Elgato’s new 4K webcam lets you swap lens filters like a pro camera

Elgato is launching its Facecam 4K webcam today, which brings the terms of 4K solution and 60fps signaling down to $199.99. While the Facecam 4K is $100 little than the Facecam Pro, it besides has enactment for optional lens filters — a archetypal for a webcam.

The Facecam 4K volition enactment immoderate 49mm lens filter, allowing owners to use cinematic effects similar diffusion oregon trim reflections from glasses with circular polarizing (CPL) filters. Elgato is adjacent offering a escaped CPL filter with Facecam 4K orders done its ain store, oregon a privateness headdress that attaches conscionable similar a DSLR camera headdress does. You tin besides acquisition third-party macro, achromatic mist, and prima filters to wholly alteration the look of 4K recordings.

Elgato’s Facecam 4K uses Sony’s Starvis 2 CMOS sensor with a f/4.0 aperture, fixed focus, and Elgato premier lens. That means the Facecam Pro’s f/2.0 aperture volition inactive beryllium amended for low-light situations. Much similar the Facecam Pro, you tin grounds astatine up to 4K with 60fps oregon up to 4K with 30fps and HDR enabled. The Facecam 4K volition link implicit USB-C, has a 1/4-inch thread for mounting, and weighs 0.25 lbs (112 grams) without the show equine and cable.

Elgato is pairing its latest webcam with its Camera Hub bundle that lets you manually set ISO, exposure, and shutter velocity settings, arsenic good arsenic pan, tilt, and zoom to get the perfect harvest for a webcam feed. You tin besides prevention each of these settings straight to the camera’s built-in memory, truthful you don’t person to support Camera Hub running. If you person an Nvidia RTX graphics card, you tin besides get an improved DSLR-like depth-of-field effect with inheritance blur.

The Facecam 4K volition besides enactment with Elgato’s Prompter hardware, acknowledgment to a replacement backplate that volition beryllium disposable to acquisition from Elgato’s web store. Elgato is besides shipping Facecam 4K backplates with caller Prompter purchases, replacing the existing Facecam Pro backplate. This suggests that the Facecam 4K volition yet regenerate the Facecam Pro astatine a little terms point, overmuch similar however the company’s caller 4K S seizure instrumentality lowers the terms for 4K 60fps gameplay recording.

Elgato’s Facecam 4K is besides compatible with the Nintendo Switch 2, arsenic agelong arsenic you update the webcam’s firmware to mentation 2.32 oregon later. The Facecam 4K is disposable contiguous astatine $199.99 successful the US, £179.99 successful the UK, and €199.99 crossed Europe.