Long story short, it's not 4K. I tried not only all the built-in utilities, but also OBS Studio and some other software, and nothing got the actual 4K resolution, so it's fraudulent in that respect. However, it's probably better than most of these cameras. The main reason I'm posting is because I wanted to share with people that there is a default setting that has to do with light balance mode, that if you can get in and find and disable that setting, and you have to use a special third-party, there's an open-source tool, you can find it on GitHub, or if you can use OBS Studio, and you have to do this every time your computer reboots, but if you can just disable that setting, it will transform your webcam, it will be actually usable in a smooth picture, but if you just have the default, you go and buy this and plug it in and try to use it, it's going to be a miserable experience. It was like stop-motion, like a claymation animation, like one frame per second with tracers. It was absolutely unusable. I only hung on and fought with it and researched for a full day because I had already tried three other webcams, and they all were even worse than this one, and I figured I was fighting, I thought maybe it was my computer or something else, no, it was not, and after a whole lot of research, you know, into the directshow api from Microsoft and USB device settings, and really digging in and figuring it all out, I found out it was that setting, and if that setting is turned off, the webcam becomes usable, and it's smooth and nice. It was weird seeing people post reviews of this specific cam, and for example some lady's video here on Amazon, if you watch closely, she's running her video in fast forward, so when you look at the screen and you're seeing it kind of smooth, that's not in real time! She's actually run her review in a faster speed, and it tricked me. I thought, oh, wow, that looks really smooth, why isn't mine like hers, and then I saw that it was sped up. I'm like, oh, man, she was dishonest, and you know, when you dig around, I actually did find some other reviews online where they had actually had it honest, and it really was smooth, but they had found that setting, and then of course there are other ones that are choppy, but anyway, I just wanted to share that about the setting. It's some light balance mode. Have to disable that to make this usable.
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