New Years Day Evening Open Thread

Happy New Year!

I spent my first day of it at work, and for the most part it was pretty quiet. I’ve spent the evening researching webcams, a co-worker of mine is getting into livestreaming, and he needs a decent camera. I have a Logitech C920 that I’ve been using in private with select friends for a few years short of a decade, and it’s a good enough camera that I didn’t feel like getting a better one despite the 30FPS framerate limit and the inability to cheat my way around it. I was going to put  the money towards one of Logitech’s higher end streaming cameras, but after doing some research I’ve found my new EOS Rebel T7i  actually has the capability of being seen as a webcam! I think I’ll have to play around with that this weekend, because if that works properly I can have a super professional setup with a proper camera and microphone. I would just need to find a good mounting setup, this camera is designed to be DUMMY THICC, and I don’t want something that would crumble if you even so much as think of sneezing. It needs to be a robust mount for a robust setup. For fun I should also check out other lens filters, just to see what they have available.

Methinks I’ll be spending a little quality time with my new camera this weekend.

Ready to stream!

After numerous experiments I think I’m finally ready to do some serious-ish streaming. Did some final experiments earlier with some friends watching once again. Even got FaceRig setup so people could see my… face? 😛 I will need a better camera for it though, the one I currently use is an old Sony Handycam that takes old digital tapes. You can tell it’s old because it still uses FireWire. 😛 Still a good camera though! But unfortunately I don’t use it anymore since it’s low res. I’ll probably get a 1080p Logitech of some kind so that I’ll have better face tracking and overall better clarity.

More things and stuff

Bought a new camera tonight. It’s a Sony DSC-WX350 with 18.2 megapixels and a nice 20x optical zoom. Got a good deal on ebay as per usual. Should be a nice replacement for my current 7.2 megapixel Sony. It’s still a nice camera but I wanted something more high def.

It should arrive on my birthday. A nice little treat for myself. 🙂