answers to poor camera quality?

[Bret Busby]

On 03/09/2020, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> 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.
>
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
>

And, if you have not yet got a working webcam, you might be interested
in this one, for which I today received a marketing email message;

https://www.dicksmith.com.au/da/buy/kogan-full-hd-1080p-webcam/

Note:

"
1080p Full HD webcam with microphone
F23 Million high-definition image sensor
Driverless, simple plug-in
USB Video streaming
Supports Windows, Android and Linux
H.264 Advanced coding supports up to 2MP/30fps image resolution
Flexible clip base
"


-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............