- Oh, today we're going to look at something with a massive Sony sensor. Well, not that massive, but it still is pretty big for a webcam. This here is a Dell Ultrasharp Webcam, yeah, that's it, and it looks awesome. It features a Sony DSLR sensor, which, even though you know,
it's not gonna be like this, compared to any other
webcam I'm pretty sure it's gonna blow it out of the water, so. Looking at the back here it says we have one over 2.8 inch large sensor, which is a difficult way to say that. Also .35 of an inch and 9 millimeters. Much prefer either of
those ways to say it. Magnets in the box, that's fancy. I guess it is a $200 webcam, so you can expect things to be fancy. It's just like a little tube. We have a USB-C to type A cable. We also have, looks like a little stand with a 1/4-20 thread on the bottom. This one here, that you attach to like the top of your monitor, that's kind of your standard webcam mount. A little quick start guide. Yup, plug it in, attach
it to your monitor, you're good to go. Wow, that is pretty big for a webcam. That's a pretty fine looking
piece of glass there. They do have a multi element design. So on a multi element design,
let's kind of look at this. You can have a problem that
when the light hits the sensor, if it doesn't hit it perpendicular, it looks bad because
the colors can change. So multi element is trying
to get all of the light that's going in to hit the sensor as perpendicular as possible. Here we have a couple
of cool other things. So they have a little proximity sensor. I don't know if you can quite
see that in there, it's dark. And I don't know which one's which, but there's a proximity sensor and Window's Hello facial recognition. So, in some laptops, like the XPS15, you have a combination IR and
normal camera sensor in there. And that can cause problems
where the IR sensor makes things look purpley
and weird colored. So that's why they have
basically two webcams in one, but one of them only
does the IR detection. The big selling point on this thing though is the large sensor. So Dell says that it's
from a Sony DSLR camera. So right here we have, you
know, a full frame sensor. This right here, this
is a beautiful thing. Yeah, 35mm across. The one in here would be about 9mm. And basically, the more
bigger, the better. The larger the pixel, the
more light that can hit it, the better your image, the better your low light performance. One thing that is
similar between these two is it has back illuminated technology. So basically, in a normal
sensor you have, you know, the light that comes in
and there's a metal wiring in front of it that delivers electricity and stuff to your pixels, and a lot of it to read data and so on. And then your photo diodes are below that. Whereas in this, and this guy here, you have the photo diodes on top, and the metal wiring below it. So you don't potentially
have your little light rays coming in, bouncing off
of that metal wiring, and not giving good picture. Because of that, you
also receive more light, which can increase your
low light performance. Oh, the magnet's directional. So it only goes in one way. And it's pretty strong, too. I like that it is a directional magnet, because it would be pretty
easy to accidentally put this on backwards, set it up, and then you go to turn
it on, you're like. I do really like this lens cap though. It's just magnetic. Actually, before we plug this in, let's just get a baseline of
what the famously bad webcam on this XPS15 looks like. A web cam that looks like
this on a $2,000 laptop. In fairness, I do understand
why they did this. It has to go into a super small space. You can't put a big
sensor in a small bezel, but yeah, it still is a bit annoying. This thing does feel, it
does feel really good. I believe all of the outside is aluminum. It looks premium. Oh, that's cool. Thing just boots right up. Select a preset that suits your style and how you want to appear on camera. Default, smooth, yeah beauty filter, vibrant, we'll just go
with default and continue. High dynamic range, why
wouldn't I want that? Proximity sensor, walk away
lock, wake on approach. Sure. That's quite the set up. This is definitely designed
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distortion over here now. So I guess that it's a wide lens. It's currently on 90 degrees, and the other ones are digital zooms. So you do definitely want to stay kind of in the center but it
does a pretty good job of following me around. Hello, camera, can you get me? So you can change your field of view. It's a fixed lens, so you're
just digitally zooming. But it does do a pretty good job. I am really impressed with how it's able to manage this scene. So you've kind of got
like, that's a light, that's really bright. You've also got a lot of dark. This wall back here, all of
this is really challenging, but it's doing a really great job of just exposing for my face instead of exposing for just random things that it picks up in the background. That can be a real problem
on, well, any camera, but laptop webcams in particular. The zoom. It's just a digital zoom. It doesn't look fantastic. This feels kind of weird now. The priority, it says
exposure or frame rate. Why would you have to
choose between those? I'm guessing that they're
changing the shutter speed in order to give you more exposure in low light situations. Can we turn the lights down here? So it just got a lot darker. Exposure's coming up. This is a really challenging
situation for a webcam, but also one that you'll end up in a lot. So this is kind of the classic, you're sitting in front of
a window, you're really dark and everything else behind
you is really light. It's doing an okay job at this. But in fairness this is
a really tough situation, I don't even know how it
looks on that, probably fine. Let's see what happens if I change it to frame rate priority. So I'm doing this on frame rate priority. And then we go to exposure
priority, and huh. It's kind of hard to tell, but I do think that is
making a difference. It seems way more jello-y. The exposure on this is really good. Like the way that it
automatically just changes. Take a look at this. So I'm moving the white balance. That's too blue. This is really hard to do. All right, well auto white
balance, leave that on. That's my conclusion from that. That's at Dell, it would be really nice if you had numbers in
there, pretty please. That would be a great update. So, sharpness. So I guess on a normal day you might wanna turn that up a bit so that you look nice and crisp. But then, if you're
having kind of a bad day, you take it over to the left. So if you have like a pimple, you can't quite see it. (laughs) This is all pretty standard camera stuff, but it's fun to play with it. So let's compare these. This is a very practical
camera to have as your webcam. Going to talk into it here. It's a bit heavy. So bit out of most peoples budgets when it comes to webcams, for sure. But it can deliver just, I imagine, stunning video quality if
I'm able to hold it (laughs) - The resolution was in full HD, you didn't even use like 4K. - What? Dang it. I can't believe that. See, this is why you
have camera operators. Frame rate seems way lower now. I am like a jello-y mess. That must be why they were doing that. They were both set to 30, I believe. So this right here is 4K, the best that this camera can give you. Now, looking at it, especially
like the sharpness and such, this seems really good. I am impressed. We just recorded the whole
video in 1080p, damn it. So yeah, thanks for watching guys (laughs) - [Andy] Hey, you know, the 1080p is good. You know that the 4K one is even better - Yeah, if the 1080p is
good, the 4K's even better. This is an exceptional webcam. I do have to say. 200 bucks? This seems pretty
compelling if you need it. So anyway, yeah. This is the Dell
Ultrasharp webcam, WB7022. I think it's a wicked
little piece of tech. Hope you guys have a great day. Hit like, get subscribed. So long.
