Wow! The Pro 2K seems much better in a number of areas. 1) Dynamic Range (it shows details in the shadows better - see the top left car wheel) 2) Sharpness (both your face/hair and the background is sharper in every lighting condition) 3) Auto adjustment (this can be important when light from a window changes due to clouds moving in front of the sun). For people using this webcam for working from home you really don't need the Ultrasharp features so the Pro 2K seems like a great new webcam choice.
Love hearing your thoughts and assessment between the Dell Pro vs Ultrasharp webcams. Agree with you for people just using at home for video conferencing the Pro 2k is all that's needed.
I decided to take the plunge and buy the Pro 2k. It arrived today and I'm really happy with it. I've also owned the Logitech Brio 4K, Logitech 930e and Elgato Facecam and this is the best of the lot for my use case, which is almost entirely Teams calls. It's much better in managing things automatically and that's really important for me because I have no additional lighting in front of me (just the light from my monitor) and have skylights behind me that constantly cause the light in my attic room to change throughout the day. It may take a few seconds to adjust to light changes but at least it does it. The Elgato is terrible for automatically adjusting the settings (it is great if your lighting never changes) and the Brio was really hit and miss. The other thing that I love about it is it sits over the top edge of the monitor bringing it slightly lower for a better viewing angle. The Elgato is the worst for that as it sits a few inches above your monitor. The best thing is that this is cheaper than both!
Does the Dell 4K webcam have an option to change the Background? i.e. Blur out the background, Blank, Other scenery, use your own photos as the background
Thanks for the review! I just had one question: does this webcam cover a lot of the top of the screen when you mount it on the monitor? The way it mounts with the webcam barrel itself, it looks like the front lip is a lot thicker than the usual webcam monitor mounts. It looks like the front lip covers well past the monitor bezel and onto the display area itself.
Hi, thanks for your review, it's very complete. I don't understand why Dell didn't choose the USB C or 3.x port to have better video flow speeds, why keep USB 2.0, it's nonsense? I find that the Pro has too many design flaws, it encroaches too much on the edges of the screen, non detachable cable, even if I find that the video quality is a little better on the Pro, maybe due to the fact that its aperture is f2.0 vs f2.2 for ultrasharp. Doesn't the slowdown problem of the WB5022 come from the fact that you have connected 2 webcams on the same computer and the AI framing calculation comes from the PC processor? Is it the same Starvic processor on both cameras?
In case of DELL Ultra 4k webcam: I have noticed that in HDR mode the picture quality goes down in comparison with HDR off (gets more cubics and looks low quality). I have noticed it on video here and personally testing it. Any explanation for it. Can it be improved?
Does the 2k and 4K resolutions are available on Linux? I did some search and I found only HD resolution is possible on Linux as Dell don’t have any to configure these Webcams. What are your thoughts about it?
Only the presets for the FOV, after that there is zoom level you can set so I guess that is the greater control of FOV you might be interested in @Olliver Aira
Wow! The Pro 2K seems much better in a number of areas. 1) Dynamic Range (it shows details in the shadows better - see the top left car wheel) 2) Sharpness (both your face/hair and the background is sharper in every lighting condition) 3) Auto adjustment (this can be important when light from a window changes due to clouds moving in front of the sun). For people using this webcam for working from home you really don't need the Ultrasharp features so the Pro 2K seems like a great new webcam choice.
Love hearing your thoughts and assessment between the Dell Pro vs Ultrasharp webcams. Agree with you for people just using at home for video conferencing the Pro 2k is all that's needed.
Quick question : how much does the webcam heat up. Considering it's metal build ?
I decided to take the plunge and buy the Pro 2k. It arrived today and I'm really happy with it. I've also owned the Logitech Brio 4K, Logitech 930e and Elgato Facecam and this is the best of the lot for my use case, which is almost entirely Teams calls. It's much better in managing things automatically and that's really important for me because I have no additional lighting in front of me (just the light from my monitor) and have skylights behind me that constantly cause the light in my attic room to change throughout the day. It may take a few seconds to adjust to light changes but at least it does it. The Elgato is terrible for automatically adjusting the settings (it is great if your lighting never changes) and the Brio was really hit and miss. The other thing that I love about it is it sits over the top edge of the monitor bringing it slightly lower for a better viewing angle. The Elgato is the worst for that as it sits a few inches above your monitor. The best thing is that this is cheaper than both!
Does the Dell 4K webcam have an option to change the Background? i.e. Blur out the background, Blank, Other scenery, use your own photos as the background
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Thanks for the review! I just had one question: does this webcam cover a lot of the top of the screen when you mount it on the monitor? The way it mounts with the webcam barrel itself, it looks like the front lip is a lot thicker than the usual webcam monitor mounts. It looks like the front lip covers well past the monitor bezel and onto the display area itself.
Hi, thanks for your review, it's very complete.
I don't understand why Dell didn't choose the USB C or 3.x port to have better video flow speeds, why keep USB 2.0, it's nonsense? I find that the Pro has too many design flaws, it encroaches too much on the edges of the screen, non detachable cable, even if I find that the video quality is a little better on the Pro, maybe due to the fact that its aperture is f2.0 vs f2.2 for ultrasharp.
Doesn't the slowdown problem of the WB5022 come from the fact that you have connected 2 webcams on the same computer and the AI framing calculation comes from the PC processor? Is it the same Starvic processor on both cameras?
In case of DELL Ultra 4k webcam: I have noticed that in HDR mode the picture quality goes down in comparison with HDR off (gets more cubics and looks low quality). I have noticed it on video here and personally testing it. Any explanation for it. Can it be improved?
What webcam do you recommend for zoom recordings
Does the 2k and 4K resolutions are available on Linux? I did some search and I found only HD resolution is possible on Linux as Dell don’t have any to configure these Webcams.
What are your thoughts about it?
Hmm, is there really no way of gaining greater control over the FOV?
Only the presets for the FOV, after that there is zoom level you can set so I guess that is the greater control of FOV you might be interested in @Olliver Aira
Quick question : how much does the webcam heat up. Considering it's metal build ?
Was thinking about that too. I've got a uvc30 and it heats a lot.
If I remember correctly, it needs to stop streaming and re-streaming after HDR toggle....