Two budget webcams. Let's find out which one's better
Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out budget webcams. This is the E-Meat C-950
It's a 1080P webcam, and as you can see, it's a pretty small little guy that just clips on the top of your display
And this is the Logitech C-270, which is a 720P webcam, and it all
clips on top. In fact, both of them are pretty neat the way they're designed. So you just
put this on the back of your laptop typically and adjust it the way you want. You can
adjust the camera forward and backward and get it to just the right angle. So that's
the Logitech. This is the Emeat and the same sort of idea, but the Emeat adds one
cool feature is that if you tilt it all the way back, this is what they call
their privacy mode and automatically the microphone and the camera will turn it
turn off, which is important because you might leave it plugged into your computer 24-7
just so it's ready when you're ready. So let me give you some specs, and then we're going to do a little shootout using Zoom
and I'm going to hook them both up simultaneously. We'll just be able to switch back and forth, and you'll be able to hear and see
to compare for yourself which one you think does a better job. So this is the E-Meet C-950
It's a 1080p 30 frame per second webcam. webcam with a 70 degree field of view. It has that privacy mode as I flipped it back. If I
tilted more this way, it'll work more normal. And it has two noise canceling microphones. So
it definitely is going to do a good job of picking up audio. Has a, I don't know, four foot
cable. And then there's a USBA plug on the end. And that's basically everything. Now, one thing
that E-Meet does is they also have an app called E-Meet Link, which is great because you can get to the
parameters of the camera and you can adjust them which turns out to be important Now by contrast this is the Logitech C270 It a 720P 30 frame per second HD webcam
So this one's giving us a little better resolution. But again, if you're using it for things like Zoom
not sure that that 720 to 1080 is a huge jump. Well, look, you'll see for yourself
Now, one big difference is this is a 55 degree field of view
Remember, this one's, 70 degrees. And what does that mean? It means if you imagine the camera, if it had a one degree
field of view, it would just see directly in front of it. But it doesn't. It actually sees around
So a 55 degree field of view is going to give you just about a quarter. So instead of it being
like that's 90 and that's 45, it's going to be like there. But then the E-mead is going to give you
a little wider angle. There's a little more it will pick up behind you. So that's worth noting. Now
Logitech also has a noise-reducing microphone, but it's only one mic. Does that matter
Hmm, we're not sure. We'll have to find out. And it, too, has the same length cable and a USBA plug on the bottom
So here are the boxes. Don't think we need them for this, so we will take them away
And instead, what I have is I have the latest Lenovo Yoga PC, super nice computer
And I'm using this plug-able USB expansion dock. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to plug this into the Lenovo
And then I'm going to plug both cameras into it because this gives me that USBA, which is the rectangle, to USBC, which is something that the yoga actually prefers
So we're going to switch it over. And then I'm going to come back in Zoom and we'll be able to see how this all switches around
So give me a second. The first camera I'm going to demonstrate is the EMEED webcam
And you can see it has a really clean, crisp image. There's a lot of detail there and the nuance on the skin tone. Pretty nice, actually
You also hearing the audio being picked up by that dual microphone system So sounds pretty good Now to be fair I did go into the Emeat link app and I just a tiny bit dialed down
the saturation because it felt like it was a little oversaturated. But one of the benefits is you have the option and the ability to do that
That's really great. Now, let me switch everything around and I'll give you a demonstration of the Logitech unit
Now, this is the Logitech unit, both the microphone picking up my voice and the camera
As I said, this is a 720p instead of a 1080P, but it's still a pretty darn nice image
One thing to notice is because it has a smaller field of view, I seem to be a little closer to the camera
The two of them are in exactly the same position. But you now can see how they compare and you can decide what do you think looks better
I think they're both really good solutions, but I think one has a slight edge
Let me jump back on my regular camera, and we can talk about that. Pretty interesting demo, actually
I think both cameras actually did really well. And you can see, even with 720P, Zoom HD does a really good job
I looked really good with both cameras. I feel like I sounded really good with both cameras
A little bit tricky getting the microphone to switch, but suffice to say, you could see both of the most
are really credible and more likely than not, both of them are a significant upgrade
from what you have right now with your built-in webcam. Now it turns out this Lenova has an excellent built-in camera
but it's also a really spendy laptop. So a lot of people, that's not what they got
So what I want to do is I want to just end it by talking about the price, but before we get there
two things. Number one, I mentioned about the emete camera and the ability to adjust the different
settings and levels, here's what that e-meat link app looks like. And you can see it pretty simple but it really helpful to be able to go and adjust the parameters if you have a special case or you need to tweak it a little bit easily done Now let talk about price But the second thing I want to do is I want to ask you
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so you know about my new content and we're connected. Sweet. Now, let's talk prices. This is the
E-Meet C-950 webcam with a 70-degree field of view and it is
2999 currently discounted down to 1799 at amazon.com that is a pretty wicked good deal for this camera if you ask me
and then the other contender here is the logitec c 270 720p 55 degree field of view camera and it also did a
really credible job it is 3999 currently discounted down to 2470 at amazon
So this one, 1799, this one 2470, they're within what, like $7 of each other
So they're pretty close. But I got to say the e-meat kind of wins
I think it did a better job with the video. I think the two microphones with the noise canceling definitely works well
And 1080p versus 720p, yeah, make your own decision. In both cases, you're going to look terrific on Zoom or hangouts or Skype or teams or
Blue jeans or, oh my gosh, there's a million different apps that could be using your video camera
And in both cases, really nice options. One of the things that really edges out the E-Meet for me is that that turns off the camera
and that's a really nice feature. So it's everything I got. I'll hope to catch you in my next video