I have a Logitech C920 and am looking to upgrade. Something suitable for streaming.
Some annoyances with the Logitech: sometimes autofocus fails and poor reproduction of blacks. Ex: Lack of detail when a black cat is on screen.
I already have a nice mic-- the webcam doesn’t need one.
C920 is good enough for meetings. I solved the focus problem using the traditional Linux method of writing of udev rule which launches a timer when it’s plugged in, which periodically launches a systemd service, which runs a bash script to make sure it self-corrects at least every 5 minutes.
❯ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/90-video4linux-webcam-config.rules KERNEL=="video[0-9]*", SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", ATTRS{idVendor}=="046d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0892", TAG+="systemd", RUN{program}="/bin/systemctl start video4linux-webcam-config@$env{MINOR}.timer" ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}="video4linux-webcam-config@$env{MINOR}.timer"❯ cat /etc/systemd/system/[email protected] # This file is managed by ansible-video4linux-webcam-config [Unit] Description=Periodically restart webcam config service [Timer] # Unit= defaults to service matching .timer name OnActiveSec=30 [Install] WantedBy=timers.target❯ cat /etc/systemd/system/[email protected] [Unit] Description=Set webcam configs [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "/usr/local/bin/video4linux-webcam-config.sh %I" [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target❯ cat /usr/local/bin/video4linux-webcam-config.sh #!/bin/bash if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then echo "Expected minor device number as sole argument" 1>&2 exit 1 fi v4l2-ctl -d $1 --set-ctrl focus_automatic_continuous=0 v4l2-ctl -d $1 --set-ctrl focus_absolute=0I’m using a C920 on Debian and I don’t have focus issues. I remember that once it was permanently stuck out of focus but unplugging and plugging again fixed the issue. Never had any other issues in years.