I got one of https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MZQ6KVR/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MZQ6KVR/ That webcamera_usb amazon storefront is actually ELP,

I got one of https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MZQ6KVR/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MZQ6KVR/ That webcamera_usb amazon storefront is actually ELP, who is a big player in that kind of lower-end industrial/security/for small volume integration camera modules. Also sells directly through their website, through Aliexpress, etc. They do have a few no-bayer black and white options. Mine shipped from Shenzen via Hong Kong, but (now that I check tracking) took exactly a week to get to a midsize city in the US. The camera is adequate (I've done a fair amount of computational photography work recently, overly opinionated to follow), it's not hitting anything like the advertised high frame rate/low res modes in guvcview, but is making the 30-60fps higher res modes that matter for webcam use. It's USB2 and enumerated as UVC 1.0 so I can't say I'm surprised. The crop changes in somewhat surprising ways among the modes, I think the readout does a mixture of crop and binning or line skipping. It's not a nice Basler module or anything, but it costs less than 20% what the nominally-comparable offering from "good brands" would. The lens is ...eh, I have noticeable barrel distortion and vignetting, but its clear, doesn't have the annoying color corruption you sometimes see in cheap C/CS lenses, and the FoV is nice for webcam duty. It's a damn slight better than the old PS3 eye I was getting by with until it showed up, and being able to easily manually manipulate zoom/focus/aperture instead of hoping the auto does something good is great.