Hi Everyone,
Apologies for being a newb, but we all have to start somewhere
.
So here is my situation and what I am looking for and hopefully someone will give me some gems of wisdom to help me on my way.
I have started creating videos and as the web cams I have are pretty much useless, I discovered a means to turn my Android phone into a Web Cam, This has the advantage that I can use digital zoom from inside Fine-Cam software which as well as using normal cameras ( IE not a phone as such ) can use my phone.
So my work involves Electronics mainly, and the videos will be close from say as short at maybe 15cm with no zoom to a few feet and longer away from the subject. The problems I currently encounter is that my phone has a bad habit of not only losing focus when my fingers come into view , but is slow to go back into focus when I pull them out of view when I am working on something and the quality is also not fantastic.
So the basic issue is that I need to get a camera on a budget of probably no more than £400 which will do the following ( And looking at prices I't might be a big ask )
1.) Able to have fast and fixed focus.
2.) Able to shoot fairly good quality video @ 1920*1080 or 4K @ close range as described up to many feet away
3.) Have a VGA output so that I can capture it and edit in my Hit film Software OR OBS studio
4.) Have Sufficient storage to capture say at least 45minutes @ 1920x1080
and if possible
5.)Also behave like a web-cam when I plug into the USB if needed
So, with these parameters in mind, can someone a good enough camera to fulfil my requirements, as for me this is a lot of money, so I dont want to shell out hard earned cash and find I have made a mistake.
Thanks to all who respond
Apologies for being a newb, but we all have to start somewhere
. So here is my situation and what I am looking for and hopefully someone will give me some gems of wisdom to help me on my way.
I have started creating videos and as the web cams I have are pretty much useless, I discovered a means to turn my Android phone into a Web Cam, This has the advantage that I can use digital zoom from inside Fine-Cam software which as well as using normal cameras ( IE not a phone as such ) can use my phone.
So my work involves Electronics mainly, and the videos will be close from say as short at maybe 15cm with no zoom to a few feet and longer away from the subject. The problems I currently encounter is that my phone has a bad habit of not only losing focus when my fingers come into view , but is slow to go back into focus when I pull them out of view when I am working on something and the quality is also not fantastic.
So the basic issue is that I need to get a camera on a budget of probably no more than £400 which will do the following ( And looking at prices I't might be a big ask )
1.) Able to have fast and fixed focus.
2.) Able to shoot fairly good quality video @ 1920*1080 or 4K @ close range as described up to many feet away
3.) Have a VGA output so that I can capture it and edit in my Hit film Software OR OBS studio
4.) Have Sufficient storage to capture say at least 45minutes @ 1920x1080
and if possible
5.)Also behave like a web-cam when I plug into the USB if needed
So, with these parameters in mind, can someone a good enough camera to fulfil my requirements, as for me this is a lot of money, so I dont want to shell out hard earned cash and find I have made a mistake.
Thanks to all who respond
