[00:00] 4K webcams have become insanely good over the past&nbsp; years. I still remember my first webcam comparison&nbsp;&nbsp; video from 3 years ago, and the quality you could&nbsp; get back then compared to right now for the same&nbsp;&nbsp; price is worlds apart. That’s why I decided&nbsp; to test six very popular 4K webcams ranging&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:18] from about $100 to $120 when sales are going on,&nbsp; to about $300 for this premium beast. I am sure&nbsp;&nbsp; that one of these will be perfect for you. These&nbsp; two are sponsored by OBSBOT, but just as always, I&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:30] test them in exactly the same way. I even stepped&nbsp; up my testing game, and you will very accurately&nbsp;&nbsp; be able to compare all of these webcams, starting&nbsp; with the first one, which is the Elgato Facecam&nbsp;&nbsp; Pro. This is a 4K webcam. It offers 4K 30fps or&nbsp; 1080p 60. It doesn’t feel as heavy as it looks,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[00:48] but it felt pretty sturdy. The mount is very&nbsp; versatile; you can pan or tilt, and in general,&nbsp;&nbsp; all necessary movements are possible. Now, it&nbsp; does have a manual shutter, so that’s very useful.&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:00] It does feel pretty cheap and wonky, but it’s&nbsp; there, so can’t complain too much. And overall,&nbsp;&nbsp; what came in the box is very simple: the&nbsp; webcam, a detachable cable, and the manual. &nbsp; Okay, I’ve been playing around with these settings&nbsp; for a while, so I have two LED panels shining on&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:15] me and then a floodlight in the back—actually,&nbsp; two floodlights, but one is on that side,&nbsp;&nbsp; the other one is on the other side—and it’s as&nbsp; close to the reference image as I can get it in&nbsp;&nbsp; the software. Currently, the biggest thing I&nbsp; had to change is the saturation. Right here,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:28] I boosted this quite a lot. Sometimes boosting&nbsp; the saturation might break some other parts—for&nbsp;&nbsp; example, my t-shirt might look blown out, or&nbsp; the lips might look super red or super pink—but&nbsp;&nbsp; it looks good. Also, when I come closer, I pretty&nbsp; much like it right now. Like, I was a bit hesitant&nbsp;&nbsp;
[01:44] because at the start, I didn’t really like the&nbsp; webcam. I plugged it in, I was like, “Oh my God,&nbsp;&nbsp; that’s a very low-saturation, grayish-looking,&nbsp; pretty bad quality webcam.” But now I do like&nbsp;&nbsp; the image, and I’m curious to see how it compares&nbsp; to other webcams. Now, I was indeed very happy&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:00] with the colors, but while testing, I didn’t&nbsp; realize how much sharper the other webcams&nbsp;&nbsp; would look. We will test everything in depth in&nbsp; the coming tests, so you’ll definitely see. &nbsp; Next is the OBSBOT Meet 2. It comes in three&nbsp; colors; I have the space gray one. I have&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:16] reviewed this webcam in the past already, but&nbsp; since I’m doing way more in-depth testing now,&nbsp;&nbsp; I was really curious to see how it would compare&nbsp; to all the other ones. People in general love this&nbsp;&nbsp; webcam; they are always very positive about it in&nbsp; the comments. It’s 4K 30 FPS, 1080p 60. Since it&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:32] magnetically connects to the mount, you can film&nbsp; horizontal but also vertical for TikTok and stuff,&nbsp;&nbsp; and I like this webcam a lot, partly because it&nbsp; looks like a tiny block of production equipment.&nbsp;&nbsp; But we’ll have to put it to the test. And I&nbsp; mean, look at the result here; this webcam&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:47] is insane. I tested the webcam before already&nbsp; in comparison videos, but never as in-depth as&nbsp;&nbsp; I’m doing right now with all webcams. But look&nbsp; at how great the skin color is, how great the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[02:59] blue in the background is. The webcam does come&nbsp; with software; it’s called OBSBOT Center, and I&nbsp;&nbsp; basically went to image right here, I enabled HDR,&nbsp; then I set it to autofocus. I didn’t touch that.