The Opal Tadpole - smallest webcam I've ever seen!
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- čas přidán 13. 11. 2023
- Opal just released their brand new Tadpole webcam, the smallest and most portable webcam I've ever seen!
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The smoothing is ridiculously over the top. You look cell shaded, lol. I dont understand how the selfie cam on an average phone these days looks infinitely better than this.
That said, the POV live stream shots with the Pokemon cards look significantly better than the extended talking head segment. Were there different settings used there?
Came here to mention the cel shaded-ness. That image demo was a bit uncanny valley for me, the flatness of the eyes messed me up.
The average phone costs 4 times as much and a large part of that cost is how good their cameras(and post-processing algorithms) have gotten, to be fair to phone cameras.
@@xipalips the average phone costs maybe 2x as much and includes many components that aren't included here such as a screen, battery, ample RAM, etc.
Dude I thought it may be like 50 bucks but nah it's 3x that 💀
@nickthaskater, yeah, i completely agree with you!
I gotta say, this looks awful. It looks like its applying an anime filter to your face. Oversmoothing and outlining the eyes looks creepy. The size of it is cool, and using it for those desk streams is neat tho.
Agree
I feel like Opal said they would pay him 1k every time he said convenience. For $175 this webcam is garbage, there is no way these are his honest thoughts. Honestly i'm disappointed and feel like this just hurts his credibility.
I feel like he changed the camera when going to the desk shot, because the anime filter was gone. either way my old Lenovo Ideapads camera looks better than this.
major blow to his cred imo@@xanderlurks
@@burgunbeerd If you look at his replies to some of these comments, he is not taking the criticism well
I mean I like how it looks, but it clearly is heavily filtered and processed, I think I disagree with your opinion on this looking natural.
None of that matters though because at $175, it's highway robbery. I've worked with manufacturers and I can tell you that you're paying for something that costs $10 in hardware and there's no software or rnd that went into this.
This will have Chinese clones in a few months for a fraction as well for anyone after something similar.
Finally someone mentions the robbery price
The whole "it's clean and natural" line was a clear give away this is a straight up Ad
the smoothing is so overdone you look like a well made ps1 character
$175😅 reasonable bruh
why does it look like a "Paper-like/Cartoony" filter ????
for 175$ USD!?! id rather buy a used C920 with the LogiCapture software, it looks 1000x better than this for WAY cheaper
Not a fan of this. The processing is beyond obvious to the point of just making it look bad....I don't know if some settings might fix it, but the processing is bad, it looks like it's shooting at 20 FPS, and yeah...definitely not for me. It might be ok for just video calls, but for that price, I'd just go with something else, hell I have a $20 "2k" webcam I got off of Amazon that looks better than this ...for some reason, the POV shots looked decent at least, somehow....Too many other options out there these days, and many of them look a lot better.
cant wait to substitute my bad laptop camera to a worse and inconvenient one :D
Hey frank I was wondering what's a good gaming setup for a intel i7 I bought it from you on your whatnot stream and I don't know what parts to get for it I'm trying to get a all white setup as well
I like the form factor, but not a fan of the audio quality. I wouldn't call the image quality natural. Looks like there's a filter over it. It would be a good on the iPad as a external cam though
"how natural the image looks" - guy who looks like he's reporting live from Borderlands. Jeez
🤣
I am still just waiting on them to release Windows support for the OpalC1
Do you plan to do another yearly headphones video? I’m sure you would but I’m really in need of a good recommendation/video for some headphones primarily for gaming and music
Yup!
@@randomfrankp thank you so much
I feel like this video is a perfect example of why this channel is falling apart with limited views. Everything seems like just a long low effort sponsor read. No comparison to other webcams such as the built in macbook one, logitech, etc. No comparison of audio quality and sound isolation to the built in laptop ones, other webcams, a real mic etc. Everything is just trust me its good because this company paid me to say this. Overall poor review.
I mean it’s really a niche product. There’s really not much to compare to. It’s selling point it’s small/slim form factor. Everyone has different laptops and webcams. If you feel like you need something better. Than you are probably searching for something like this.
If you want a webcam and don’t care how big it is. Then there are many other options to choose from that have been known and reviewed for many years.
