papalook PA452 Full HD 1080P Webcam with Microphone, Plug and Play USB Web Camera 65° View Angle for PC Computer Laptop Video Calling Online Class YouTube Zoom Meeting Teams, Compatible with Windows

I have three of these - one for the home and two for work. They are great. Easy to use. Plug and play. Good price, good quality, good picture. I work for an international firm, and most of my meetings are with 40+ people at a time. My image consistently looks better than most if not all others. The built-in mic works well - crisp and clear with no delay. There was no autofocus, but there was a manual one - you just set it once and forget it. I highly recommend!

This camera delivers everything promised plus more. It couldn't be easier to install; absolutely plug-'n-play. The hardest part was getting it out of the box. There are no adjustments needed as it works perfectly right out of the box. The picture quality is excellent, you can shift between the original picture ratio and 16:9 widescreen. You can also switch HD on and off. The sound quality on the microphone is excellent, again no adjustment required. All in all it's a great camera for the money. I'd definitely recommend it.

Outside of using the built-in webcam on my Surface Pro laptop, it wasn't sufficient for the number of meetings I needed to participate in lately with Covid. So I bought 2 different brands from Amazon (Papalook PA452 [This review] and Amcrest AWC201-B) to try them out on my Dell Desktop, which has more computing power and 2 larger screens. After hooking up both webcams at the same time and trying them out side-by-side, I learned alot... unfortunately neither of these webcams fit my needs, so they'll both be returned and I'll continue my search.Pros of the Papalook PA452: Nicely packaged in a small box, with clear instructions inside. Overall the build quality seems good, it pivots well side-to-side, and it mounted to the top of my thin, widescreen monitor fine. It was extremely easy to install/setup, and Windows 10 plug and play recognized it immediately, allowing me to use it right away in Zoom and Google Hangouts. Plus it shipped/arrived very quickly.Cons: Although the microphone was sensitive and properly picked up all the spoken words, I found it to sound a little muffled/distant (although it was better than then other model). Maybe there's a 3rd party app/driver that could have helped with this, but out of the box, it was just ok. As for image quality, I admit I don't have the best lighting in the room, other than an overhead light built into the fan, so a big concern of mine was if the camera could compensate/color correct. Although this camera was better than the other model, in that it was clearer and adjusted for the yellow tint of the light bulb and brightened the image a little, it still wasn’t what I was hoping for in terms of auto correction. However the biggest issue and deal breaker for me, was the narrow field of view. I couldn’t find this anywhere on the website or box, but in the manual it lists it’s only 58-degrees, and I believe it. Although I don’t need it to see the entire room, this camera zooms in very close, almost like head and shoulder only. And when you turn of the “HD” option it gets even closer. Too close for my taste (the other was 70-degrees which makes a big difference). And as others had said, the On/Off button on the back doesn’t do anything. The only way to turn off the camera is to unplug the USB. And although I knew it didn’t come with a privacy cover, with the design of this camera, the lens sticks out of the body. So there’s no easy way to attach a 3rd party “stick on” cover (like a hinged toilet seat) or a piece of paper.Overall I’d say it’s decent for the money. But given the amount I’ll need to use it, and the type of calls I’ll been involved with for work, looks like I need to buy one of the more expensive models.

I purchased this camera for my work Zoom calls and meetings. I was worried I should have bought one more expensive just in case. This one seemed to have good reviews and although not the cheapest, was reasonably priced. I've had this about 5 months now and I am completely satisfied. The picture and sound are great (or at least no one has complained), which is necessary because I'm not just on the Zoom meetings, but am often presenting. The picture quality and ease of setup were awesome.

I've been participating in online classes on Zoom & the camera works great, including the microphone.

It is a nice looking device - however it does not look like the picture. The photo looks like a silver webcam and it is actually shiny metallic black with clear acrylic around it like a frame. Still nice looking and not too big - under 3 wide I think. I wish that the focus was automatic. It was really fuzzy and poor quality until I looked through the manual and saw that I could manually focus the camera. I worked perfect. The image is a bit bright - wish I could change that or saturation. I will be using the webcam for Zoom or Skype meetings so I would want the ability to tweak the brightness or saturation on the virtual meeting platform.I have Windows 10 and just plugged in the USB cable and Windows 10 automatically installed the drivers. No problem with that! The manual says that if you have Windows XP/Vista/7/8 you will need to download the software. It does not come with that software (built in or a mini disk) but the manual includes an URL to get the software.I wish manufacturers would give us buyers more choices that black hardware. I really wanted a white webcam with a white USB cord... Because I thought I was buying a pure silver webcam and it is obviously black, I am taking away two stars. I don't think the image is spectacular. I have a Logitech C610 from 2011 that the image looks the same. (I gave my daughter the Logitech for working from home when her work had all workers work from home)

Ordered it this afternoon, arrived about 7 PM, The instructions said "connect the webcam and wait until it recognizes the webcam". That took about 10 seconds. Good picture, it works as expected.It has an 'interesting' finger on the back that does a pretty good job of holding it on the top of the monitor.It is not autofocus, but the wide focal range is easy to nail with less than 1/2 turn.Yea, I'd buy another one.

We used it for our business to capture client's photos, so it faces out towards the client. Amazing quality, great little camera for photos and videos. The only thing we don't like is the attachment bracket is too bulky and not discrete.