Now more than ever we need a really good webcam don't we especially if you're working from
home and you've got a lot of conference calls and you just need better more improved quality
and good audio too is very important with a camera now this is where this might come in play this is
the anchorwork b600 video bar now it does have its own leds at the top to make sure that you're
well lit and the quality is good it's controlled by ai so it will automatically adjust the white
balance giving you the best image quality the camera this is a 2k camera and it does have
a 95 degree field of view that's on the top setting there you can also scale and adjust
that down you can even get it to do what's called the solo cam mode where it will follow you around
a little bit which i'll go over in this video now the microphones it has there are four of
them they're built in it does have ai noise cancelling and there are two speakers either
side of it which are two watts and i will give you a sample of those how they sound
and some sample footage of course in both good light and low light and compare it to my laptop
so you can see the kind of difference you get from a external webcam versus an internal one
now in the box with the b600 video bar you will find this so it's an address to download the
software so it works on mac os and windows we do have a little bit of paperwork here quick start
guide and various other things then our power supply which is right here now it does use a
type c plug there is a type c to type c cable just in here too and then our various different power
plug adapters that you simply just slot in to the adapter right here so we've got an eu one us uk
so it is a very solid webcam it's a lot larger than i originally thought it was going to be
when i got it out of the box but great build quality very solid so this does the light
bar here act as a privacy shutter so if you do have it sitting or set up on top of a monitor
no one's going to be able to see through the camera even if they did somehow gain access to it
with that closed when you lift it up you see the led light strip at the top now that's controlled
with ai to get a good white balance so you're standing out and you're very clear we have touch
controls here capacitive for the brightness of that light and of course our camera which is 2k
now you can adjust the field of view by default the widest it is
is 95 and this little strip along the bottom we've got four microphones in total with their
voice radar is called so it should be able to pick up people up to two meters away on this mic here
just as clear as if they were sitting right next to it and talking to it which is great i will be
testing that out of course with the samples so here on the side we've got two side firing
speakers within here and that is to manually turn that led light at the top on or off and then on
the other side we'll have another speaker just in here i'll give you a sample in this video too of
course and then a dedicated button capacitive this one for the microphones to be able to mute those a
dedicated mute button which is great now the stand here at the bottom there is a thread in this so
the typical size you're able to then mount this on a tripod if you wanted to do so rubber on the
bottom it feels very nice and smooth the movement here and then rubber in the inside and this has a
texture to it so if you are using it with a laptop for example it shouldn't slip or move around there
is rubber just in the inside here too and that does move about now the back of it is where you'll
find our ports we've got the type c power in type c data and another usb port here on the back
and then the software side of things it is called anchor work the app now you don't have
to use it but in order to get the best out of this camera highly recommend that you do so mac os and
windows 11 which i am currently running here now it does have some firmware updates as you can see
those will come through they improve things and it will update and do all this by itself
just don't disconnect it when it's going to be going through that update you can see
right there it was downloading but i am on this version that's just a screenshot of it
so the software itself very straightforward you can see live preview of me right now of course you
can choose your resolution here over on the left you can adjust the angle and the frame if you're
uncertain of this you're able to go through and see here what exactly it means so solo frame mode
i'll demonstrate that in just a minute to you and you can even zoom in so that's cropping of course
but if you decided that now i want it to be moved around zoom a little bit i don't want something
in the background to be there then it's handy for that anti-flicker mode so to swap over to where we
have now the field of view so by default it is 78 degrees okay if it's in quite a decent amount and
65 degrees if you want to close the crop that's there and then 95 95 the the full field of view
that's a native field of view here and then it does have the 2k resolution 30 frames per second
it also incorporates auto focus and you'll see that when it starts up and i've not seen
any issues with the focus it locks on people's faces which is good and then the solo frame mode
see if i can demonstrate that now i'm centered fine now but if i was to move over to this side
you'll see the camera how it zoomed in and it's trying to just get me in the frame or keep me
in the frame should i say when i go back here see how it's panning a little bit and just keeping me
in the center once it sees that i'm more centered now it'll probably zoom back a little bit too so
this is a handy feature for people that move about a lot you're in a conference call perhaps you've
got a large desk and you move to cheer around a little could be handy so i'll put it back on
