Good image and easy set up. When I opened it in zoom I felt the zoom was too close bit while in a meeting I noticed that wasn’t the case.

When I was looking around for a new cam for my streaming and general set up, I chose to go with the Logitech C920HD,

The easy to use cam comes with a range of settings which allows your to change the Quality of the images and able to compensate for varieties of Things in your room, that might make you struggle to get a Clear and crisp image, E.G light exposure, Auto focus, Contrast and Many other feature, I use this cam daily, and Absolutely, Love i

I bought this to replace a Microsoft Lifecam Studio that had gone rogue. This webcam, which comes at a very similar, relatively high, price is of comparable quality, and performs as one would expect a high end device of this kind. I am mainly using this webcam for Zoom, Teams or Skype meetings and events, along with recording online lectures.

For these purposes the resolution and frame rate is fine. The field of vision is a little less wide than that of the Microsoft Lifecam, but the colour (although a little washed out in lower lighting conditions) is marginally more accurate and the autofocus is far better. Overall I prefer this to the Microsoft Lifecam for image quality and focus. The sound quality is generally good, although with a tiny bit more feedback than the Microsoft Lifecam. Again, I would consider it entirely acceptable for my purposes.

Like most webcams, it has a flexible base. I’m using this to clip it on top of my monitor. It seems stable, although the lip projects a few millimetres beyond the bezel of my screen, which is not ideal. The build quality seems reasonably solid, if not exceptional.

he video quality especially inside of the Logitech cam program isnt the best, however once used on a stream or inside any other application it looks far clearer. You may find yourself needing to mess with the settings a little to get the colours how you want them however this isnt terrible as most cameras need the same.
The camera lights up blue while it is active to let you know your live on cam. The mic is not very good for the typical distance you will have the camera but does work and most people wont use the camera for the built in mic.

I did have a complete head ache with the delivery of mine which should have taken 1 day but ended up taking 2 weeks. This was a mess up with Amazon and i wont let it affect the score for the product itself.

i did knock off one star for the cam program which isnt great and the quality inside of that program. Also you need to have that program open for the cam to work in many programs however it isnt a killer so i only took one star off. All in all for the camera as a whole it is great and i highly recommend it even for streams and youtube.

Build Quality:
Strong, robust and feels like an actual serious camera. Most webcams feel like an outdated attempt and at a camera but this feels like a serious bit of kit. It has weight to it and the clamp a has a tripod mount. It feels expensive and for a webcam its not cheap. I use the webcam for creating YouTube videos and it does a great job.

Features:
The features are what you expect. You can control the brightness, contrast, white balance, the beloved auto focus and so on. It also has many auto features to do the hard work for you. The webcam features a microphone but its very bad, unusable for YouTube but more than okay for skype and if you have nothing else, it would even be okay for gaming with friends. It claims to be a FHD 1080p webcam and while thats probably true, these webcams will never get the same results as a camera would claiming the same specs, it is however, still one of the best webcams on the market. You can also pan, zoom and you generally have a lot of control over the device.

Conclusion:
Without a doubt one of the best webcams on the market currently. Its features and build quality give it the feel and presence of an actual serious camera, which in turn produces better results than most webcams. While the price might scare some people, if you want a camera which is high quality and wont have issues, you cant go wrong with the C920. The reason its 4/5 is because the microphone lets it down, if the microphone was on the same level as video quality we would have a winner.

Note:
If you get lag or a poor image quality try lighting you room better via dedicated lights and also try turning off some of the auto features. I get a very crisp and smooth image and you should too.

Pros:
– Great build quality
– Great functions such as Pan, zoom, autofocus etc.
– Tripod mount

Cons:
– Below average microphone
– While possibly worth it, its quite expensive

Great product, I really can’t find much to fault this for the price!

I needed a webcam to Skype with clients, many of whom live abroad or on the other side of the country. I’ve tried my phone and tablets plus an old webcam I had laying around but none of them had great video and all of them had poor sound quality. After reading reviews I took a chance on this Logitech.

It’s small and compact and once I had figured the stand out it sat perfectly on top of my Samsung monitor. Upon plugging it in Windows 7 automatically installed all the drivers however said it wasnt working properly. Unplugging it from the USB port and reinserting it fixed that. On the downside the camera doesnt come with any software at all so having it installed is pretty useless if it cant be used. However the software was available on the Logitech website and gives a lot of control and functionality to the camera. You can zoom it, change the quality settings and make basic adjustments to the sound levels. A little more control would be better but it is perfectly functional.

