The Swiss-American technology giant Logitech has been producing consumer electronics since the early ’80s and is well-known among gamers and gadget enthusiasts. For that reason, it’s important to have a dedicated webcam. Of course, you’ll also need a webcam if you have a desktop computer since the monitor doesn’t have one built in. But often, these webcams aren’t the best quality, making you fuzzy or out of focus. Logitech’s venerable C920 webcam lives on as the C920s, at a reduced price and with updated supporting software.Most laptops have a built-in webcam, so it’s easier to jump onto a Skype or Microsoft Teams meeting. I suppose it was inevitable that such a successful product could not simply be retired. A Windows version of Capture was released into beta in Q4-2018, with a Mac version planned for later this year. While no driver is required, Logitech now offers their Capture application, which I intend to examine on its own. The C920s will simply appear via the built-in UVC driver of your host OS. Happily, if you buy the C920s you won’t have to. I did this so long ago I can’t even remember how. It was trivially easy to hack Windows into treating the C920 as a generic UVC webcam.
The XSplit team found that the Logitech driver leaned hard on the CPU, which was a problem for gamers streaming their game play. That driver did not allow more than one camera to be used per computer. The old C920, while basically UVC compliant, by default installed a Logitech driver. The biggest change brought by the new model is the fact that it’s sold as UVC compliant. It’s informed by direct experience with Ultimatte and broadcast production switchers in a past life. Xsplit now offers VCam, which is their own freestanding background removal tool. Such a tool trades performance for the convenience of not having to setup and light a green screen. I tinkered with ChromaCam but found it less than useful. The C922x originally included a copy of Personify’s Chromacam. The major technical difference is the fact that the C922x can deliver 720p at 60 frames/second, which is potentially of interest to the game streaming crowd.įrom a bundling point of view the C920s gets the external privacy shutter, while the C922x comes with a 3 month trial of XSplit. It’s curious to compare the C920s to the C922x Pro Stream Webcam which was introduced around 18 months ago. In the past those concerned about privacy bought one of these after-market solutions. The “s” in the C920s name supposedly denotes stereo microphones, which should impact almost no-one.
What’s changed vs the older variant? Not much. This model is a minor respin of their older C920, which was and remains, the most popular webcam in the world, despite the introduction of several new models. Our friends a Logitech made some news recently.
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