answers to poor camera quality?

[Karl Auer]

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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