One lesson I had learnt previously is that none of these cameras are particularly good in low light so I ensured that the overhead lights were on and a desklamp was also turned on. Running some test calls with a friend showed very clear video with no noticeable stuttering or lag and great sound quality. Using it to chat with clients I found the same – really there is virtually nothing to criticise here.

At 60 it’s not cheap but neither is it expensive. For the money you get far better than expected video quality and surprisingly good sound quality. I was all prepared to set up one of my work microphones but the inbuilt mic is excellent for voice. I had noticed when trying using the phone and tablets that there was a tinny echoey noise which was horrible. This disappeared completely using the logitech webcam. Total thumbs up from me!

I own two ancient Macs from 2007. Both work flawlessly (one MacBook and one iMac) but, of course, they’re terribly slow for today’s standards. They also have early-generation built-in iSight cameras: a novelty back then, which used low-end cameras. These days, after many upgrades and software installations, it means that, at best, you can get 15 FPS out of those iSights, and you will need excellent light to get that. Using webcam chat, Skype, Yahoo, Hangouts, or similar technology means that the frame rate goes down. The bad lighting conditions at home can be offset by some software (like CamTwist) but there is a limit to what they can do.

Current-generation webcams have much higher resolutions, and, in the case of the C920 HD Webcam from Logitech, a plethora of built-in enhancements (which do not require external software). The problem with current-generation webcams is that, obviously, they require much more CPU power to get a constant stream at high FPS. This is not an issue for most high-end contemporary systems, but… what about low-end, outdated computers like mine?

Logitech offers in their C920 HD Webcam an alternative: H.264 encoding and streaming. All this is done by the webcam, not by the computer’s CPU. Similarly, all hardware enhancements — from setting the light levels, hue, saturations, but also zoom, pan, tilt — are done by the webcam itself, leaving the CPU completely free. The result? Even on my low-level hardware, I get at least 720i video streaming at 30 FPS. Constantly. It doesn’t matter how many applications are currently open or not, the webcam will not require much CPU power. It also means that saving videos to disk will consume far less disk space, as the captured stream is already H.264-encoded and, as such, it will be much smaller.

The C920 HD Webcam is announced as a “teleconferencing camera”. This means that not only it will capture the image from someone sitting in front of the computer perfectly (like any other high-end webcam), but it will easily capture a whole team around a desk. In my case, I live in a very small room and had huge difficulties of getting a full-body picture of myself — it meant using a timer and running away fast. The wide-angle lens is perfect for those situations. It’s not usual to see a webcam to feature *both* wide-angles lenses *and* a zoom function, but the C920 HD Webcam has them both.

There is also a treat. The (foldable) monitor grip (which will work on laptops, CRTs, flat-panel screens, or as a standalone mini-tripod; a “real” tripod can also be used, the webcam includes a standard orifice for that) puts the camera more or the less in a fixed position (i.e. there is no swivel function). *But* you can pan (move horizontally) and tilt (move vertically) the image *without* physically moving the camera: it’s all done by software! What this means is that all usual adjustments can be done without moving the camera from its position. A plus if you have it on a fixed position and are unable to move it around a lot. This is the advantage of having a wide-angle camera: it actually captures a much larger area than what is displayed.

Windows XP/7/8 software for all those features is available from Logitech’s website. Mac users can either use the “default” settings or install a (free) tool from Logitech to get access to more advanced settings; it is designed for the C930e but works quite well with the C920. If you’re willing to spend a few extra dollars, you can buy the app Webcam Settings from the Apple Store, which will give you much more control over all sorts of settings, apply noise reduction, fine-tune the webcam so you can use it to take screen pictures without annoying flicker, and store different profiles (useful if you have a laptop and use it at the office under fluorescent light, and move back home, where the light might be more yellowish, and enjoy webcamming outside, where the sun is shining). While every modern camera will automatically adapt to a degree, Webcam Settings will allow much more precise fine-tuning.

