Over at EDN, [Brian Dipert] has been tearing down web cameras. A few months ago, he broke into a bargain basement camera. This time, he’s looking into a premium unit. Although we have to admit from some of what he reports, we are a little surprised at some of the corners cut. For example, it’s a 4K camera that doesn’t quite provide a 4K image. Despite a Sony CMOS sensor, [Brian] found the low-light performance to be poor. However, it does carry a much larger price tag than the previous camera examined.

Disassembling a premium webcam
https://www.edn.com/disassembling-a-premium-webcam/

Back in late April, EDN published my teardown of an entry-level webcam, Avaya’s Huddle HC010, at the time selling for $14.99 (but having been priced a few years earlier, in the midst of pandemic-induced home office equipment shortages, for nearly 10x that amount). In the intro to that piece, I briefly mentioned other, higher-end webcams, one of which was BenQ’s ideaCam S1 Plus and Pro series.