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then the exposure—this was set to auto exposure,&nbsp; so I turned it off. I set a shutter speed to&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:16] 1/60. In general with video, if you’re using 30&nbsp; FPS, you want to double your FPS, and that’s the&nbsp;&nbsp; perfect shutter speed, so I did that. And then&nbsp; I adjusted the ISO to 500. Look at this webcam;&nbsp;&nbsp; this is absolutely crazy. Then the white balance,&nbsp; it was set on auto, so I disabled it. I set the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:33] color temperature to 5500K because the two LED&nbsp; lights shining on my face are both 5500K. And&nbsp;&nbsp; then image—these are your general adjustments.&nbsp; Everything is 50 by default, so I added 10&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:45] contrast, three saturation, and that’s it. So far,&nbsp; this is probably the best 4K webcam I’ve tried.&nbsp;&nbsp; It’s crazy that it comes at around $130. The&nbsp; software was also easy to install; it was quick&nbsp;&nbsp;
[03:57] to make the adjustments, so so far, I love it. Next, we have a very similar webcam, the Insta360&nbsp;&nbsp; Link 2C. It is also 4K 30fps or 1080p 60. The&nbsp; packaging felt very premium, but the webcam itself&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:12] looks way heavier than it actually feels. It also&nbsp; has a manual shutter, just like the Elgato Facecam&nbsp;&nbsp; Pro, and it also magnetically connects to the&nbsp; mount. However, you can’t turn it vertically like&nbsp;&nbsp; the OBSBOT Meet 2. This might not be a dealbreaker&nbsp; for you, but for some people, it could be very&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:28] handy. Okay, so I’ve done what I always do when I&nbsp; test these webcams: I’ve installed the software,&nbsp;&nbsp; and I’ve tweaked the settings a bit. And what&nbsp; I noticed with the Insta360 Link 2C is that as&nbsp;&nbsp; soon as I connected it to the PC, it looked very&nbsp; good. I made a few tweaks. I adjusted the white&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:44] balance to manual because with the blue light&nbsp; in the background, usually it’s very hard for a&nbsp;&nbsp; webcam or a camera to accurately adjust the white&nbsp; balance because this is what it should focus on,&nbsp;&nbsp; and all the rest is going to be way too blue. So&nbsp; it always tries to adjust a bit, and besides that,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[04:59] I boosted the saturation a bit, and then I&nbsp; did turn on HDR. And I feel like turning on&nbsp;&nbsp; HDR limits my options. I feel like there’s some&nbsp; auto-adjusting going on as soon as I turn on HDR.&nbsp;&nbsp; Like, without HDR, it looks like there’s some&nbsp; artificial sharpening going on that’s not there&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:14] when I turn on HDR. Okay, I just turned it on;&nbsp; it’s going to readjust a bit again. Let’s make it&nbsp;&nbsp; focus here, focus on my face. Overall, I like it&nbsp; more with HDR turned on, but this looks amazing,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:26] and it looked like this from the start.&nbsp; It’s definitely a high-quality webcam. &nbsp; Next, we have the OBSBOT Tiny 2 Lite. This is&nbsp; an auto-tracking PTZ camera, which means pan,&nbsp;&nbsp; tilt, zoom, and that basically means that it&nbsp; can track you and it can move in any direction,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:41] zoom in and out to reframe you, to track you, and&nbsp; basically always perfectly frame you in the middle&nbsp;&nbsp; of the shot. It is also 4K 30fps, 1080p 60. All&nbsp; these webcams have those specs; that’s why we’re&nbsp;&nbsp;
[05:53] comparing them. The stand is very simple because&nbsp; it doesn’t need to allow lots of movement since&nbsp;&nbsp; the camera can move on its own. The USB cable&nbsp; is detachable, and there’s a threaded mount on&nbsp;&nbsp; the bottom in case you want to attach it to a&nbsp; desk stand. Okay, so I just set up the webcam,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:09] the OBSBOT Tiny 2 Lite. I installed the software,&nbsp; I adjusted all the color and the brightness&nbsp;&nbsp; settings, and it looks amazing. It looks very&nbsp; vibrant, just like the OBSBOT Meet 2. I was very&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:21] surprised with the quality of that webcam,&nbsp; and actually, this one came first. I tested&nbsp;&nbsp; it in the past already. I usually go for manual&nbsp; exposure, especially with RGB in the background,&nbsp;&nbsp; same with white balance. And as you can see, the&nbsp; webcam is tracking me. That’s the great thing&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:36] about this one. The OBSBOT Meet 2 looked amazing,&nbsp; but this one has the same image