wansview 1080P Webcam with Microphone

I needed a webcam for my Windows 10 desktop PC for video conferencing/meetings with work colleagues during the coronavirus lockdown. As I already own a Wansview wifi security camera, which I’m very pleased with, I decided to give this webcam a try and I’m so glad I did. The webcam has a fixed 1.5M (5ft) lead and comes in a small box with an instruction sheet. As the webcam is plug & play with Windows 10, setting up was very easy. Switch on PC, plug in webcam, job done. The webcam stays securely in place on top of my monitor thanks to the adjustable base. Even though my monitor has a thin bezel it was easy to adjust the base so the webcam doesn’t obscure any part of the screen. Getting the right angle was easy as well. The base can also be adjusted to be used off monitor on a desktop or shelf although I prefer the camera to be looking slightly down from above. The 1080p HD video is sharp and clear with accurate colour. Feedback from colleagues confirm the quality of both video, and sound from the built-in microphone. This webcam is far better than the webcam on my Windows 10 laptop. I’ve not needed to use the manual focus function as it works so well in automatic focus. Overall, I am very pleased with this webcam, it does everything I want of it. And at less than half the price of the cheapest webcam from other well-known brands, it’s a real bargain as well.

At the time I bought this item it was on offer for £13.87. I needed a camera for online school due to lockdown and so I proceeded to buy one, also I use this camera for discord. So ignoring the price, the camera quality is decent, so when there is good lighting, the camerea performs pretty well, actually not bad and pretty usable, I would say basically good. The exposure settings for this webcam is poor, stuggles alot to adjust so you can get blown out highlights quite frequently. In low light, like we are talking with a table lamp turned on, it is okay, defo usable, the issue comes with this weird artificating that comes with the webcam which covers a square portion of the top left of a 16:9 image. which I included an image of, but I don't really mind, I mean I did not pay more then £20 so its not a bother, so long as it provides a good enough image I don't mind. Also when the table lamp is on and in low light conditions, since my monitor is in front of me producing this white light, my face becauses way to exposed, like I become white, because of how over exposed the image is, since the camera struggles with exposure, along that note it struggles to auto focus alot, basically I think auto focus is non existant. But yeah if this camere is under £14 again, and you are looking for an affordable webcam that works decently well, yeah sure buy it. However if you are looking for a good presentable image where you look crisp, clean and sharp with good auto settings like auto focus and exposure, and all else I mentioned, I do not think you should buy this camera and you should go with one that is above £20 providing it has good picture quality, sorry if what I said is vauge but thats the best I can put it.

I needed a new webcam and so thought I’d try the Wansview 1080p webcam, as I already have a Wansview security camera which I’m very pleased with, and the Wansview support is terrific. Although you probably won’t need it. The only time I did need support it was actually all my fault – the security camera I had purchased from Wansview was switched off for a few months while doing some building work in that area, and when I re-installed it I had forgotten my password and I didn’t know how to reset the camera because I’d thrown the instructions away. DOH! And even though I was quite rude in my e-mail to Wansview (my bad), they responded immediately and dealt with my problem and got me up and running straight away. So, for that reason alone, I will always be confident buying Wansview items. Back to the Wansview 1080p webcam review. It’s a great little webcam, it was delivered in one day with Amazon Prime, and it was super easy to install. I’m running Windows 10 and I just hung the webcam on top of my monitor, plugged in the USB lead, which is nice and long, and it immediately showed up on my screen using the Windows 10 Camera app. So, from opening the box, until seeing my image on the screen, it took about 20 seconds in total. There is no need to read any instructions, just simply take it out of the box and plug it in – that’s it! The picture is very sharp and clear, much much clearer than my old Microsoft webcam, which is a LifeCam HD-3000 and it has a wider field of vision (I didn’t realise how fuzzy the old webcam image was until I got this new webcam). The Wansview webcam does have a slight fish-eye effect at the edges – this is probably due to the wider field of vision. It’s much brighter than my previous Microsoft webcam, and the automatic light compensation doesn’t keep changing like my Microsoft webcam tended to do most of the time. The image is just consistently lit at the same clear level and doesn’t keep going brighter or darker, although if you want to manually change that you can, but all the default settings are absolutely OK. The photo quality is good, 2.1MP 16:9 (1920 x 1080), and the video recording is good, 1080p 16:9 30fps with voice pickup via the built-in mic, although I did have to adjust the Windows volume settings for the Camera app to pick up my voice, but then again I had to do exactly the same thing with the Microsoft webcam to pick up my voice using the Windows Camera app. However, the mic picked up my voice very clearly when using the Skype for Business app on my PC without any intervention required. I think there may be an issue with the actual Windows Camera app when recording audio (its’ quieter than when using Skype), because it was the same for both the Microsoft webcam and the Wansview webcam – I need to investigate that further. All in all, I’m very happy with this easy to use Wansview 1080p webcam, it’s perfect for use with Skype for Business, which is the main reason I purchased it for, and I have no problem in recommending this webcam.

