Great article. My favorite part is that the author advises against overly complicated setups and has some very realistic recommendations instead: > The strange

Great article. My favorite part is that the author advises against overly complicated setups and has some very realistic recommendations instead: > The strange video you see at the top of this post was filmed with this setup. One that I actively recommended against to any fellow remoter. Particularly folks who aren’t into photography or videography. It’s cumbersome, complex, and requires constant fidgeting to keep the camera on, obtain a consistent color temperature, or prevent automatic focus hunting due to shallow depth of field. This is a common theme among people with overly complicated setups: Looks and sounds great when it works, but they're fighting with their setup in every other meeting: Focus issues, automatic power off problems, photographic cameras overheating because they weren't designed for long streams, audio issues as they work to select the microphone they want instead of something else, and so on. This page recommends two excellent webcam-style USB cameras that won't deliver the professional-looking blurred background images, but they will just work when you plug them in and they won't be full of surprises. That's more valuable than a blurred background or crisp 4K video through expensive lenses when you're just a small H.265 compressed square on someone's screen.