Logitech C920

I've had my Logitech c920 for some thirteen years and it refuses to die so I can finally excuse getting an upgrade. Decent 1080p quality with low light boost and okay-ish white balance. Cheap and dependable though

[...] I've had the Logitech c920 for years, and it's been great, its going to act as a second camera. [...]

So the Logitech C920 is a webcam that has stood the test of time... [...] And I've been using it for 12+ years. [...]

I timestamp everything twice: once with the hardware clock (if available, like for the realsense camera) and once within my robot stack once it gets read from the device (using time.monotonicns()). [...] That being said, I might switch to a realsense for the static tabletop camera as well; the realsense wrist is clearly much more reliable than the cheap Logitech C920 that I currently use.

I'm glad you agree ;) Obviously in this case my setup is... overkill! But I think you can do a lot better than the average laptop camera with a Logitech C920 or Brio, and a Yeti Snowball or similar - I started there and worked my way up to where I am now, and was lucky enough to have been donated a rather nice DSLR along the way.

I'll add to the chorus of Logitech c920 users. It's reliable and reasonably priced for what you get, which were my criteria when I got it. Quality is fine for the occasional video chat, but caveat that I'm not sure if it would be my preferred choice for high-end use due to resolution limits.

i put the FCP up against a logitech c920 under decent lighting conditions and it lost. i felt like i was going insane so i got my partner, who knows nothing about any of this, to double check me and they assumed the C920's feed was obviously the more expensive one

I got my Logitech c920 a long time ago and it is CONSISTENT. You can likely find something cheaper, but you'll want high FPS over high resolution. 720p60fps is a good sweet spot.

The quite popular Logitech C920 webcam used to natively support H.264, but they dropped it in a model revision a while ago, because "nearly every computer offered in the market features a chipset that can efficiently encode high definition video at 1080p" [1]. I've used that very camera (without the accelerator) on an RPi 4 myself, and the only way to get acceptable quality was by using the Pi's H.264 hardware encoder. [1]

I think that it was the Logitech C920, which is still available. [...] IIRC the camera had an internal video encoder, because otherwise uncompressed FullHD video would not pass through USB 2.0. [...] Regarding the user interface, FreeBSD happened to include in the base system programs dedicated for using such a camera, so their use was very simple. [...] Besides the simpler interface, there was the stuttering problem on Linux, which was caused by the scheduling policies of the kernel. [...]

One reason to opt out even though everyone says “they already have your picture 1000 different ways” is that these cameras are not normal cameras, they are stereoscopic close-range cameras that take a 3D image of your face. That takes facial recognition accuracy up to 95%+, from 70% or less on a normal photo. Interesting, I'm fairly sure the cameras at one US airport I was (maybe Salt Lake City?) were just bog standard Logitech C920 like my previous webcam. Do you have more information on the cameras?

I use a Logitech C920 When I bought it years back, it was considered one of the better webcams for new streamers

I use a Logitech C920, I've had the same camera for nearly 6 years and it works great.

I've been looking into stuff for streaming and I'm tickled that the Logitech c920 I bought at the beginning of 2016 is still considered standard. Like I might spring for a StreamCam but if the thing I paid $50 in 2016'll do it, I might save myself the $150 and maybe get a desk light.

ideally would love to level up my audio and camera because I’ve been using the same BlueYeti mic + Logitech C920 webcam since 2020, but audio comes first 🙂‍↕️

The hyper X mic has been legit since I got it I think it’s $130 , The Logitech C920 is a pretty good 1080p WebCam that’s cheap, her lights you can literally go with anything that fits your desk

I've had good luck with the Logitech C920/C922 models with my MacBook Pro M1. Their 4K Pro webcam is probably equally good, I just haven't used one personally.

I use the Logitech C920 and I never looked back. Good quality, and not too expensive either!!! I haven't checked the pricing recently, but when I got it, it was $60 brand new. [...]

[...] I'm thinking of upgrading my old Logitech C920 webcam. [...] I've had the same one for awhile and ready to invest in an upgrade there soon.

I honestly didn't know that Nvidia had an OBS plugin. I've just been using the Nvidia broadcast app, It's my Logitech C920.

i use a webcam (logitech c920) so i can't help troubleshoot your exact issue, but have you tried adjusting your phone mount position? i have had much better results with the eye tracking specifically when my camera is mounted below my monitor looking up instead of clipped to the monitor looking down