Like many other recent reviewers, I purchased this webcam to allow me to have better quality conference calls from my PC. In my case, I teach online dance classes on Zoom and was struggling with my old Logitech Quickcam, which had a maximum resolution of 640 x 480px, no automatic light adjustment and a fairly narrow field of view. I went for this product based on the 90 degree field of view, which is more than most other HD webcams. I knew from some reviews about the fish-eye effect on the lens, but was willing to put up with that in exchange for a wider field. Having tested the old and new webcam side to side, I am pleased with some things but not with others. Let's start with the positives: I was not disappointed with the picture quality, it's certainly much sharper and clearer than the Logitech and the lighting correction works very well. I'd say it's comparable to the cameras on budget phones and actually quite similar to the one on my kids' Kindle Fires, but nowhere near as good as my Huawei phone or my iPad - but then at this price I wouldn't expect a lens of that quality. I'm also happy with the manual focus adjustment on the lens, as auto-focus webcams are notoriously unreliable and I am constantly moving around the room, so I didn't want to risk being out of focus half the time. It's a shame that the webcam doesn't come with any software for adjusting the picture, because personally I would prefer to decrease saturation and contrast slightly, as the default settings look unnatural. The fish-eye effect is quite noticeable, probably a bit more than I expected. I am now questioning the benefit of having the extra width, when I wouldn't really want to use the edges of the camera to demonstrate any dance steps, as my body would look deformed. The most disappointing thing by far is the microphone. I had made a test video to demonstrate this, but my previous attempt at posting this review war rejected and I think it might be because of the background music I was playing, so I won't post it again. But trust me when I say that my Logitech webcam, which is a very old, low-cost model, has a far superior microphone, with much clearer sound even from far away. The Wansview's supposed "dual microphone" makes both music and voice sound muffled from close-up and almost inaudible from just 10 feet away - and this is with maximum volume set up in both Windows and Zoom itself, so it's impossible to make it any louder. The Logitech by contrast is set up at about 70% volume and it's much louder. I am not sure why so many reviewers are mentioning really clear sound, I may be doing something wrong but I don't think so as I've tried everything, and as I said without any software to make manual adjustments, I don't know what else could be done beyond pushing the volume to the max in Zoom's audio settings. I was quite annoyed by the red ON light but it was easy enough to cover it, and in fact attached to the front of the webcam was a small adhesive tab which I guess is meant for that very purpose, as it doesn't seem to serve any others. However I fashioned my own shield which still lets some light through, as from a privacy point of view it's good to have an indication of when the camera is on - I just don't want to be blinded by it! In conclusion, by combining the picture from this webcam with the sound from the old Logitech, I can make pretty decent Zoom calls and recordings, but I expect after lockdown this product will fall right down in price to somewhere around £25, which is what I think it's worth, if it weren't for the fact that branded webcams are impossible to get hold of at the moment. Otherwise I would have definitely gone for a new Logitech, which I suspect would have been 10 times better. Still, needs must...

I rarely bother to write reviews on stuff I buy, but now and again, something comes along that I really like and feel I can honestly recommend to others. This little Webcam was just one of those items! I had been looking around for quite a while for a decent quality webcam, especially as I've been at home much more than usual during the Covid19 lockdown and was finding my smartphone difficult to use with it's a small screen and poor resolution considering the increased amount of video calling I was doing using SKYPE ZOOM and WHATSAPP etc. I can now make these calls on my desktop computer with a decent-sized screen, and my contacts tell me the picture they receive from me is magnificent. I had used on occasion a cheap webcam that I purchased several years ago, but it was of dismal quality and half the time didn't work anyway. This little gem, on the other hand, worked perfectly within 5 seconds of plugging it into one of the USB ports on my desktop computer, requiring no software or any other setting up... it just worked instantly and all my programmes and apps found it instantly. The thing that really got me excited was the superb quality of the image. Clear sharp pictures, better than any webcam I've seen so far and a nice wide-angle lens makes for a decently framed picture without having to keep worrying whether I had moved out of the picture with the normal movement of my body. This was always a problem with the narrow view on my other cameras. It was also nice to see that the lens has a focus adjustment so if I use it on top of my smart television... it focusses perfectly from some 3 meters away as well. Colours are very realistic, and even when the lights were dimmed in the room, it still gave a good picture with nice colour rendering. The sound is very good as well, and I'm not sure, but it seems to be stereo, I will need to test that further, but it's certainly very good quality crisp and clear. The mounting clip fits on my computer monitor and television perfectly, holding the webcam securely in place and should fit any monitor etc. My only moan was the bright red LED on the front of the camera, but I soon sorted that out with a tiny piece of grey film which I attached over it to cut down the glare. The USB lead is quite long enough at approx 1.5 metres and fits any USB socket. The webcam arrived within 24 hours of ordering on AMAZON PRIME, well packaged in a plain brown box, and the instruction manual (leaflet), very basic but easily understandable was everything necessary if a little basic. But hey, all you have to do is plug it into a USB socket on your computer and that's it! So, in ending, I would unreservedly recommend this webcam to anyone looking for a decent quality camera with great picture and sound, very easy to set up and a reasonable price for what is a better than average quality webcam.