Razer Webcams: A Comprehensive Guide to the K series

Razer currently has four different webcams starting from the most budget to the most expensive there is the Razer k

x Kio Kio Pro and Kio Pro Ultra which also happens to be the best webcam on the market but we'll get to that in a

bit now all four of these webcams are compatible with Razer synapse and with the K Pro and K Pro Ultra specifically

you get some exclusive settings that you can only control here but you can control all the basic settings of these

webcams in obs also if you're wondering why I have not updated the firmware on my K Pro or K Pro Ultra it's because

Razer synapse is kind of notorious for having firmware updates that brick webcams so starting off this is the

Razer k x it records up to 1080p 30 frames per second it can also do 720p 60 if you want it but all these webcams can

I wouldn't bother anyway it's MJ pack format 82 de field of view it's one of the best webcams under $50 now of course

the price is going to depend on when you get it and where you get it so I've tagged each web Cam and also I have

links to all them in the description so that you can see their current pricing now the colors of this webcam are decent

they're even better than the original Kio but the grain it's pretty high especially in lower lighting cuz I do

have some pretty good Studio Lighting on but this really needs a ton of light and that kind of makes sense because the

sensor side of this is only 1/3 of an inch and you are going to need a decent amount of light for the autofocus to be

effective but even so it's really not that amazing on the KX the later devices from Razer have really been set so that

they focus on your face face but they can't really focus all that well on anything else so do keep that in mind if

you need the autofocus to work all of these do have their own little Quirk and I'll be talking about that the build is

basic non- detachable 60-in cable usba a it's all plastic it tilts vertically but there's no rotation the quarin tripod

threading is on the bottom of the monitor mount just like the rest of these webcams and here is the microphone

on the KX now while this webcam is very strong at its price point I've seen the original K drop down significantly in

price so now that might actually be worth considering over the Kio X so let's go ahead and get into that the

original razor Kio is also a 1080p 30 frames per second webcam same field of view 82° now the trick that this webcam

has is it has a ring light built right onto it and you twist it to make it brighter or dimmer now in this lighting

where it's pretty decent lighting got an aato key light and a key light air you're probably not going to really be

able to tell the difference if I turn this on yeah I am a little bit brighter but if I turn it off

can't really notice it too much so I'm going to go ahead and turn off my studio lights entirely and this is when you're

really going to be able to notice the effectiveness of this now I've adjusted the webcam settings to compensate for

the lack of light and yeah it actually does help cuz if I go ahead and turn this completely

off yeah you can barely see me at all so the light does make a little bit of a difference but if you're in a lighting

scenario where you have such little light then I would invest in getting some sort of light other than that the

build of the Kio is similar to the Kio X same length non- detachable cable usba a all plastic it tilts up and down no

rotation as far as the image quality it is significantly sharper than the k x but the colors aren't quite as good when

you look at the background you can't really tell cuz you don't have a real reference point but since I actually

live here I can see the white balance is a little bit off no matter how you adjust it it's either going to be a

little bit too greenish or a little bit too yellow so using automatic white balance might be the way to go the autof

focus on the original Kio it's not too bad the main issue is it really struggles when there's a lot of intense

light so if you have something up close to the camera and then there's going to be light reflecting off of It kind of

has issues with that now here's the microphone on the K it does really struggle with fan noise more than any of

the other microphones but of course I wouldn't use any of these microphones unless it's like an emergency if you can

find this device for under $50 then I would definitely recommend it now this is where things start to get really good

the Razer K Pro can record up to 1080p 60 frames per second uncompressed Yu y 2 so the motion is way more fluid on this

device and the colors are significantly better because of that Yi 2 and I can even adjust it and change the contrast

and stuff like this to make it look exactly how I want but I'm fine with it where it is right now the field of you

can be adjusted from 103° 90° and 80° you're going to have to do that in rer synapse I have it set to medium right

now I think that looks the most natural if you got it to wide then it's going to have a very extreme fisheye effect that

you might not be able to see it in this small preview window but at full screen it becomes a lot more apparent when you

see the edge of the screen like really warping and it looks weird just like the K Pro Ultra this can be screwed off of

its monitored amount if needed however this led to me eventually losing the kpr ultra's monitor mount entirely so maybe

just keep it on this device comes with a privacy cover that you can just put over the webcam itself also easy to lose the

wire is detachable 60 in braided USBC on one end and a on the other now while the Kio Pro does sacrifice some sharpness in

comparison to the original Kio the colors are a whole lot better and of course the 60fps is a massive deal

sensor is also a little bit bigger it's 1 over 2.8 in instead of 1/3 of an inch it has HDR which you could control in

synaps but unless you have an open window to your back like a very specific lighting scenario I personally don't

find that it's worth losing half your frames over having that effect now the autofocus of the K Pro isn't actually

terrible in the sense that it can't track stuff the issue is that it pulses a lot so it'll find something like my

face and then kind of pulse in and out when you are recording over a long period of time you just saw that right

there it tends to do that a lot it's really not sure where it really wants to prioritize is one prior to your face and

then if something moves it's going to pulse on that now switching over to the microphone of the K Pro I bought this

webcam at its launch price for $200 when it came out but I've seen this drop way way down so if you can find this for

under $100 which is where I've seen I've seen it as low as 80 bucks then I feel like this is currently the best webcam

under $100 right now now we have the the heavy hitter the K Pro Ultra is a dramatic leap beyond all the other three

Razer webcams but not just those it's way better than every other webcam that exists on the market now this can do 4K

30 frames per second mjpeg or 4K 24 frames per second uncompressed yui 2 additionally 1080p 60 frames per second

uncompressed yi2 now this is a 73° field of view by default it also has HDR just like the K Pro and some other unique

settings that you could change in RoR setups for example there's one that can reduce the fish eyye effect I actually

do have that on right now because there's a little bit of a Bend if you don't put that on the main thing that

sets this webcam apart from the others is the Optics there are a lot of 4K webcams out there's even one that does

60 frames per second as the Elgato face cam Pro but the reason that the K Pro Ultra looks better than all of those

other webcams is because of the parts inside of it this has a sensor of 1 over 1.2 in so the largest sensor of any

webcam on the market by far right now very close to the 1 in sensor on the Sony zv1 this combined with the amazing

F1 over 1.7 lens lets in a ton of light gives that kind of cinematic look and produces that boka effect or that blurry

background whereas you switch to something like the Razer Kio and you can still see all the stuff in the

background the same level of sharpness as me now the autofocus on this K Pro Ultra pul is a lot less than the K Pro

but it's also very hard to get to focus on anything that's not your face there I did it right there there are two

different autofocus modes that you can control in razor synaps but honestly this thing really is D in to have ai

face tracking because they don't want the same issue that the K Pro had the build is almost identical to the K Pro

just bigger it's got that same privacy cover that you can put on it but it has a secondary one a privacy shutter that's

under the lens that you can twist open or close mine came with a USB c2a cable braided detachable 60 in just like the K

Pro however I heard that the newer ones come with the longer cable now let me switch over to the mic of the K Pro

Ultra the K Pro Ultra is an endgame webcam if you want something that's still going to look great in 5 years

this is the device to get this is all four webcam side by side now the quality mostly mirrors the price though I will

say the best value option is probably going to be the original Kio simply because under $50 which I've seen it for

lately the sharpness just looks so much better than the Kio X so I say under $50 I go with the Kio under 100 go with the

K Pro and if you want the best of the best K Pro Ultra