Logitech Reach: A 'show & tell' camera experience

[@kelito_lopez]

That's a fitting example of how product management techniques can elevate quality of products! Well done, wish you a great commercial success!

[@hasanbakhtiar]

I think this is very necessary. It will be very useful in online lessons

[@phillippia]

Nah. Document cameras do the same thing and have for years now. This has better articulation but it does not justify 4 or 5 times the cost. This would be nice for no more than $200. It’s not even 4k.

[@StephanGelenscher]

Who directed/edited this video??? The first time I see this camera in action it is at 1:00 - and then just in an obscured over-shoulder view for a few seconds where someone is adjusting it... For someone who is "educational" it is mindboggeling, that you didn't start with your product in action??? It's at 1:44 first, that you see the first shot by the camera... And it is not in focus and overexposed???? I really want something like this.... But this presentation really made me feel, that I should build my own solution....

[@alexanderjaeger]

I tried to use the Logitech StreamCam for this purpose. But sadly I wasn't able to turn off the auto rotate function of the webcam. Every time I set a top down view, it constantly switches between portrait and landscape. The Logitech Reach seems to use the same camera as the Logitech StreamCam.

[@theanimaster]

This needs to have auto-tracking, panning, and focus; as well as 4K, 60fps for it to be viable for miniature painting tutorials - MAKE IT HAPPEN, LOGITECH!! At $400 upwards, there is no excuse as to why this wouldn’t be 4K when we have cellphone cameras and optics for this that are smaller, at 8K 120fps. Don’t ship an obsolete product!!

[@DarkSwordsman]

Wow they made an Elgato Facecam attached to a mic arm I bet the logitech software still doesn't allow you to have finer control over exposure/shutter or save settings to firmware

[@geraldpolymath]

When will this be available?

[@logitech]

Please refer to our official blog to know more: blog.logitech.com/2023/09/11/logitech-reach-the-flexible-show-and-tell-camera/

[@Muhammed.Yaseen]

I like how Logitech is honest about the camera quality. Clearly only for streaming.

[@Muhammed.Yaseen]

Hopefully affordable.

[@bananapeehole782]

That makes NO sense. At All.

[@Muhammed.Yaseen]

@@bananapeehole782 My comment or the camera?

[@bananapeehole782]

@@Muhammed.Yaseen U

[@Muhammed.Yaseen]

@@bananapeehole782 Ohh.. Sorry. What I meant to say was that the resolution of the camera is quite low. But what companies usually do in advertisements is that they show footage shot in a high quality camera and put a tiny disclaimer in the corner. But what Logitech did was that they showed the true resolution of the camera in their ad. And they didn't even try to hide that fact by the slightest. But because the camera is solely for streaming(Zoom, GoogleMeet), I guess this will be ample resolution. I hope I was clear this time, Banana.

[@ambiva]

Hmm not sure how practical it is for online piano lesson, if it has HDMI output then can be used with Blackmagic ATEM

[@DvalinGaming]

Could definitely consider this one, but I'm afraid it will cost way too much.

[@fabienneguglielmetti3265]

400 usd +/_

[@willxcore]

​@@fabienneguglielmetti3265it's only 1080p not 4k. if it's more than $250 i think it'll be priced way too high. the versatility of the mount might shoot it up to $300 tho. we'll see!

[@ScottSchramm]

Price? Release date?

[@vio7607]

This is so useful for artists wow!

[@lilkwarrior5561]

Awesome! Make a pro version with 4K@120hz/8K@60hz with Dolby Vision HDR and HDR10+ to be useful for high-end streaming and prosumer use cases too?

[@cheekandscott]

Price?

[@karthikreddy8567]

Thank you Logitech ❤

[@BonsaiDruid-qo9lo]

Waited a year for it, now I have it and I can't make it work. Downloaded Logitech GHub. Camera shows an image, but I can't record or take a picture!

[@fly2kazn]

Is that Francine Dee?

[@alcar32sharif]

So basically a "Unboxing" camera.

