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Fed up looking fuzzy, pixelated or overexposed in your video conferences? You'll love the new Anker PowerConf C300 1080p Webcam then! Compatible with Mac, Windows and Linux, it will instantly improve your appearance, even over the built-in Apple webcam, while giving you a lot more control over exposure, framing, zoom, and much more. Tech expert Dave Taylor runs the Anker through its paces with this hands-on demo and review.
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Improve all your web conferences with this webcam. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this this is the anchor power comp c300
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1080p webcam and you can see it's pretty small It's one of these little gizmos that just clips on to the screen of your Mac or PC or Linux machine
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Actually, it's pretty darn flexible and compatible. It is powered via USB C to USB C comes with a nice long cable and if you don't have USB C they have a
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USB-3 adapter for you old-school computer users and you can optionally put on there is a
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Little screen cover you can put on the device So when you're not using it, you can just cover up the camera
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Honestly, I just don't plug it it makes it a lot easier but I think that's why they don't have it on by default, but it is actually really easy to work with and
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The important thing is that anchor actually has some nice AI software on here, too
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So that it does a really nice job and unlike so many of these devices
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It offers one fantastic feature, which is the ability to adjust your field of view
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I will demonstrate that in a minute, but you can go from 115 degrees
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Which is pretty wide angle and giving you a lot of information to 90 degrees to 78 degrees
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Where it's pretty tightly just on you or whoever is in front of the camera really nice a very smart and quick
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Autofocus it has some tracking capabilities. I have not found those to be super great noise cancelling dual microphones
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Make it sound better low-light correction. It's zoom certified. In fact, let's hook it up to my Mac
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I'll show you the anchor software and then we'll jump into zoom for just a second and I'll show you how it compares
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To my default Mac webcam. We get things set up the software you need to work with the anchor webcam is
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Anchor work and it's easily downloaded for Mac or PC and you can see I'm using it right now
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And that's giving me the ability to go ahead and make changes to the device settings that actually affect anything else
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That's actually tapping that camera. I'll show you that in a second So for example, I am zoomed in as much as I can zoom out a little bit and you know
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Let's zoom out a little more and now I can get rid of that side and you can see it's me with a lot of brick
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Wall behind me. So maybe that's a little much. So let's go back and go back to 90 degrees
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That's a little better but there's more there's more you can change you can change your resolution
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If you have a lower bandwidth connection, you can step the camera back a little bit which can be helpful
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Change your frame rate. Obviously, you can do this sort of auto tracking. I
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Don't find it to be fantastic. But if I move over here
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See doesn't actually really do a whole lot It might be more
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Functional if I zoom in a lot and now let's see auto frame
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Now see I find the software isn't as great as the hardware
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but I got to say this webcam has a really really beautiful picture and
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Then you can also go here and this is another wonderful feature is you can tweak and modify
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Your sharpness your saturation the contrast ratio You can basically clean up the camera image to make it what you want it to be so that's really great now
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Let's jump into zoom for a second because if I go into zoom
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then of course you can go into zoom settings and in the settings you can choose video and
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Now this is really fun because now I'm gonna close this I'm looking at the video here and it's from the anchor power comp c300
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But watch what happens if I go in here and I change that resolution or change the angle I should say
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Then it changes in zoom too, or I could be like against a big brick wall, right
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So, how does that compare with my MacBook Pro built-in camera? Let's find out so
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This is the camera that's part of my MacBook Pro system and you can see it's more
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Contrasty it's a less attractive image makes me look more tired Like maybe I haven't slept for a couple of days. So yeah, thanks Apple. Let's go back to anchor
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Much better and while I'm at it, let's go ahead and zoom in a little bit. So this actually looks really good
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I'm ready for my zoom call which means let me switch around and get back on camera
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There you have it. I gotta say I really like the camera Hardware's terrific being able to zoom in and out is really terrific. It just does a really good job
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It's a crystal clear image the AI side of it. It helps with autofocus
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So it's focused and it tightly crisply focus, which is great. But the tracking software that's really hard
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I don't know whether it's because I have a brick wall behind me. So it's seeing like silhouettes of faces or something slightly creepy
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But Suffice to say it didn't really do much for me. So it goes
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I'll just have to make sure that I stay center frame But it's a big step up and even just with the lighting I have now without doing anything fancy
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You saw it gave me a more flattering appearance than the built-in webcam on my MacBook Pro
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Which I have used all you know, unfortunately probably too many times on web conferences
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So there's lots to like about this and as I said at the beginning it is Mac
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Windows and Linux friendly and I just want to say the hinge is really cool
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The way they did this is really neat because it actually is tight enough that you can put it at any angle you want
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And there's even a little Foot here that helps it go against the side of the screen. So here's a close-up of this on the screen, right
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But there's more you can do because this is so flexible One of the things you could do is you could place it on a table
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Maybe adjust it up a little bit, but now you can have a completely different angle instead of this being just here
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Maybe it's 10 feet behind me and I have this webcam for when I want to be right on screen
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And then I have this one that I switch to that gives a much bigger
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Vision, you know much bigger image so that I might be able to walk around imagine if I'm cooking
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I might have this image be one where it's me in the kitchen and I'm walking around and let me show you all the stuff
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I want to do and then I switch to this so we can get a little closer and talk about exactly what I'm doing
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super easy to work with Really really a great upgrade. You're gonna look better when you use this. There's no way around it. So
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We need to talk about the price but before we get to the price Let me ask if you could subscribe to my channel super easy a click or a tap on that little
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Subscribe button and boom we're connected and as I hope is obvious. I'm really honest in my reviews
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I'm not looking to make friends with these companies I'm looking to serve you the viewer and tell you the straight scoop so I can tell you the hardware of this is
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Really good the software probably needs another couple of revs before it's really ready and really gonna be something where you're gonna be super impressed
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with it, but Regardless, it's gonna be an improvement and who can you know who's gonna complain about that
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So how much is it this is? Close my computer. This is the anchor power comp c300 1080p webcam, and it's a hundred and twenty nine ninety nine
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But when I just looked on Amazon it was discounted substantially down to a hundred and three ninety nine at
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Amazon.com Definitely one to check out a solid upgrade for you and you know, the software might need a couple more revs
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But they're working on it. So there will be revs and it will be improvements and in the meantime, you're still gonna look better
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So definitely one to check out and with that I'll hope to catch you in my next
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