This channel seems to be doing just fine lol. It seems to be a fairly strong and detailed review.
Not my favourite review channel but alot of the good series are still there.
It's not always this bad, but this is a bs product and this entire video is clearly just a long ad. I like some of his reviews but definitely not this one
If you knew this channel you would see that he does videos where he compares webcams. He’s done it many times with other items as well.
Are you dropping a black Friday vid this year?
Yup!
Looks way too soft for the price. At $62 USD, the C920 still is the better value.
I had wrote a snarky comment, but im about to go on my 2nd work trip and that gave me pause. Could be useful.
Do you plan to do black friday video im sure you will but i just got payed and im itching to buy lol
Yes. This weekend is packed with content 👌🏻
The camera is clearly doing something to handle faces much worse than it does with the POV example with the Pokemon cards. I don't understand it, but how it makes faces look works kills it as an option for me.
You clipping it to your shirt is genius. I'd never think to do that, I love it!
Nice Frank!!!!
Nifty little camera, but yeah the video noise reduction is a little over-the-top. But if you're just using it for zoom meeting or whatever I bet it would be really handy.
Going to use this to see the pov from my rc helicopter
Paid promotion?
The image looks super artificial man "natural" is definitely not the word to describe this. 😂
I like the nasa sweatshirt where can I find it?
This camera ain’t it for me. I think it just looks really jittery. I feel like my Surface Book 3 has a better camera. It’s definitely an interesting product though. Hopefully this is just a CZcams compression or stream issue and not actually visible in the video calls that this would be used for.
a camera tem a imagem estilo cartoon, é como se tivesse processando todo o ruido da cena e acaba ficando com esse aspecto de Oil Paint
Wonderful 👍
175 dollar is a rip off for a Webcam with such limited features and poor overall quality imo
Just 3D print a Tadpole extender tab for your particular monitor?
Why does it look like it could fit in a Framework expansion card…
This gives me ideas
Glad I watched, not the video quality I was looking for so this is a no-buy for me. Honestly doesn't seem much better than the Webcam built into most Macbooks
Dude looks like he's got eyeliner on with the cam lmao. What the heck.
If your #1 priority is convenience I guess this is an option??? but otherwise there are things like Elgato Facecam if you don't need AF. Honestly think even the Logitech Streamcam looks better than this other than the card shots.
Chances are if you're carrying around a laptop, you probably either wanna carry as little as possible (if you're just carrying a laptop sleeve or it bare) OR have a bag with probably enough space for a webcam.
well if you are using you macbook for this you don't need your phone so you can use your iphone for the camera and not really loose anything
All the CZcamsrs never pay for the product. So all they say it is awesome.
please make it clear when you're participating in an affiliate scheme, it is generally perceived as a conflict of interest when you get a kickback for people purchasing the product.
Cam looks pretty nice. Franks eye liner...well its a tad distracting TBH
I've seen WAY smaller webcams (though not mass produced products)
Wait, it’s looking way worse than my m1 mac webcam. It’s cool for the POV shot, but for everything else, it’s difficult to understand your ‘recommandation’ here.
Corgis do indeed rule the whole world. Glad you understand!
I don't know, the picture quality is pretty bad for the price and, honestly, it doesn't even look all that small. Just a bit smaller than the average webcam.
Good concept but quality looks awful.
man, you look like an oil painting for 175$ 💀, you should have called them out on their video marketing like you did a while ago with Logitech. Just sayin
too much smoothing, you look like an oil painting
Looks muddy AF
I love high quality & in mini size
for nearly 200 dollars? no thanks ill just buy anything else..... /edit: razer kiyo pro is half the price btw
What is that useless thing ? A webcam to put over your existing one, weird
Great Xmas gift idea.🤔
Wow, it makes Frank look like he has some sort of ai filter on his face. His eyes and mouth look very digitized. I'm gonna pass on this one.
Brother has been sold
Honestly, i'm a fan of the original Opal1 camera. But this one... I don't know. $175... It just seems too much for this kind of quality. Sure, it's design in itself is nice. It looks sleek, and nice, and it's small and all that. But the quality is suffering. The audio isn't the best either. Again, i understand it's very small. But the price should be accordingly. I'm not really "sold" on this one. I much rather had the original Opal1 and have a bit more bulk with me with MUCH MORE quality in both the video & audio!
