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we're here at Logitech to check out the c920 2 webcam it is a direct replacement for the legendary c920 webcam which is used by a huge amount of streamers including myself the c920 2 features two main new modes 60fps at 720p and background replacement let's see how it fares against its tried and trusted older brother the be quiet dark based pro 900 modular design supports a variety of different layouts and configurations click on the link in the video description to learn more let's start with the most drastic feature change they now have background replacement they've opted not to use intel realsense we've seen that applied in a few different background replacement cameras in the past instead of using a depth sensing camera they went with a strictly software solution which is mainly focused on shape recognition and comparing contrast levels now when I first caught wind of this I thought it was going to be terrible and it wasn't at all it was actually rather awesome especially for an amateur streamer or something like that it's not going to replace an actual green screen or blue screen or something like that but it does a really good job with what it has which is actually very impressive especially when we put it in crazy scenarios like pointing it towards a window that was partially open in a super variable back wall something that it shouldn't do very good with to test out how well it worked ed and I ran it through a number of scenarios including a few different torture tests where we expected it to really start failing was mainly when we reduced the light in the room and to be fair it did get worse but it was impressive that it actually functioned at all we even did some testing where we rapidly moved the camera around changing the angle of attack that the camera had on the person that it was trying to record this would be problematic for a camera that is trying to base its background replacement based off the shape of your body and we tried it against a few different backgrounds even rapidly changing the backgrounds again there were some problems here but it was rather impressive that it functioned at all because this was a pretty intense scenario for this type of background replacement now again because it's basing itself off of shape recognition and contrast helping it out by giving it a second to really recognize what's going on in the scene having a basic solid background and having ample lighting could really help it out if you want to step up the experience now if you do want to put something like a foldable green screen or something behind you even if you don't have the throw distance and lighting that you would normally expect from a green screen experience you can get a lot out of it by using that in combination with the background replacement software and a chroma key through whatever streaming software you're using I'll also point out that it had an easier time tracking myself than Edsel but I would expect that is probably due to the reflective properties of his glasses than anything else now moving on to 60fps this was enough to sell me on the camera entirely by itself before I even heard about the background replacement stuff it streams at 60fps 720p just like a huge amount of twitch streamers because of the max bitrate cap that twitch has it's kind of the best way to stream right now so having your webcam being able to stream at that same frame rate that same frame rate that pcmr likes is very very cool and I must note that checking the settings is rather important as the fact of it running at 60fps is a little bit dynamic for instance if you enable low-light compensation it's not going to work it has to slow down the frame rate so it can get more light per frame dropping you down to about 15 fps not 60 and enabling other things can drop it down to 30 even so just make sure that it's actually functioning at 60 if that's what your goal is with all the settings between the C 922 and the c920 set at the same thing I did personally find the C 922 to be considerably better especially when looking at my hair you could really see the older c920 struggle with loads of artifacting lines while the newer c 922 handled it much better managing to look a lot less like the footage I would expect to come from a traditional webcam and again I have some additional notes here I would highly recommend diving into the manual settings Ed's will brought this up and I definitely agree the sharpness seems to be too low by default they could change this later on but just so you know and depending on your setup you might want to have different exposure contrast brightness etc etc dive into the manual settings you can get a lot more out of the camera that way if you opt to get the non X version you can get an included little mini tripod if you want to not mount it on top of your monitor like I expect most of you to do and I would also note that I believe the mic in here is the same as the original c920 meaning 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in their inbox no more guessing games for your unrestricted 30-day free trial go to fresh book stock column slash tech tips and enter Linus tech tips in the how did you hear about a section but now I want to know what you guys think are you considering upgrading to this over your current c920 or if you're shopping for a webcam is it just better that this is supposedly the same price and better in basically every area and has more features or do you just not care let us know in the comments down below or on twitter at Linus tech thanks for watching check out Amazon to buy one of these things if you would like check out the link in the description down below to buy a t-shirt like this one which is cool like the video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it get subscribed go on the forum to talk about this camera and other cool things and I'll see you next time