 Hi, this is George Cowell. So in this short video, I'm going to show you what a difference a good quality webcam makes in Making a video. So I'm going to show you what it looks like when I'm using the default webcam That comes with my laptop versus this one. So this is the default webcam on my laptop I have a MacBook Pro. This was bought in 2010 But back then it was top of the line 17 inch screen And I think they haven't really changed the webcam very much over the years even the latest MacBook has Webcam that's not not too far from this this low rather low quality and notice on this default webcam I have to like I have to adjust this have to turn the screen closer like this and To be able to see more of me and at this kind of angle It's not very comfortable for me to look at the screen if I'm looking at notes or whatever The way that I typically work is at this angle, right this angle to this comfortable looking at the screen But it's not great for the webcam. So as you can see the lighting is not so great either I don't I'm not using any artificial lighting that the lighting the natural lighting in this room is pretty good But it's not great. And so you can see it's kind of has a pinkish quality In the in the picture and so I'm going to now show you what it looks like with my external webcam that I bought This is the one that that I'm going to be showing you and with this one I'm going to show you that this can this can adjust so so this sits this sits very gently on On the top of my laptop screen like this very gently and you can adjust any of these things You can let's see. Yes, you can adjust this piece right here. You can adjust this piece So how it sits on the laptop? It's very easy to use and you can also adjust this top part So that you can you know, you can show the the angle different places. So I'm going to include the link to this webcam and the notes of this video. It's going to be a non a feeling link I don't like to be paid. I don't like getting commissions for endorsing products That's not how I make my money But I do like to endorse products because I genuinely like them and think you should consider it So in the next segment of this video, you're going to see the difference with using this instead and again I'm going to put the I'm going to put the the the laptop screen back to where it's comfortable for me to look at the screen So it's typically like this which is which is not great for the default webcam But here you go watch watch what it's like when I use and here we are back with the external webcam I have literally not changed the positioning of my laptop screen So the very last segment you saw where my laptop screen was Right now comfortable for me to be reading notes or whatever as I'm recording That's the same, but I'm able to adjust the webcam angle So it looks a lot nicer The other thing I love about this webcam is that you can adjust you can download on the Mac You can download a free app from Logitech Logitech webcam C9 I think it's called Logitech camera settings is the I'll include a link to the app but the free app allows me to adjust the brightness of Of the image. So look watch this See, I can adjust however I want the brightness to be organ to make it darker darker or brighter Just very easily by my moving a slider on the app. I can also adjust the contrast easily So let me like this or like this more contrast But obviously I'm just going to put it somewhere in the middle here the color intensity is kind of Yeah, I can make it black and white easily or make it super super colorful easily very easy to do on here There's also another setting called white balance. I don't know what that is. Let's see what that does here Oh, I can't adjust that. It's it's oh, it's automated right now. It's automatic But see white balance is versus this so it's more more right or you know, so something like that So there there's a checkbox that that's put that I can put as auto for the white balance and that see now It automatically adjusts it it also Let's see. Yeah, so those are pretty much the settings and I just got a text sorry for the for the noise there and I can also adjust the focus automatically or let it be manual So right now, let me adjust the focus manually here to show you what happens See now, obviously it's out of focus versus you know in both But I'm gonna click the auto checkbox here and it snaps to focus So it's very smart and I can even adjust the zoom. So let me let me show you what the default zoom is on this So default zoom is pretty wide angle, right compared to my webcam, which is fairly smaller And then I can adjust the zoom one two three three clicks on the zoom This is kind of how I like it because then it kind of hides my my little lapel mic Which I'll include the link to the lapel mic the lapel mic makes a difference too and how it sounds it sounds much better Then then the general if I don't use the lapel mic the sound is more echoey by the way the webcam also comes with a microphone So that's kind of nice as well. The lapel mic. I think it's only $20. So include the link to that as well So anyways as you can see it makes a difference For your Skype calls for if you do webinars Google Hangouts You're you simply make videos. I'm using the photo booth app on my Mac right now Which comes with the Mac what comes with every Mac for free the photo booth app to use to make this video So I hope this helps and enjoy Getting an external webcam if you choose to do so