From the course: Improved Video Conferencing with Digital Cameras

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Built-in webcams are for convenience, not quality

Built-in webcams are for convenience, not quality

From the course: Improved Video Conferencing with Digital Cameras

Start my 1-month free trial

Built-in webcams are for convenience, not quality

“

- [Instructor] When I go online for a video conference call I want to present the best version of me. And I feel like I can do that better with my digital camera. It gives me all sorts of controls that I really like and that's what we're looking at right now. These images are Webcam images captured with my Olympus Pen-F it's a Micro Four Thirds Camera. I have a 17 millimeter F1.8 lens on there. So I have the right field of view and I have good color. You see that neutral background is actually neutral it's nice and gray, but my skin tone look nice. I'm relatively sharp here, but the background is nice and soft and it doesn't cover too much area. So I'm in the frame. I'm right there. Now, this is much different than when I use the built-in FaceTime camera on my Mac. And we're looking at a shot captured with that. Now this is the same lighting, same everything, same scene all I did was changed the camera. And you can see…

Contents