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> All in all, it's a good webcam, but they're picking wrong competitors. A modern mirrorless is too powerful for them, and MacBook's pinhole webcam is too good

> All in all, it's a good webcam, but they're picking wrong competitors. A modern mirrorless is too powerful for them, and MacBook's pinhole webcam is too good for its size. They need better marketing and targeting IMHO. I disagree. Their target market is the person who says, "I'm tired of looking lousy in my Zoom meetings, but I know nothing about cameras. What can I do to fix this?" Then they see the Macbook Webcam video and think, "that's how I look now", and they see the Opal and A7 videos and think, "that's how I'd like to look." Then they see the prices, where the Opal is in the "accessory" price range, and the A7 costs more than their laptop. And they're sold on the Opal.

bayindirh 5y ago
> Then they see the prices, where the Opal is in the "accessory" price range, and the A7 costs more than their laptop. And they're sold on the Opal. The thing is, you can't buy a new A7 (MK-I) today, and if you can buy one, it'd be around the same price of a brand new Opal. Or you can buy an Logitech Brio Ultra, and use that one. If you buy an even modestly priced Fuji APS-C camera, it'll blow Opal out of water. I'm not telling that Opal is bad hardware. It's modestly good hardware, ruined by bad marketing and wrong claims.