An advantage of the Logitech C920 HD Webcam used on the Mac is that it will stream to many applications simultaneously (I think this is thanks to Webcam Settings also being on). This was previously possible with applications like CamTwist (free) or ManyCams, but apparently it works out of the box with the Logitech C920 HD Webcam. I managed to be simultaneously online on FaceTime, Skype and Google Hangouts+, while saving the same stream to QuickTime. Except for Google Hangouts, which shows slightly lower quality and much lower FPS (maybe due to the driver that Google uses), all others exhibited the same image, the same quality, all at 30 FPS, which is simply amazing. I’ve also tested it with popular Flash-based webcam chat sites online, with the same results (again, Google Hangouts has the lowest quality). The only application that didn’t work with it was Yahoo Messenger. It correctly finds the camera on the settings for video, but when enabling it, Yahoo Messenger will always turn the iSight on, even if the configuration says otherwise! It could be a local problem. Then again, Yahoo hasn’t updated the Mac version of Messenger for years, and that might be it.

I couldn’t validate the claim that this supports 1080i video streaming on Skype. Very likely, not on a Mac. Still, it’s clear from the pan/tilt controls that you can get much more pixels than the ones showed. QuickTime correctly identifies this webcamera as being wide-screen and adapts itself to it. Other applications might not (Google Hangouts always turns the image into wide-screen, through software, thus probably a reason why it has fewer FPS than the other tools which just capture the stream raw).

Also, don’t let the webcam images fool you. The C920 is actually much smaller than it looks on the pictures: it’s about 4″ wide by 1″ tall. The grip/clip folds neatly and allows it to be easily packed away.

My conclusion? There are better webcams in the market — namely, Logitech’s own C930e. There are other cameras with wide-angle lenses, some even with built-in LEDs to perform better in very low-light conditions. And there are cheaper ones. However, since the C930e has been launched, the C920 dropped in price considerably. It packs a lot of punch, doing all the hard work of processing HD video, and leaving the computer’s CPUs free for other tasks. I’d definitely recommend this webcam to all users of low-end/old computers who really need the best webcam quality they can (obviously, high-end systems will still benefit from a smaller drain on resources and from saving videos already compressed, saving the need of post-processing them for upload/attachment).

Always read the fine print.

I didn’t so I bought this webcam without knowing that Logitech doesn’t actually support this device on Mac OS X. Bummer.
Anyway, not to be disheartened I connected it all up and started using the webcam. Thankfully OS X recognises it and lets you use it as the default webcam (as long as you don’t mind changing the preferences in every video chat application you own – although if you have no built in iSight and or your MacBook / Pro’s lid is closed it will default to the logitech).

Video
Anyway actual performance of the webcam is ace. It is extremely smooth and the quality is astounding. I still have not worked out if Skype is using the camera at 720p or 1080p but feedback from my friends has been only positive.
After searching on the internet I found if you wish to review in 1080p for things such as youtube video’s you can incredibly simply use Quicktime to record. Unbelievably simply solution to what I thought would be a complex issue.
Something I also found out about was an application which is available on the Mac App store called ‘Webcam Settings’.
This 6 programme allows you to edit a variety of settings manually such as Brightness, Exposure, Gain, Contrast, Hue, Saturation, Sharpness and more importantly White Balance. What’t more it allows you to save settings and even tamper with autofocus, zoom panning and tilting. It can also compensate for backlighting. Basically this little programme (which works with every webcam including the built in iSight – it seems to override the master settings so you can do this once and it applies to every application like Skype and FaceTime.) gives you a lot of the functionality that the Logitech software would have given you.

Video performance was what I hoped and expected it to be. Brilliant.

Sound.
Oh my, how to describe it?
Brilliant!
Stereo sound is a great bonus but the microphones themselves are brilliant. Definitely what I was looking for and leaps and bounds beyond the built in microphones on Macs.

Clip
Well the actually clip for the device is well designed. It even has a tripod mount! I have attached it to the back of my 20″ Apple Cinema Display and it works brilliantly. I was very happy with that aspect indeed.

On the whole this is a well designed product which is fantastic for video bloggers and video call enthusiasts alike.
It may cost a fair amount but the technology it contains most definitely justifies the price tag.
It is a shame that Logitech decided to abandon the Mac software wise but to be honest. No great loss, the software I found on the App store is just as good if not better.