So check out the OBSBot Meet 2, which is probably, maybe one of the world’s smallest 4K webcams right now which is pretty impressive. It’s been made with content creators in mind, whether it’s for horizontal YouTube-style videos or gaming livestreams on Twitch or vertical aspect ratio TikTok and Reel-like content, this camera covers it all. It comes in at £129 right now which when compared to other high-end webcams from Elgato and Logitech isn’t too bad at all, and does come in a number of colours. I’ve got the grey one here to check out, so let’s dive in.
The interesting thing here about the OBSBot Meet 2 is its size. For a webcam, it’s absolutely tiny and although I’ve not seen the original Meet webcam except in videos online, so I’ve got no real frame of reference. Up against my Elgato Cam, it’s tiny though which is pretty cool to see. The camera is housed in a small grey metal box measuring 56x44x32mm, with a USB Type-C port on the back of it, and being metal, it’s magnetic so it can stick to the monitor mount easily in a landscape or portrait orientation. This is definitely advantageous depending on the content you want to create, and now that OBS has a vertical recording functionality, it makes it easy to create vertical content for TikTok.
The lens of course is very small but don’t be put off, it’s got a half-inch CMOS sensor with an f/1.8 aperture which helps when capturing shots in low light and I must say the quality of this camera quality is pretty stunning to say the least. It can shoot up to a 4K image at 60fps, though you can opt to film in 720p too at 30 fps if you haven’t got the upload speed for higher resolutions. The camera is also capable of a 4x digital zoom and a 79.4-degree field of view which coming from my Elgato webcam is a little narrow which is a shame to see. You’ve got autofocus and manual focus mode on the Meet 2, but I did opt for autofocus for almost 100% of the time just to ensure I was in focus for as much as possible which worked well and was very accurate thanks to the phase detect technology and when I was sitting here streaming and creating content, I didn’t have a problem being in focus at all, though when I was further away from the camera using the autoframing AI feature, focus became a bit hit and miss. Check this out.
The Meet 2 to get a bit technical right now has a 10cm minimum focus distance which also makes the camera perfect for those top-down flat lays if you’re someone who likes to document their drawings or unboxings. There’s a tripod mount on the monitor bracket to take advantage of too. It can produce an HDR image which we’ll take a look at in a moment, and an ISO range of 100-6400. Avoid higher ISOs though because things do get a little grainy. It has a 3-stop exposure compensation if you opt for auto-exposure and its shutter speed ranges from 1/6400 right down to 1/30, I kept mine most of the time at 1/60 as I was filming at a lower fps so didn’t need the extra shutter speed. Of course, with filming a general rule is to film at double the shutter speed of your frame rate. So if you’re at 30fps, stick to 1/60, and if you’re at 60fps, set it to 1/120.
There are two omnidirectional microphones built into this camera, but don’t use them. They’re awful. Just saying. The housing is tiny, so it’s no surprise the microphones are going to have limited quality to them. If you’re going to be using something like this for a live stream, then I guess most people are going to have some kind of microphone setup, like my Wave DX on the desk behind me/ Okay, speaking of my desk and how I’m using it, let’s jump over and run through my settings in the Meet 2 software and how I’ve set it up in OBS.
The OBSBot Meet 2 is an extremely easy webcam to use and integrate onto your gaming setup and can produce a decent image if you’re going to be using the camera for content creation or livestreaming. Its size is also something to behold, being as small as it is, and coming from my Elgato Facecam, which again features a stunning image too I can’t say it doesn’t, the size is a bit intrusive by comparison. Also what Is great about the Meet 2 is the cost. It’s significantly cheaper than the newest Elgato Facecam out there and the other “streaming” related webcams from the likes of Logitech, which is a huge bonus in my book, and it’s also versatile enough to suit all types of content creation from landscape streams and YouTube videos to vertical in-home TikTok and Reel type content thanks to the magnetic base on the clamp.