quality; however,&nbsp;&nbsp; it is physically auto-tracking, so it will&nbsp; completely follow you everywhere you move. And&nbsp;&nbsp; it’s honestly a great feeling that no matter how&nbsp; you move, the webcam will always keep you in the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[06:52] frame. And it’s also very snappy, like it really&nbsp; follows you. It doesn’t lose you or start lagging&nbsp;&nbsp; or anything like that. If you’re gaming and you’re&nbsp; slowly moving sideways and downwards and stuff,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:05] it will just keep you in the frame. You can be&nbsp; chilling with your stream, no matter how you want,&nbsp;&nbsp; and it will always just make sure you look good,&nbsp; make sure you’re in the frame. It’s a great thing,&nbsp;&nbsp; and I think you can say for yourself,&nbsp; it looks very good for a webcam. &nbsp;
[07:21] Next, we have the Razer Kiyo Pro Ultra. This is a&nbsp; crazy webcam which, to be honest, should be called&nbsp;&nbsp; a camera instead, and it was super interesting&nbsp; testing this. It is able to send uncompressed&nbsp;&nbsp; 4K quality to your PC, but optionally, it also&nbsp; allows you to choose a custom compression in&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:38] the software. It is a beefy webcam, super heavy,&nbsp; super solid, and you can just feel that this is&nbsp;&nbsp; a very premium product. Since it has a very large&nbsp; sensor, it captures a lot of light. You have a lot&nbsp;&nbsp; of background blur, and you will see that in the&nbsp; testing clips. I was astonished with the quality&nbsp;&nbsp;
[07:54] of this webcam, but it did have one major flaw&nbsp; for me. Okay, so I’ve been testing around with the&nbsp;&nbsp; Razer Kiyo Pro Ultra—that’s a long name—and this&nbsp; right here is about the best I can get. I changed&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:06] a lot in the software. Now, one major thing is&nbsp; that I disabled HDR. Usually, when it’s available&nbsp;&nbsp; with webcams, I enable it, and it kind of makes&nbsp; my face look well-exposed and in the background&nbsp;&nbsp; as well. And for example, right here, you see like&nbsp; a bit too much light on my forehead. If I enable&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:22] HDR, that’s gone, but I was never able to get an&nbsp; image that’s close to the one on the right because&nbsp;&nbsp; my face was always too bright with HDR. Now I&nbsp; have lens distortion compensation enabled, and&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:34] if you look at the light here, it is straight now.&nbsp; If I turn this off, I have a bigger field of view,&nbsp;&nbsp; but it’s kind of distorted, indeed, like we see&nbsp; on the bottom. Now there’s an 82° field of view.&nbsp;&nbsp; If I enable this again, we go to 72.5°. So it’s&nbsp; up to you if you want a very wide field of view,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[08:52] but then you will have distortion around the&nbsp; edges, or if you want the more narrow one and&nbsp;&nbsp; for it to look a bit better. In general, I will&nbsp; save the settings on the bottom, and that is&nbsp;&nbsp; because you have to turn off the preview in order&nbsp; to use it in OBS Studio. I will try to activate it&nbsp;&nbsp;
[09:06] again now; it will work, and you cannot adjust the&nbsp; settings in the software if it’s linked to OBS.&nbsp;&nbsp; But the webcam looks really nice. The autofocus,&nbsp; I will have to test this because so far, I’m not&nbsp;&nbsp; a big fan of it. I’ve seen some focus hunting&nbsp; and focus breathing, and when stuff happens,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[09:22] especially if you move, like the focus—like now&nbsp; it’s pretty good, but I saw some hunting. We’ll&nbsp;&nbsp; have to check that out, but it looks very, very&nbsp; good like this, very crisp, very professional.&nbsp;&nbsp; There’s natural background blur. It’s a very&nbsp; pricey webcam; it’s very close to DSLR quality,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[09:38] but also pricing. So the question with this&nbsp; webcam is if it’s that good that it will replace&nbsp;&nbsp; a secondhand or budget real DSLR camera. Next, we have the Insta360 Link 2. This one,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[09:52] just like with the OBSBOT Tiny 2 Lite, is the&nbsp; auto-tracking version of the static one, in this&nbsp;&nbsp; case being the Insta360 Link 2C, which we tested&nbsp; before. I will go over this one more quickly&nbsp;&nbsp; since you’ve seen the software and the quality and&nbsp; stuff with the other webcam. It is very similar,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[10:08] but I do quickly want to show you what it offers,&nbsp; and then after that, we will test all of these&nbsp;&nbsp; webcams with standardized tests, which means you&nbsp; will be able to effectively compare all of them&nbsp;&nbsp; and see which one is your actual favorite. Okay,&nbsp; so this is the first working image of the Insta360&nbsp;&nbsp;
