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I bought an Elgato CamLink instead... hooked it up to a DSLR I already owned, and it makes for a stunningly crisp and clear, high quality, webcam.

Of course, using a 42.4 Megapixel sensor and a Carl Zeiss Sonnar lens it would.

https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/cam-link-4k

Turns a HDMI input into a USB web cam.

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I bought it two weeks ago when the delivery delay was only a couple days, and I'm really happy of that purchase. For the price of the webcam I would have bought otherwise, I can enjoy the high quality of my photo gear and have a cool and versatile HDMI-to-USB adapter. For instance, I've used it yesterday to install a Raspberry Pi in a Picture-in-Picture fashion – no messing around with my monitors to find a suitable port !

These are out of stock, everywhere.

You can also use an hd60s which costs more but does the same thing (and offers pass through).

I used to use Gopro this way. The problem was, that Gopro runs on battery when turned on (even when not recording, just in monitor mode), but charges it only when the camera is off.

With my old battery, the sessions were... short. So I managed to snatch a Brio last week, and I'm much more satisfied.

This isn't correct for, at least GoPro 6 and newer. I often times will run my GoPro with an external battery pack when doing extremely long running time lapse videos. The camera can definitely be run on external power and record - minimally a Hero 6 Black and a Hero 8 black both can be used in this manner from personal experience.

Gopro 3 (black edition). I said the battery was old :) (it is the original one).

I’m using the elgato camlink as well and got one of these to keep my camera going — https://www.amazon.co.uk/AC-PW20-Adapter-Replacement-NP-FW50...

Super random question: I got a Razer Ripsaw HD (gaming capture card) and I tried capturing video from my Sony Alpha 7ii to use as a webcam and I keep getting weird banding. Doesn't happen when I try to record video on-camera. Anyone know what's happening?

Also since gamers don't care about color accuracy, I have a feeling they didn't give two shits about preservation of color accuracy in the Razer Ripsaw HD. The settings for color space is suepr whack.

Completely out of stock on Amazon (UK).

Supply chains really haven’t had a chance to react to the change in demand & won’t be able to until Chinese manufacturing has a chance to ramp up to meet demand I guess.

This looks incredible but as other posters have noted, is sold out everywhere. Any recommendations for similar products that might be available?

Even the Chinese HDMI-UVC adapters are out of stock, I ordered a decent looking one from Banggood ( https://www.banggood.com/1080P-HD-4K-60Hz-HDMI-to-USB3_1-Typ... ) that still showed a few in stock several weeks ago, it hasn't shipped and now shows they don't expect to have any for at least another week or two.

+1 for Elgato, I haven't used their CamLink but have had an excellent experience with their Eve products in my HomeKit setup.

If you have a USB cable for your DSLR/mirrorless, try SparkoCam - lets you stream your camera to your pc with no additional hardware

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