I'd so much rather pay for an actually good webcam. Tying up my phone is annoying and that screen holder contraption looks ridiculous. And I don't have an iPhon

I'd so much rather pay for an actually good webcam. Tying up my phone is annoying and that screen holder contraption looks ridiculous. And I don't have an iPhone. I'd really pay good money for a good desktop webcam with a great lens and sensor. All the upmarket options from the likes of Logitech and Microsoft are still total crap. Unfortunately all the current newcomers on the market seem to be using the same crap optical stacks but try to improve in software using stuff like machine learning. Even the Opal cam that's meant to fix this only uses an ancient pixel cam from 2016 and really heavy software (I don't want this as a FreeBSD user as it obviously won't work for me). The Lumina webcam uses the same tricks. I don't like heavy drivers on my computer and I just want my webcam to speak UVC. And a real food optical stack is still way better. Garbage in, garbage out.