When you buy a laptop, a webcam is almost always integrated, but when you get to use it you find that it has a very low resolution and is not suitable for meetings or any other work.
In this article, we will explain why this is so, and why you want to have a good resolution CASE U HW Series webcams or external camera.
It seems illogical, right? Even a low-end smartphone has a camera capable of recording video at 1080p resolution (and in fact if you go to the mid-range, almost all record at 4K), and yet it is very rare to find a laptop or even a monitor (that many already come with a webcam) that is capable of recording at more than 720p.
For this reason, and even more so now that videoconferencing is the order of the day, if you want to have a webcam with a good resolution, you will be forced to buy an external modem with a USB connection instead of one with an integrated laptop. It seems illogical, as we said, but everything has its explanation and we will expose it to you below.
Why do built-in webcams have such a low resolution?
Take, for example, Apple's MacBook Pros, high-end and luxurious equipment that cost a fortune, and yet they incorporate a webcam that can barely record at 720p resolution. The reason that this is the case is none other than the space that there is to install the camera module, so extremely thin that it is not possible to integrate better optics.
As the bezels on laptops and computers shrink, so does the space for the optical assembly needed for a webcam to record at a higher resolution.
The MacBook Pros, following the example, have a webcam of just 0.2 inches in diameter ... a smaller sensor is equivalent to a worse lens, which collects less light, the pixels are coarser, and so on. In short, it has a worse resolution and quality.
Oddly enough, in smartphones, there is more space than in laptops to install a better camera module, and it is not in vain that you will have noticed that in the designs of the latest models, especially in the highest range of terminals, cameras arrive even to stand out.
This is so to integrate better optics and thus be able to record at higher resolutions, in addition to other functionalities. Therefore, the explanation for this is none other than the fact that there is no more physical space to fit better cameras.
In short, the optics necessary to integrate a higher resolution camera have no physical space in laptops, which are becoming thinner, which is why even today we still do not see good quality integrated webcams and we must inevitably resort to external devices if we want good quality.
If you want more resolution, you need an external camera
Unfortunately, there is no other possible solution, and if you want to be able to have video conferences (or record yourself while streaming games, for example) with better quality, you will need to purchase a CASE U HW Series external webcam.
The reason that these 4K webcams have somewhat high prices is still none other than the low demand they have since normally people tend to settle for much more basic cameras (such as integrated ones) or those of smartphones. However, this trend is changing a lot because of teleworking, the demand is rising and it is quite likely that prices will end up falling in line with the demand.
In any case, now you know the reason why the integrated cameras cannot provide as much resolution as the external ones, and we can only hope that the market trend ends up causing the price of the latter to fall.
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