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网络摄像头为什么还不够好
Webcams aren't good enough
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这篇文章分析了为什么网络摄像头多年来画质停滞不前：厂商缺乏创新动力、市场被低价和高端两极分化，而手机摄像头却突飞猛进。页面来自 Reincubate（Camo 应用的开发商），也顺带介绍了用手机当网络摄像头的替代方案。
为什么经久不衰：远程办公普及后视频通话画质成为日常痛点，而摄像头市场十年无实质进步，这篇分析解释了原因并给出实用替代方案，至今仍有参考价值。
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摄像头行业停滞的根源是硬件创业门槛吓退了创业者和投资人，而非市场太小
我是 Lumina 的联合创始人，我们在做一款现代网络摄像头来解决这些问题。家用办公设备整个领域都缺乏创新，摄像头尤其糟糕——十年前的 Logitech C920 至今仍是畅销品，就好比苹果在 iPhone 4S 之后不再发新机却一直卖到现在。我不认同“市场太小”的说法，卖摄像头的毛利足以撑起一家十亿美元公司；真正的原因是硬件被创业者和投资人视为太难。另外体积不是关键，iPhone 证明了小传感器加好软件也能出好画质，我们大部分工程投入都在软件层。
rlei查看英文原文
I'm the cofounder at Lumina - we're building a modern webcam designed to solve some of these problems. There's really been a lack of innovation in the entire home office space, with the webcam being particularly bad. It sucks that a decade-old product (Logitech C920) is still the bestselling product today -- that would be like if Apple stopped releasing new phones after the iPhone 4S (launched 2012), and it remained the bestselling phone through now. A few thoughts to add to the article: - On why webcams aren't seeing innovation, I'd disagree that the market is too small. There's enough gross margin to produce a $B company just by selling webcams [0], especially if you can actually get customers excited about the product. - A big reason there hasn't been innovation is that the space doesn't attract entrepreneurs (because hardware is viewed as hard) or investors (because hardware is viewed as hard). - Size isn't everything. As the iPhone shows, you can get very good image quality from a tiny sensor and lens if you have the right tech supporting it. (At Lumina, most of our eng effort is on the software layer) I would've loved to see Lumina in his comparison. We launched a few months ago and are seeing many reviewers prefer us over the Brio (Logitech's flaghip) [1]. Personally, I'd guess we're 60% of where we can be in terms of quality and think we can achieve a quality level between an iPhone and a DSLR, hopefully closer to the latter. [0] https://s1.q4cdn.com/104539020/files/doc_financials/2022/q4/Logitech-full-year-Q4-FY22-press-release-FINAL.pdf [1] https://www.windowscentral.com/lumina-ai-webcam-review
与其换设备，不如先改善光线——懂点摄影常识比好摄像头更重要
几百年来画家和摄影师都偏爱朝北的窗户，因为那能提供中性、均匀的光线。我的家庭办公室就特意选了有朝北窗户的房间，用 Logitech C920，很多人夸我的视频画面好。其实不是 C920 有多出色，而是懂一点摄影知识就能大幅改善画面。
logifail查看英文原文
There is a reason that for hundreds of years painters and (later) photographers have preferred working in spaces with North-facing windows[0], and that is because it's a simple way of ensuring neutral, even light. My home office is (by design) in a room with one North-facing window. I use a Logitech C920. Many people have told me how good my webcam feed is. I don't think it's that the C920 is particularly brilliant, it's that if you know even a little about photography, you can do an awful lot to help ensure a good picture. [0] assuming they were in the Northern Hemisphere, of course
手机当摄像头是可行方案，苹果也即将推出官方的 Continuity Camera
可以用 Reincubate 的 Camo 应用把手机摄像头当网络摄像头（需要有线连接），也可以用 OBS 加虚拟摄像头插件接入任何设备。但这些方案在 Safari 或 FaceTime 里往往不奏效。苹果即将在新版 macOS/iOS 中推出“开箱即用”的方案，iPhone 贴在 Mac 背后就能无线当摄像头用（与 Belkin 合作支架）。相比画质，我更在意音质。
navanchauhan查看英文原文
You can use you phone's camera as a webcam with Reincubate's Camo App. This required a wired connection iirc. You can also use OBS Studio along with a virtual camera plugin to use any device which can output directly to your computer. But most of these solutions do not work on Safari or FaceTime unless you manually modify the app. Now, Apple is going to soon introduce their "It Just Works" solution with the next release of macOS and iOS. You will be able to use your iPhone's camera as a webcam wirelessly with your Mac by just sticking your phone on the back (Apple is partnering with Belkin[0] for this stand) [1] I personally don't care about the camera as much as I care about the sound quality. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/6/23156834/apple-iphone-webcam-mac-continuity-camera-macos-wwdc [1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10018/
Camo 稳定好用，好的通话画质能显著提升个人形象
我每天花大量时间视频通话，试过 Epoccam 但 bug 多、在 Zoom 或 Slack 里时好时坏，折腾 OBS 又费时还让风扇狂转。Camo 用了三个月非常稳定可靠。视频通话画质好，就像见面前穿干净衣服、洗过澡一样——不做也能过，但稍微提升一下会给人好得多的印象。Camo 还会自动给 Slack 之类的软件打补丁以支持虚拟摄像头。
krrrh查看英文原文
I spend a lot of time on video calls every day, and wanted to take advantage of my iPhone camera. I had tried Epoccam and it was buggy, and broke between releases of Zoom or didn’t work in Slack calls. Screwing around with OBS was time consuming and pinned my fans. Reincubate Camo has been a pleasure to use over the last 3 months, and has never let me down. Having good image quality on video calls is on par with wearing a clean shirt or showering before in person meetings. You can get by without it, but you make a much better impression if you step your game up a little bit. One big plus of Camo is that it will also patch software like Slack so that it works with virtual cameras at all.
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