You need three things when it comes to a good webcam for streaming: a banger of a sensor for stellar picture quality, versatility in its design to fit into any dense setup, and a ton of customization options to really up the professional quality of your content. With some small but crucial tweaks to the formula, the Elgato Facecam MK.2 nails all three of these.
For the same $149 price tag, you’re getting all that made the original Facecam great with some top notch updates. That same 1/ 2.5” Sony STARVIS CMOS sensor is back and paired with Elgato’s Prime Lens optics, for a gorgeously crispy picture with professional-grade color. But with new quality of life updates such as built-in flash memory to save your settings to the camera, HDR at 1080p60, a privacy shutter built into the new sleeker design, and vastly improved low light performance (thanks to the f/2.4 aperture and AI), this is a bumper package for the cost.
