Hi everyone! I apologize if this is the wrong community, but I couldn’t find a specific “Purchase Recommendations” community or something along those lines, so figured I’d ask here, since this seems to be fairly general. I’m in the market to buy a new webcam, as my current one isn’t amazing anymore. The connection to the cable is loose now and constantly disconnects at the slightest movement. The overall image quality is lacking, I think it’s 720p, but it feels like it changes all the time, and the frame rate is abysmal, fluctuating between 5 and 30 fps.
So, the main thing I’m looking for is a good overall build quality, especially in terms of the cable. I move my camera around semi-frequently so it’s annoying to fenangle with it all the time to get a good connection. (Side note, a longish cable is appreciated, but not required, I think the current length is around 5 ft, which is just about enough)
Some smaller considerations, I’d like it to be 1080p @ 60Hz, but those are pretty flexible requirements. I’ll happily settle for 720p or 30Hz, but 1080@60 is what I’d really like. Avoiding giant brands, (logitech, namely), is also a plus, but not a huge requirement.
Thank you so much for any/all suggestions!
Update: After a few people actually recommended logitech, I decided to look through their webcams and I found a few I liked. After a bit of searching I found a used logitech brio on facebook marketplace for $45, which is what I’ll be buying! Thank you again to everyone who took the time to make recommendations!
Almost everything is going to be USB or HDMI, and will virtually always have a replaceable cable, so you can get whatever length you want, within the spec of that protocol.
EDIT: If you really want a long cable, something that exceeds what copper can do, you can even get cables that will contain an optical transceiver and contain a fiber optic strand — I have a long USB cable like this. I assume that you don’t need that, though, if you have the computer and the webcam in more-or-less the same place.
Yep! I wrote this post right at the start of my search, so I didn’t realize a lot of cameras had detachable cables since mine definitely doesn’t!
Ah, gotcha. You’ll still have an option in that case — if you go to Amazon (or Monoprice…traditionally, they were my go-to spot for cables, but I haven’t tried pricing them against Amazon recently), they’ll also have male-to-female extension cables for USB and HDMI. I keep a USB extension cable in the car, as I normally want short cables, but every now and then, I want to put something further away.