The Elgato Facecam is large and its plastic case feels a little cheap for the price, but its ability to tilt and swivel with almost complete freedom makes up for this a little. Still, I want to take a brief aside to compare it to the Logitech C920, a popular $70 1080p webcam that lacks those features but might be enough for casual users. Compared to the Logitech C920Īt $199, the Elgato Facecam is a premium device with premium features, like being able to record in 1080p 60 fps. That makes sense, as OBS shouldn’t override Camera Hub’s settings.

I was able to make live adjustments to the Elgato Facecam’s settings with the Camera Hub app while I had OBS open, and they carried over to my video input on OBS with no interference. On the plus side, this issue should not affect streaming software like OBS. “So 3rd party applications can’t change Facecam’s settings.” “We are looking into building a feature into the firmware that would allow for a sort of ‘settings lock,’” an Elgato representative told me over email. I could have used another app to record video, but at that point, the inconvenience of having to find a new recording method is already impacting the Elgato Facecam’s score. The Windows Camera app likes to make its own adjustments that override much of the changes made in Camera Hub, which means you lose out on that post-processing when shooting video with it. But you can’t shoot video from Camera Hub, which means I had to use the Windows Camera app for my footage. The default settings the software applies even tend to look pretty flattering, and these are the settings I’ve been using for the photos you’ve seen so far in this review, since you can take photos directly from the Camera Hub software.

The light from my window is also bouncing off half my face, which is new for one of these reviews.įortunately, much of these issues can be fixed by adjusting settings like saturation in the Camera Hub software that comes with the Elgato Facecam. Detail is high- maybe a little too high- but my face again looks much redder than I was seeing in the mirror. Maybe it’s a scuffed makeup job or a bad hair day or the weird angle due to shooting with the laptop, but I really do not like how I look on video recorded with the Elgato facecam.

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