[@iSpike]

Nice 👍🏻

[@rohanglenmartin]

Now having it in my hands I can say "It was a good idea, badly executed". There is no one glaring thing you can point to and say “That’s what ruins this”, other than the lack of quality from the camera. It’s a series of small things that have been overlooked, and they all add up to a giant disappointment. My experience with it: - The pivot point of the vertical riser is looser than you’d expect. To make movement smooth (and to increase rigidity to reduce shaking) there should be a small amount of resistance, this is missing. This is especially annoying as this allows the USB cable to easily mess with its resting point. - Because the vertical pivot point is loose, there is some slop in it (the top of the vertical riser can move around by about half a centimetre)… as you can imagine this amplifies at the end of the boom arm and makes it sensitive to vibrations when shooting. - The USB cable is too rigid and too short. The provided extension is ok, but they really should have just put a port on the back of the camera and allowed us to swap the cable out. - The bearings of the boom arm stick in places. - The you can't lock the camera to a specific point on the boom arm, so if it's at an angle it will slide out of position. - The boom arm only rotates outward in a single direction. To get it to go in the other direction you have to swivel the upright 180 degrees and rotate the boom arm. This isn’t a big thing on its own, but combined with the rest of it, highlights the lack of thought put into the design. - The boom arm doesn’t lock at anything other than at a right angle. Two things here: - A basic resistance fit able to lock at any arc of movement wouldn’t have been hard, - There is also absolutely no option of being able to progress past right angle to a declination angle. Unfortunately either of these would have been useless given that you can’t lock the camera position on the boom arm. - The rotation control of the camera is just terrible! It feels cheap, sticking in some sections and rotating freely in others. This feels like poor quality manufacturing highlighting bad design. There are times I’ve experienced… it’s not backlash, but because it moves more freely in one direction than another in specific positions, it feels like there are spots of backlash. - The camera head movements (any of them, from rotation to the pitch and yaw provided by the resistance ball and socket) don’t have any tactile home points, this is true for all directions of movement… so good luck getting it back to true. - On the topic of the ball and socket joint at the end of the boom arm, the yaw angles are pathetic… maybe a couple of degrees. - On the topic of not having home points… the camera has an accelerometer in it to try and figure out its orientation (portrait/landscape). This works when it’s looking horizontally at a subject but has MAJOR issues flipping between portrait and landscape mode when filming top down. There doesn’t appear to be a way to disable this, and if there are any vibrations (which are common, see above) then it’ll bounce around between these two orientations like a rabbit on cocaine. - Sometimes it will get confused and display the video as landscape inside a portrait frame resulting in black bars. This continues until I power cycle the camera. This was probably an artefact of OBS, but it only happens after it's been flipping between orientations for a bit so I'm going to blame the camera. - The camera quality is… It’s not great. On both Mac and Windows it looks… like a cheap camera. I’m using my Logitech 920 as a reference so you can’t say that I’m comparing it to some high end set-up.

[@ThorMitskog]

sure looks like the CA Essential Webcam Flex

[@pictograph]

No, it doesn't look like it! You made me google that CA Essential Webcam Flex and I came up with a device that just attaches to the monitor and is not flexible at all like this one from Logitech. I hate liars!

[@VijayGandhinagar]

Logitech could have done a better job at cable management in this product. I don't like how the cable is dangling at the back of it.

[@benzed1618]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@bran7134]

I would say that's a bit of a reach and I say that's as far as I'll go with it. No but for real though, I'm reaching for my wallet. 😂

[@delkor007]

Is that an indian accent i hear ?

[@Jason.M]

Same question I have, sounds similar to Satya Nadella.

[@VijayGandhinagar]

His name is Gaurav. That's an Indian name. 😊

[@bodovoet]

Yes, the articulating arm is a nifty proven solution to an important problem. BUT, did Logitech seriously just put together a video full of corporate jargon that takes credit for inventing a centuries-old tool?! It's an articulating arm, that's it. It remains to be seen how sturdy and smooth the operation will be, and I'm pretty sure I want one, BUT do not claim you invented the articulating arm. Product marketing did not do well on this one.

[@realavx]

Get a $10 articulating arm for your camera.

[@JeanFrancoisPoulin]

Another overpriced Logitech product that will break after a month.