Elgato Facecam MK.2 – Premium Full HD Webcam for Streaming, Gaming, Video Calls, Recording, HDR Enabled, Sony Sensor, PTZ Control – works with OBS, Zoom, Teams, and more, for PC/Mac

Very nice mid-level cam
I’ve been using a Logitech Streamcam since its release and have mostly liked it. It works great in good conditions, but shifted to a more enclosed area with very little natural lighting. And ever since doing that, I’ve had trouble with it washing out the picture if there’s artificial light, or being too dark if there’s not. I have a mostly Elgato lighting set up (2 key lights and a light strip) as well as a stream deck. The Logitech has never had good software, but that wasn’t a big deal until recently.Given the streamcam was good enough. I am teach undergraduate and graduate students almost entirely online, so I wasn’t needing a professional setup, just for meetings, zoom, and recording videos (using xsplit with a small video of me in the corner of a presentation). Recently, the lighting frustration bothered me more and more and I saw this Mk.2 release. I decided to try it out and see if it was an improvement.Yes, yes it was very much. While the lighting isn’t perfect, the overall quality is so much better I have no regrets at all about shifting to a similar range alternative. The low light works great, the overall image and recording is better, and the software is far and away more user friendly. I can control many functions through my stream deck, making for more dynamic adjustments on the fly in presentations, online live sessions, etc.Comes with a pretty thick 3.0 USB cable, but if you have a USB C slot in your computer you’re wanting to use you’ll need to buy your own. Which I did. But having only the 3.0 makes this useable for even older setups.

Excellent
This is a wonderful webcam. I’m coming from the Razer Kiyo Pro and the Facecam mk2 is so much nicer to use. The image quality seems to be comparable but the elagato has less motion blur and far superior software.I’ve had constant issues using razer’s streaming products that don’t seem to exist in the elgato ecosystem. I’m very happy that I was finally able to switch everything over.The camera is very easy to use and set up. It’s integration with obs is flawless and there is additional camera control software from elgato that you can use if you’d like. It is optional software and not required for use.This is probably the best bang for the buck webcam you can get right now. It’s my favorite so far at least.

MK. 2 Feels Basically Unusable
This is the most amount of money I’ve ever spent on a facecam, and I used a cheapo one before this in the $30-ish range. I use a lot of other elgato products, so I thought this would be a good fit. It’s been…. virtually unusable. Maybe I got defective product? It’s wild to me how happy these reviews seem in comparison to my experience. The cam was instantly darker and blurrier and weirdly colored compared to my cheap webcam. Everyone online said: well, get better lighting and mess with the settings in the elgato camera hub. So I tried. With blaring lights in my face (yes, I looked up the methods of lighting and did all the things like having a main light and a side light and putting them in a “Y” away from your face and having back lighting) it was still dark. And blurry. And the camera hub program was buggy as heck. I would change one thing and try to go back and suddenly the look would be too dark again, even if I put them back to the EXACT. SAME. NUMBERS. If I set things light enough, the colors would be muted and the graininess would be intense. If I lowered the graininess, it would look blurry and surreal. Taking off camera hub in general and just messing with filters slightly in OBS made it BETTER, but nowhere near NORMAL looking, when I thought the whole point of this camera quality was to make things look more natural in the first place. Because camera hub made things worse, I couldn’t even use the cool interactions I was promised through the stream deck buttons.Literally, my $30 cam looked better and clearer to people viewing my streams. On top of everything, shifting the cord in the back even a LITTLE made it turn off. After months of trying to get this to work (and only using it successfully about 10-15 times) the wiggle cord problem has become so bad that it will barely turn on. I’m just… so tired of messing with it. Maybe I got a defective one, I dunno, I have no baseline to work off of here. But an expensive webcam shouldn’t ask this much of you to actually look good out of the box and work well.

Przesłona !!! f/4.0 !!! to jest jakiś żart! Nawet przy mocnym oświetleniu kamera potrzebuje około 4x więcej światła niż zwykły Facecam F/2.4. Żadne matryce tego nie skompensują. Dramat !

Uso la Elgato Facecam solo per le mie live su Twitch e YouTube, e posso dire che è la prima webcam che mi ha davvero convinto. L’immagine è super nitida, fluida, con colori naturali, e soprattutto non ha lag. Si vede subito che è pensata per chi fa contenuti seri, non è la classica webcam da videoconferenze.Uno dei punti forti è che non ha messa a fuoco automatica ballerina: resta fissa, quindi niente sfocature improvvise durante la live se ti muovi un po’. E se usi luci come la Elgato Key Light, la qualità dell’immagine fa davvero un salto – sembra quasi una mirrorless.L’app Camera Hub ti dà un controllo totale: puoi regolare esposizione, ISO, contrasto, nitidezza… e tutto resta salvato direttamente nella cam, anche se la scolleghi. Una chicca che non ti fa perdere tempo ogni volta che accendi il PC.⸻✅ Cosa mi è piaciuto:• Qualità video eccellente per essere una webcam• Immagine fluida e stabile, senza autofocus fastidioso• Software semplice ma completo• Funziona benissimo anche con OBS e Streamlabs• Costruzione solida e look professionale❌ Cose da sapere:• Non ha microfono integrato (ma se streammi, tanto usi già un mic serio)• Serve una buona luce per rendere al massimo (tipo una Key Light)⸻🎥 In sintesiLa Facecam di Elgato è fatta apposta per chi vuole una webcam di livello alto per streaming. Nessun impazzimento con le impostazioni, immagine chiara e stabile, qualità superiore alla media. Se vuoi un aspetto più professionale in live, questa è la scelta giusta.

Really good, very satisfied 😊