I honestly don´t know why people are raving over a f´ing webcamera, just because some popular people tell them to do so....... I mean, webcams were super cool in the early 00´s but now they are in all entry-level and up laptops so this is a niche market beyond niche markets. The quality of the picture is not even close to decent. it costs 175USD and you can pick up a Brio 500 for less than 100USD.
Yikes that looks awful. Possibly one of the worst webcam images ive seen for years. I'd prefer slightly blurry to whatever filter theyre running that through. Weirdly it looked better when you got right up to the webcam but thats not how people use webcams so. No real negatives when it looks like this and costs so much? And saying this is for the work environment when basically no one cares what they look like in zoom calls espeically not enough to carry a separate dongle with them. nope
Dam just say you didn't like the video
That’s tiny!
4:37 This was so disingenous of you.
This VC funded crap has invested all their money on Marketing and Website than creating an actual product.
For $175 you can buy a piece of shit that is outperformed by an aliexpress camera...
I love the product idea but the image quality is garbage. it looks like a cartoon filter.
This webcam looks like actual shit LOL. Not worth no more than $50
$175 for a terrible camera? Nah... any Logitech will do the job for 1/3 of the price
I think it looks fine idk what everyone is saying.
I guess I’m not seeing what others are seeing, I like the look of the picture it gives. Personally wouldn’t use it, just don’t have a need for it as my laptop camera is sufficient enough for my remote meetings, but I’m sure someone could come up with cool ideas.
Don't you think it looks like they smeared his face across and it looks like a painting? or like a cartoon cut out. Squinting my eyes it does seem like it would be fine as a webcam for meetings when it is in a small frame and lower resolution, but not worth it all for me.
@@Jj82ophmm, I do think I can see it a bit now after studying a little harder, but certainly not to the point where I think it looks bad though.
But I’m 100% with you on not worth it 😂 very expensive for something almost everyone has nowadays between laptop or phone.
wow ....
haha i bet you know a lot about small stuff huh frank
703 Likes / 443 Dislikes ~ I knew it. This video is something off. The quality itself with nasty filter is awful.
Idk what plugin you use but that is wildly off lmao
@@randomfrankp scoff* You can laugh all you want.
The opal chadpole buy it now!
Criminally
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Horrible sponsored review. Way over processed, looks so bad.
Everyone likes to crap on something without any context on business decisions. The market for this isn't gamers or content creators. The camera's image isn't meant to be seen fullscreen because it's marketed as an ultraportable webcam for a laptop. The primary use of a laptop webcam is for meetings and when you're in a meeting, your image is small, like 10% of the screen. So I'm almost certain the reason it looks the way it looks is so that your face really pops and look nice in a small window alongside other small windows in a meeting.
It’s $175, it’s a scam and it looks cell shaded af. And it does not look natural at all, at least on my phone it looks ultra saturated and processed. Mic quality is subpar as well.
You're welcome to not like it and not be the target market for it. But "scam" is a strong word for a company that someone like MKBHD invested in. I doubt he would attach himself to a brand that's a "scam"
Again, they probably made it look "cel-shaded" because it helps make the user stand out, image-wise, in a Zoom meeting when there are a bunch of webcams. No one in a meeting is going to nitpick the image quality.
This is also exactly why, in a blind camera quality test, most people tend to pick the image that "pops" more and looks more saturated and sharpened.@@ArcturusCOG
But business laptops already have a webcam for this. Having to use a 175$ almost as crappy external webcam for this case is almost useless. And then, at the desk, it doesn’t even clip on the monitor where it could be useful… the POV shot is a interesting use case however but an action cam will do a better job.
I agree with your last point. An action cam will do POV better. But it is more expensive and doesn't clip without an additional accessory.
As to your first point, no regular consumer is going to spend $175 on this webcam, especially if it doesn't look as good as the Logitech Brio, which is priced around $175. However, the portability of this webcam is a major factor for on-the-go business consumers, who I think are the target audience. And this webcame looks better than built in webcams, so they are going to look more professional in meetings.@@TEKDAD
If it's only meant for being small on the screen then why isn't a basic webcam that's already in my laptop good enough? I'd say it looks better than this