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Logitech unveiled its newest Brio 500 webcam, taking aim at the large workforce still stuck at home using Zoom and Teams. The Brio 500 is a sleek, feature-rich evolution of the Logitech c922 Pro. It offers the same core resolutions and frame rates: 1080p at 30 frames per second or 720p at 60fps. It also adds a host of improvements, including a new ultra-wide lens that allows for a more adjustable field-of-view with deeper zoom, auto-framing, and HDR support. Brio 500 RightLight 4 automatically adjusts to your environment, so you appear well-lit even in poor lighting conditions. The slick new cylindrical chassis facilitates some technical improvements, including a detachable mount that lets the camera spin 360 degrees. The Brio 500 takes on a more aesthetically inclined form: It’s a thin cylinder made of speckled matte plastic, available in three colours–off-white, a dark graphite, and very light rose. At 4.25 x 1.25 x 1.125 inches detached, or 4.25 x 2 x 2 inches with its mounting bracket, its footprint is slightly larger than the c920 series, because it’s much wider and a little taller but the rounded shape and smaller bracket feel less intrusive. The camera sits inside the chassis, so a rotating privacy shutter inside can cover the camera when you turn a dial on the side. The stereo microphones are now small slits in the housing, rather than a pair of speaker-like dotted panels on either end. All in all, it doesn’t stick out as much, which is saying something for a piece of gear that sits perched on top of a monitor in most setups.  an ultra-wide lens with a 90-degree field-of-view, so you can capture a very large area, should you want to capture a group of people, or get a whiteboard in the shot. Using Logitech’s webcam configuration software, Logi Tune, you can automatically adjust the lens to shoot in a 65-, 78-, or 90-degree FOV, and adjust the framing using the camera’s 4x digital zoom.

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