answers to poor camera quality?

[Bret Busby]

On 03/09/2020, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-09-03 at 16:57 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, den 03.09.2020, 22:16 +1000 schrieb Karl Auer:
>> > So my question to you or anyone else: What's a good external camera
>> > that works well with Linux and v4l2?
>> if you want to actually invest (beacuse you have daily video
>> conferences and whatot), i dont think there is anything better than
>> the logitech BRIO currently. it allows zooming/resolution changes,
>> focus/aperture adjustments, can go up to 4k and comes with a builtin
>> stereo mic ...
>>
>> ...but it has its price ...
>
> Ouch, it certainly does.
>
>> beyond that i guess any 720p and upwards USB camera is just fine, the
>> majority of them should be supported by the uvcvideo driver and
>> should just work OOTB.
>
> ... except that this is what got us here. The camera in my laptop is
> "any 720p USB camera", and it doesn't work (well) OOTB. Hence my
> request for someone to recommend one that is *known* to work well with
> Linux...
>
>> ... and if you want something really exotic:
>>
>> https://ograblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/
>
> Cool :-)
>
> Regards, K.
>
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> Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)
> http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer
>

Logitech C270 ?

78AUD in Australia

720p video

Amazon Australia and Officeworks have them advertised for that price,
and Harvey Norman have the advertised (I do not know for what price).

My previous experience (I haven't made videocalls since about 2013),
was that Logitech USB cameras worked well with Linux.


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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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