[10:23] Link 2. I set a white balance to what my two&nbsp; key lights are. I boosted the saturation a bit,&nbsp;&nbsp; but I’m wondering if it was actually too much,&nbsp; and that’s it. Now it looks extremely similar,&nbsp;&nbsp; if not identical, to the Insta360 Link 2C; that’s&nbsp; the non-gimbal version of this webcam. I can move&nbsp;&nbsp;
[10:39] it manually now, but I haven’t set up the tracking&nbsp; yet. I think if I do this, it will start tracking&nbsp;&nbsp; me, but I’m not sure. It might be—ah, yes. So&nbsp; this is the auto-tracking version. Obviously,&nbsp;&nbsp; you also have a static version that’s&nbsp; a bit cheaper and that doesn’t have the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[10:52] auto-tracking features if you don’t need it. So now this is where things get very interesting.&nbsp;&nbsp; I did several tests with each of the webcams&nbsp; one by one, and for example, this here is the&nbsp;&nbsp; first one where I compared all webcams in the same&nbsp; lighting conditions without RGB in the background,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[11:07] and I try to match the colors as close as possible&nbsp; so you can very effectively compare them. First of&nbsp;&nbsp; all, we can see that the Elgato Facecam Pro is not&nbsp; at all up to par with the other webcams. It looks&nbsp;&nbsp; less sharp, almost like a 1080p webcam compared&nbsp; to these other 4K beasts. Now it is 4K, don’t&nbsp;&nbsp;
[11:24] get me wrong, but I really don’t know why I wasn’t&nbsp; able to make this look as good as the other ones.&nbsp;&nbsp; At first, I thought I had set this to 1080p, but&nbsp; then I checked, and it was 4K because when I made&nbsp;&nbsp; it 1080p, it looked even worse. I might have to&nbsp; test it again in the future. I hope I did nothing&nbsp;&nbsp;
[11:38] wrong, but let’s compare the other webcams.&nbsp; The OBSBOT Meet 2 in comparison looked great,&nbsp;&nbsp; to be honest, and I’m a bit torn when it comes to&nbsp; the competitor, the Insta360 Link 2C. Pay close&nbsp;&nbsp; attention right now to my face around the eye area&nbsp; as I will switch to the Insta360 webcam. Okay,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[11:55] this here is the Insta360 Link 2C. At first&nbsp; sight, you would say that it’s sharper,&nbsp;&nbsp; and it is, but it kind of looks like artificial&nbsp; sharpening. I once reviewed a $6 Wish.com webcam,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[12:07] and this had crazy artificial sharpening, and&nbsp; of course, it doesn’t look cheap like this. The&nbsp;&nbsp; Insta360 is definitely a good webcam, but the type&nbsp; of sharpening is comparable, and I don’t really&nbsp;&nbsp; like this. Next in line were the two auto-tracking&nbsp; webcams from OBSBOT and Insta360. They look very&nbsp;&nbsp;
[12:25] similar to their non-auto-tracking versions, so I&nbsp; won’t keep comparing them in depth going forward.&nbsp;&nbsp; And then we had the Razer Kiyo Pro Ultra. Keep&nbsp; in mind, though, that this webcam costs $300,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[12:38] which compared to the other webcams is about&nbsp; double the price or even more, but it does,&nbsp;&nbsp; however, look amazing. Now I’m not sure how&nbsp; clearly you notice this during the testing,&nbsp;&nbsp; but the autofocus is miles apart from the other&nbsp; webcams, and not really in a good way. This webcam&nbsp;&nbsp;
[12:54] has crazy slow autofocus; however, as I may have&nbsp; mentioned before, it is extremely accurate. &nbsp; Now what I will show you next is an autofocus&nbsp; testing clip for each webcam back-to-back so&nbsp;&nbsp; you can compare all of them. In general, I felt&nbsp; like all the webcams did very well, and none of&nbsp;&nbsp;
[13:10] them will make you worried in terms of being in&nbsp; focus. And this is also a great opportunity for&nbsp;&nbsp; you to compare the sharpness of the OBSBOT versus&nbsp; the Insta360. Do you like the more natural look of&nbsp;&nbsp; the OBSBOT webcams, or do you like the artificial&nbsp; sharpening of the Insta360 ones? I kind of like&nbsp;&nbsp;
