Razer Kiyo Webcam Review: Perfect Solution for Aspiring Streamers

a while back razor release an interesting webcam that had a ring light built into it it is a razor keel kyl q

either one of those stay with me so this right here is the razor Q I'm gonna go ahead and call it Q might be

kind of doesn't sound right gonna kill so the razor kill is this one right here as you can see it's kind of a beefy

solidly built webcam this is the sort of melt that it has a sort of a clamping mechanism and I believe it is a 720p max

resolution but it should be a good 720p especially for streaming you'd have a little box and 1080p anything really to

high resolution there becomes a necessary so something like this would be perfect for a smaller scales setup

I'll go ahead and show you guys my lighting setup when I stream or shoot or do any of that stuff and you'll see that

the difference between this and another lighting setup and or no lighting other than regular room lighting could be kind

of a significant thing here's a closer look at the webcam and as you can see it's got a nice round style to it not

like a rectangle like most webcams and there's a closer look at the base kind of a nice set up a little clamp done and

got a little puck thing going on which i think is cool so yeah that's the cam close-up okay so here we are looking at

the lighting setup in my office so tripod right there where I shoot sitting right there but with my light

right there so the lights right on me there and it reflects throughout the room hopes that I have a mirror for the

closet door here so it helps balance the light around I have a ceiling light up there always on and as well as a ring

light over here in the corner shining right behind the c920 that I have right there so that provides some

pretty good lighting overall and I'll show you guys how that looks right now okay

I'm gonna be bouncing between the cameras here and so I have both cameras side by side on the top of my monitor I

try to get the color settings to match as best I could but admittedly I'm not much for like color correction or camera

stuff in general so I'm just trying to give you an average users view point as to how good these look

and to me both cameras look great personally I think the image quality of the c920 is a little bit better but but

they both deliberate in their own way it seems that the there's a little bit more detail Wow I guess if you look at my

stubble there's more detail and clarity in the razor then there isn't a c920 but the image of the c920 also has like a

good look to it so yeah the it's it it's a really good camera I mean going between the two the razor definitely has

its impressive features but the color reproduction in it I don't know if it's my monitor or something like that it

seems - it was just tough to try to get it to look what I felt was natural-looking it seems to have a

yellowish hue to it maybe with some more tuning through OBS which is what I'm using to show this right now in the

camera stuff all the sliders and such I had to mess with the gain a lot and the exposure try to get stuff to match up

there try to get as good of a comparison for you guys as I could they're both at 1280 by 720 right now so

720p FPS is set to just match output fps just a basic camera setup I know maybe earlier I mentioned that the razor is

only a 720p camera but I was wrong about that it's 720p 60 or 1080p 30 just like the

c920 so they're both pretty competitive with each other from what it looks like here so now I'm going to do a comparison

with the ring light on the razor let me go ahead and get that fired up okay so here I am with the razor ring

light turned on on the key oh and it does pretty well now I had manually set the exposure and stuff like that if I

set it back to auto it'll probably go crazy but let me go ahead and do that for you guys I'll show you now the c920

is picking up pretty good but as you can see here at low-light performance it's just a little bit of light is better on

the razor given the settings that I put in it versus the c920 but let's switch both - to automatic and then see how

that goes so of the c920 down here there's this 9:20 configure video oh yeah the c920 so I'm gonna put that on

auto white balance in the auto game and you see it brightened up a whole lot just off of that so if you have that the

reason that it was looking the way it was before is because that's so much lightened room had to turn those things

down and right now since there's a lot less light in the room it has it's automatically gaining up so let's go

over to the eraser configure video go back over here to gain so you know I just have the basic stuff here so if I

go to exposure on automatic you see that one brighten up a whole lot to now that one is brightening brightening up a

whole lot and it's actually to the point where you'd want to turn it down a little bit

no fortunately about the razor kiddo is it comes with the ring around the light that lets you and actually turn the

brightness down a little bit so if this is too much without having to mess with the settings inside of OBS you can just

reach up to the ring and turn it down so I have it super low right now I turn it down to where it's almost nearly off as

you can see that's off and that's barely on and that's almost perfect right there and you can see the c920 struggling at

this point what this is nearly perfect now I'm gonna go ahead and turn the light to the room off and see how you

guys like that so this is just the regular room light off of the ceiling fan up top generally if you're in a room

you're gonna want to have the lightning on in the room not counting that for the room lighting but for the sake of

comparison there we go now if you're in a completely dark room that ring light where it is is pretty good even on the

low setting so it's actually its brightness is super good the c920 barely picking out my face here and now if we

want to go to 100% no light then let's go ahead and go here this is automatic performance here the c920 no longer can

even grab focus of me and the razor well it seems to be tuned for this because it's still perfectly focused on me base

off the glow right off of the screen so really happy with that kind of performance low-light performance on

this on this razor webcam is fantastic and it actually does pretty well just turning it back on check that out

check that out so let's see let's go full screen again see check that out guys on automatic settings here at 1280

by 720 I mean it is noisy but it's getting you so if you wanted to not have to disturb a lot of people or you're in

a more of a common area and they want the lights off and you want them on well here's your balance right here the ring

line off the razor q actually is pretty spectacular as a standalone unit like that so there you have it the comparison

between the c920 and the razor keel comes off like a pretty favorable for the keel if I must say so myself

especially if you don't have a really good room lighting setup it helps but also helpful that it works really well

in low light as it is and the ring light really helps it the dial on the top of it is also pretty helpful in terms of

being able to dial down the brightness or to dial it up depending on your settings so I thought that was really

cool it's a really cool idea and really cool product from Razer and I hope they keep coming up with stuff like this

because for your aspiring streamer it's a pretty useful tool pretty useful piece of little tech so-so

get the thumbs up for me and definitely if you're looking into streaming go for one of these if it's in your budget in

the c920 still a classic staple of streaming but it requires a little bit more if you want it to look really good

whereas you can get away with a bit less but with the Razer kyo so you can weigh your decision there because you know

one's gonna require a little bit more money to get everything set up right whereas the Razer kill is almost good as

an all-in-one webcam solution for streaming not quite there yet but just about so it's as close as you're gonna

get anyways I hope you guys enjoyed this video give a thumbs up if you liked it subscribe for more we always have more

coming you guys in the next video bye [Music]

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