Last night I notice that a friend posted a link to.. Canon, they actually made a web
cam driver available for quite a few of their cameras. Now, it's only windows 10.
I don't really expect Mac to get it, but we'll see. I've been looking for some
type of webcam that's high quality without the expense of
buying a HDMI (capture device) and all that. Here are the list of cameras so far. This is BETA
software. Don't expect a lot out of it. But I tried it. We're gonna go over it... does work!
M50, M200, M6 mark II, no M5.. no M6.. but who knows we'll see maybe.
In the future. RP.. we've got the EOS R so that's good.
I have an M50 here in a cage, doesn't matter, but we'll hook it up!
And you can see it in action. Within the last
month I've been putting together some type of either streaming or recording of
tutorial set up with the PC.
Have a mount, different things and also some lights
So if you're looking to do something similar...
And a microphone arm for a little cardioid
microphone. Goes to the PC. In this case this webcam for the M50 does not push
audio at the moment. In the case of the m50 it's a micro USB. I have a really long USB
cable. It's worked just fine.
Get the software, of course, go to the page
for your camera. See the list of cameras. Go to the M50 in this case. And then it says
EOS Webcam Utility BETA. I already downloaded it.. installed it. Just comes as
a zip file. Inside there you have the MSI installer. And run it. It just goes in the
background. It's a driver. There's no interface to it. When I turn on the camera...
One issue is that if you have the EOS Utility, you want to disable this. It's
not going to work with this webcam stuff. It interferes, so I'm going to exit
out of the EOS Utility. Down in your icon area for things that are running.
You have to quit that.
I have the cameras set to video mode in this case. Should
work better. I noticed you'll get black bars with
other modes. I did try this camera application in Windows 10. It doesn't see
the camera, but I do use OBS. Which is for recording, streaming.. And I also use it to
record my tutorial videos. And that does work. Here is OBS, the general idea is
that you want to add to the capture device in this sources area. I have a
display capture. Which is the screen, but I'm gonna go into add and then video
capture device. From there, just hit a new one...
It shows up. It sees it. It's working! which is good.
I did notice that I'm not able to do two M50s at the same time.
You can see that it's not going to work. It gets confused. Now it switched to the one
behind me. Hopefully in the future they'll be able to fix that, but you get
the idea. is that you're only gonna have one M50 at the moment. Let me see if I
turn it off. Maybe I'll switch back. Yeah, that's good. At least it'll automatically
switch between the two. So that's better than nothing. Very cool I'm gonna
definitely use this. Figure out how it does... Actually bought a second AC adapter,
DC coupler. Different brand this time it's not the Kapaxen one that I have.
But we'll see if that works decently well. Canon, for whatever reason,
All of their AC adapters are really expensive. Plus, they're never in stock.
I don't understand what's going on with that. But anyways, once you're in
there you can just put it on the screen. So if we
switched the camera to a photo mode. You'll see that there are black bars on
the sides. So you definitely want to be in video mode on the M50 for it to work.
we're in OBS now recording. We've got the microphone here and there might be some
type of delay with what's on screen versus what's being said with the
microphone. You know just that in OBS. They do have an offset. I don't know where it is
off-hand but we'll check that out maybe in the future.
For the camera I have it in full manual mode.
And then 1/60 of a second for the shutter speed. I have it at 29.97
frames a second for actual video. And whatever else. You can do auto ISO or
fixed. And that works nicely. With this it's just double the frame rate. Usually it'll
look decent with blur in the video. So something to keep in mind. Just leave it
like that. So if you're using Windows. You want to do something with that. One: Get
the DC coupler AC adapter. Two: If you've got the M50, the M200... you can actually...
With the M200 you can do clean HDMI without big hassles. So that's something
to consider. But then you have to buy the capture device. That.. ahh.. I don't know but...
Anyways, with the M50 it does work.
Really cool. I'm gonna use this a lot.
Hope you enjoyed this quick look
Scott of Photography Banzai, thanks!