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Let me show you again - just a sec.... Here.

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My current setup as is. I got one spot clamped 
to the microphone arm, the other one is leaned 
to the back of my keyboard.

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I told you the reason: It's broken and im 
to stingy to get a new one.

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With really good lights, really good LED 
lights, that have an effective diffusor on 
them, i could do about the same than with 
a soft box

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I'd get soft light to get rid of those lines 
all over my face. Those are a there and.... 
right?

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The thing is, those aren't half as bad on 
daylight, as daylight is much softer.

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And Like I said, i need brighter lights, 
to run the cam at a lower exposure time without 
having to add gain to the image.

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I need soft lights, i need daylight white 
lights.

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(i got confused here tried to correct myself 
tho there was nothing to be corrected actually)

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I've given you a demo on the differences, 
at least indirectly, when you were able to 
see, that in parts the image was way too 
orange.

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That is, if i used manual settings. The issue 
is: Right now, i had to tune down the white 
balance quite a lot, so it gives me a halfway 
natural light.

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Of course, as long as all lights were artificial, 
their white color doesn't matter as much, 
as you can always readjust them.

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The thing is: These lights cannot be readjusted. 
This is what you get. Some sort of warm-white-ish 
light.

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Of course, i could get myself daylight white 
bulbs for them, but do you know how expensive 
those are? I could never justify them.

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Especially not, knowing the live span of 
those things. They break pointlessly fast!

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And those companies wanted to tell me, they 
live longer than regular light bulbs?

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Another issue is: At daytime, i'm getting 
daylight coming through the window right 
next to me.

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Over there it gets dark. Let me show you:

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If i place my cam like this....

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(fumbling with a light) yea, thats about 
right...

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You get the following effect you'd also see 
at daytime. From one side, light hits me

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- this one right here - That would be the 
light coming from the outside.

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Without additional light, the effect i'd 
get would be something like this exaggerated 
example.