This camera came well-reviewed so I took a chance on it, but have been a bit underwhelmed, quite frankly.
I like the ability to choose between three Fields of View (plus another setting that locks onto your face), but struggle endlessly with the autofocus feature, which wants to pin focus on the background no matter how prominent things are in the foreground (myself included). As a result I end up slightly blurry, but my office is in stark focus!
In addition, every time I use the camera it has an entirely new color/white balance. Sometimes everything has a yellowy "wash," other times it's purplish, and other times the contrast turns my Caucasian skin into a ghostly white while the background is normal. I have apple green wall paint which randomly appears a shocking green/yellow one day and olive green the next. Basically, every time I use the camera — *every time* — I need to open the Ankerwork app and fiddle with various dials for a few minutes before eventually giving up and saying "that's good enough." I know ambient light (natural light, direct sunlight, reflected sunlight, "warm" light bulbs, fluorescent lights, and so on) can have a huge impact, but I see this variance take place under the same lighting conditions, and in fact in the *same session* if I quit the camera or browser and re-open it!
My third main disappointment is in how the AI manipulates the image, creating that telltale "smooth" artificial appearance you see in AI art. It's a subtle effect, but it's there if you look close enough. Images rendered by the camera have a fake look to them, almost as if I asked Midjourney to create it from a prompt.
I was mainly attracted to this camera for the adjustable field of view but now I think I'll see if I'm still in the return policy window and then look for something else.
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