Rightly or wrongly I think it might eventually cause problems. Personally I don’t keep switching between stalk and no stalk. Actually I’m not aware of any product which does. But this is an economical device and it doesn’t have that feature. It would be great if the camera could be flipped aside easily when not videoconferencing and flipped back when needed. I’ve suggested that the option of a half-length stalk could be good. You can still switch to using the stalk on occasions when that’s more important. Used without the stalk it provides all the benefits except the eye contact with the viewer. My job is communication and what the viewer sees is worth inconveniencing myself for. To me this big sacrifice is absolutely worth it. So I’ve got the ball containing the camera obstructing my view of the screen. This means I need the camera in front of the screen, between me and it. The reason I use this camera is the importance of appearing to look at the viewer, not below, above or to one side. The result shows in presentations to the public, where the result is decisively better than other people get by just relying in their computer’s camera and mike. No need for earphones to prevent these problems, so visual communication is unencumbered by those. No problems with echo or feedback, which I think means the Logitech people have done clever stuff, and I think this is quite remarkable. I use a Røde microphone, so can’t comment on the mike in this device, but I find the loudspeaker sound perfectly adequate for incoming speech. For videoconferencing the image quality is visibly superior to that from a good computer’s built-in camera.

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