Opal C1 Webcam As Apple Webcam Replacement #SHORTS

Opal C1 Webcam As Apple Webcam Replacement #SHORTS

The Opal C1 webcam is being marketed as a replacement for the built-in Apple webcams, which were limited to 720p for a great many years. The newer MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and iMac have a 1080p webcam. But the overall visual quality has always been meh.

Apple has to cut corners somewhere to keep their products thinner year after year.

The 4K visual quality of the Opal C1 rivals that of a DSLR camera. Jon Prosser, host of Front Page Tech, replaced his Sony DSLR camera with the Opal C1 for his Genius Bar Podcast. No one noticed the difference between the two.

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Should You STILL BUY The Opal C1 Webcam?

Should You STILL BUY The Opal C1 Webcam?

While watching a recent episode of Front Page Tech, I paid attention to the two-minute sponsorship spot. The Opal C1 webcam for the Apple Macintosh is now available for order. If that webcam looked familiar, Casey Neistat gushed about its DSLR video quality on Twitter in January 2022.

A year-and-a-half later, should you still buy the Opal C1 webcam?

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THE TRUTH About 4K Webcams for Virtual Meetings

Casey Neistat tweeted out about the Opal C1 webcam. The first professional webcam that has better 4K video quality than a DSLR camera. Casey asked in his tweet, “Why hasn’t anyone done this yet? As I replied in my own tweet, most virtual meeting software uses only 720p video. The truth about 4K webcams for everyone else is that they add nothing to virtual meetings.

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