[13:27] the natural look more because you can also add&nbsp; sharpening yourself afterwards with OBS filters&nbsp;&nbsp; or in the webcam software. So I like to have&nbsp; the natural look and then increase it myself if&nbsp;&nbsp; I want to, but this will 100% depend on people’s&nbsp; preferences. In general, all these webcams here&nbsp;&nbsp;
[13:43] are quality devices, and that means that all of&nbsp; them can be adjusted in terms of color to make it&nbsp;&nbsp; look like you want. They will keep you in focus,&nbsp; and they are good investments for your streaming&nbsp;&nbsp; or content creation setups, besides the Elgato&nbsp; Facecam Pro, of course. I’m really not sure what&nbsp;&nbsp;
[13:58] went wrong with that one. And once again, don’t&nbsp; look too negatively at the slow focusing of the&nbsp;&nbsp; Razer Kiyo Pro Ultra because if you look&nbsp; at this clip, once it focuses, it is laser&nbsp;&nbsp; sharp. So it will really depend on what you’re&nbsp; looking for and how you will be using it. &nbsp;
[14:13] Now, if you’re still confused about which webcam&nbsp; you like the most, the following test usually&nbsp;&nbsp; gives you some kind of preference since you will&nbsp; be able to see differences in color on the remote&nbsp;&nbsp; as well as the sharpness of the remote itself, the&nbsp; autofocus, the depth of field in the background&nbsp;&nbsp;
[14:28] when the remote comes close, the noise in the&nbsp; background in darker areas, etc. When making and&nbsp;&nbsp; editing these test clips, I always try to make&nbsp; the colors and the exposure of all webcams look&nbsp;&nbsp; as similar as possible. I don’t do this to fake&nbsp; how colorful they look or anything like that. I&nbsp;&nbsp;
[14:44] do it because it’s very hard to perfectly adjust&nbsp; the colors of each webcam while testing and make&nbsp;&nbsp; them all look very similar. So while editing,&nbsp; it’s easier to adjust the white balance a bit,&nbsp;&nbsp; adjust the exposure a bit, and these are all&nbsp; things you can manually do yourself as well in&nbsp;&nbsp;
[14:59] OBS or in your webcam software. I’m not doing&nbsp; it to make them look better than usual; I’m&nbsp;&nbsp; just trying to make everything look as similar as&nbsp; possible in order to effectively compare them. &nbsp; Here’s a quick compilation of the microphone&nbsp; quality of all six webcams. This is a test of the&nbsp;&nbsp;
[15:13] microphone of the Elgato Facecam Pro. Okay, now&nbsp; when it comes to the microphone of this webcam.&nbsp;&nbsp; Okay, now I’ve listened to the microphone of&nbsp; this webcam, and I can’t hear it right now,&nbsp;&nbsp; but if you’re gaming, streaming, creating content,&nbsp; you’ll be going for a microphone like this. Okay,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[15:29] then the microphone of the Insta360 Link 2, and&nbsp; the microphone quality is definitely usable. Now,&nbsp;&nbsp; just like with all webcams, I’m testing them&nbsp; for streaming, gaming, content creation. So in&nbsp;&nbsp; this comparison, these were my three favorites.&nbsp; The Razer Kiyo Pro Ultra looked amazing. It is&nbsp;&nbsp;
[15:46] it does have pretty much the same quality&nbsp; as a 4K camera, which is going to be more&nbsp;&nbsp; expensive. So if the fact that the autofocus of&nbsp; it isn’t super quick and you think you will be&nbsp;&nbsp;
[15:59] setting the same range from your webcam anyway, it&nbsp; is actually a viable option, especially if there&nbsp;&nbsp; would be some kind of discount. However, you&nbsp; really have to be asking yourself if spending&nbsp;&nbsp; around $130 for this one compared to $300 for&nbsp; this one is worth the difference in looks. For me,&nbsp;&nbsp;
[16:15] if I would be looking for something for streaming&nbsp; but also content creation, then this one wouldn’t&nbsp;&nbsp; really be part of my options because I would want&nbsp; the camera to do some other content creation as&nbsp;&nbsp; well. And if it’s just for streaming, then&nbsp; I wouldn’t pay almost three times as much&nbsp;&nbsp;
[16:29] for this one. I would be super happy with the 4K&nbsp; nice quality of the OBSBOT Meet 2. And of course,&nbsp;&nbsp; if this quality is good enough for you, but&nbsp; you’re moving a lot or you want to do kitchen&nbsp;&nbsp; streams or something like that where the webcam&nbsp; is following you around the room, then the OBSBOT&nbsp;&nbsp;
[16:43] Tiny 2 Lite is also an amazing option. Thank you so much for watching. The links&nbsp;&nbsp; to all of these webcams are in the description.&nbsp; There is a discount code for the OBSBOT webcams;&nbsp;&nbsp; it only works on their website. It will&nbsp; also be in the description. Thank you so&nbsp;&nbsp;
[16:57] much for watching, and I hope I will see&nbsp; you in my next video. Have a nice day.