that's the default the 78 degrees here we'll have a look now on what other options we do have so
image quality settings you can adjust all of that and tweak it you can even flip the image okay if
you didn't like it you can mirror it now basically that's that's all it's doing just flipping it over
and then of course that light bar at the top so i would keep this normally on automatic i've got
it on automatic at the moment which it has decided that it's bright enough where i am and the lens is
bright enough too with this that it doesn't need the light but i can turn that off now and then
okay i've got that light bar on the top so you can adjust the color temperature you can also do this
with the ai mode if you set it on automatic and put it warm too if you want that's completely warm
cool and then adjust that brightness down to dark if you find it too overpowering or it's making it
look too white but again i would keep that on the automatic so that is the software those are the
settings we get which is i think for a webcam sufficient it's good that motor does have the
solo cam one to keep you in the shop but let's have a look at some sample footage now that i've
recorded directly with the anchor work b600 and we'll listen to the microphones and then later
to the built-in speakers and this is the 1440p setting that i have it set on now it has decided
that my lighting is sufficient enough to not use the led light bar at the top and the room
lights i've just got standard lighting on i have not turned on my powerful studio lights at all
ah good audio quality what you are listening to is the built-in for microphones which i do think is
excellent so this surpasses my laptop and even my other webcam quality by far here 1440p autofocus
the other ones i have don't have the focus and it's 30 frames per second
what i'm going to do now is turn off the lights in here make the lighting quite dim then we'll
see how it fares and if it's going to then use the led video bar lights at the top that it has
now looking at this image you probably wouldn't think that it's quite dim in here now that's
because it's turned on those led lights at the top really improving the quality
so let's see now how this does compare to my laptop's webcam that's built in
the difference as you can see is day and night in these conditions this is a huawei mate book 14 s
which does have for a laptop quite a good webcam but it's not looking good now is it it's grainy
and well it's only about 15 frames per second does not look anywhere near as smooth so there's a huge
difference in a built-in webcam which is quite a good one compared to the b600 from anchorwork
now it does have those stereo speakers either side of it and i think they sound better than most
people's laptops would most laptops have terrible speakers in them
and these are a step above that so here's a sample of those two speakers at a hundred percent volume
now has this snapdragon 8gen1 it's still actively cooled so there's that tiny little rgb fan in
there pushing out the hot air now my time testing and using it i think it is certainly a lot better
than most of the webcams that i've tested i'm talking about then external ones older logitech
models that i have this thing is certainly a huge step up in that image quality and clarity
going from say 720p or even a 1080p one now up to 2k just gives us a lot more detail there and
more is captured now the lighting on there with the automatic lighting with those leds at the
top works quite well you can adjust the white balance manually tweak it like i showed you
with the application which is good the speakers either side they're only two watt they're not
super powerful really loud no but i think they're still better than many laptops and they will be
better than even some older monitors and some monitors of course don't even have speakers built
into them so it does give you an option at least to have the speakers which is great now if you use
it on a laptop and especially a smaller laptop you've got to be very careful if your laptop
hinge is not a very strong hinge if it's quite loose and it's easy to just flop it right down
then the weight of this camera is one of the cons here it's it's a large camera and it is a little
bit on the heavy side so it can easily cause the whole screen to collapse as you can see now that's
happened to me so it is better i feel to use it on a tripod or of course where it is ideal is mounted
on top of a permanent monitor and you don't have to worry about privacy later on too because
if you finished using it you simply just fold down the light at the top the light bar and it's closed
and that's your privacy shutter even if someone was to hack your computer unfortunately that can
happen but hopefully it won't they can't or they could gain access to the camera but they wouldn't
actually be able to see anything and then you've got the button on the side to easily just mute it
straight away and it can control on the fly there the brightness just touching it so you don't need
to go into the application in tweak or change that over you can just do it straight away which
is good so it does have excellent build quality excellent image quality and just a huge step up
and performance from any laptop's built in webcam this is certainly so much better it's just that
the size of it and the weight of it is the only real con on the other is it does give you a type c
port to type c only so if you have an older laptop that doesn't have type c ports and you wanted to
use this or an older computer you will need to buy yourself or get yourself a type a to type c
cable but they're not that expensive very easy to get hold of so it's not really that much of
an issue there so thank you so much for watching my video here of the anchorwork b600 video bar