N680 1080P Business Webcam with Microphone, Software and Privacy Cover, AutoFocus, Streaming USB Web Camera, for Online Class, Zoom Meeting Skype Facetime Teams, PC Mac Laptop Desktop

What an outstanding webcam! It just looks spectacular for it's price. it's as easy as it can be to install, just plug and use. It does have a software that is hit or miss with some users, which let's you control basic things for the camera like the visuals, zoom, auto focus and more, but these can also be controlled from windows. It's very compact in size and I've been using it since 2021, so it's as durable as it could be for a webcam. The mic on these never sounds great as expected, but it's acceptable. It comes with a lid that you can slide easily and smoothly to cover the camera. In the end, it served well for the 2020-2024 era and for talking with my friends.

My co-worker needed a camera for his zoom meetings. His crappy computer had a camera but no microphone, so he had to logon on zoom on the computer for video, and logon to zoom via phone for sound. He came to me looking for a solution, a zoom camera that would also have sound, but a picture that was better than the usual. He didn't want too much distortion on the camera, plus he wanted a little clearer picture than he was seeing from some of the other board members. There is a wide range of cameras and thus, prices out there, $20-$3,500. Most of the $20 cameras have video options and resolution that leaves something to be desired, so we went up to this tier $40-$55 cost. At this range, most of the cameras have 1080p, and given most people monitors and screens, that is more than enough resolution for a meeting. This camera is great because it is truly plug and play. About a half hour before his zoom meeting, my co-worker had me physically mount the camera on top of his monitor, but he (technology illiterate) did most of the hook up to computer, which basically amounted to plugging the cable into a free USB port. That was it. The 7 year-old PC he uses recognized the camera right away and he was off to the races. Everyone noticed right away how clear he was and the camera is wide enough to encompass his whole cubicle, so not too wide. He remained distortion free in the middle and the sound was excellent, very clear and undistorted. He couldn't be happier with my choice and having spent a little more money. This camera is a good value if you are looking for a good video camera that focuses correctly and responsive microphone that is truly plug and play (for a PC, at least).

Very good camera for the price. The video quality is just OK, which is why I rate this a 4 star item. But ease of installation, functionality and integration with Windows Hello makes this a great inexpensive option for someone looking for an external webcam. I do wish it had its own built in light source, but again, for the price, it's hard to complain too much.

This camera had no business being this good, yet here we are. Video quality is sharp and clean for 1080p. Not “marketing 1080p,” but actually looks good on calls and recordings. The Windows Hello feature is the real star. Plug it in, Windows sees it instantly, face scan done, no drivers, no software circus, no reboot rituals. It just works, which in 2026 is apparently a luxury feature. The automatic privacy shutter is excellent. It physically closes when the camera is not in use, none of that fake software-only “trust us bro” privacy. You can see it close. You can hear it snap shut. Very reassuring in a world full of glowing laptop eyes. Microphone is perfectly fine for calls. Not podcast-grade, but clear and usable, which is the job. Facial enhancement is subtle and doesn’t turn you into a wax figure, so points for restraint. What really annoyed me is that this is every bit as good as a Logitech webcam I paid about $50 more for at work. Same usability, same practical quality, minus the brand tax. Build quality feels solid, not flimsy bargain-bin plastic. Bottom line: excellent camera, stupidly easy setup, rock-solid Windows Hello, real privacy shutter, and strong value for the money. Pleasantly surprised, mildly irritated I overpaid elsewhere. The only complaint I have is that it attached to a monitor like every other webcam, with the dumb triangle posture mount that doesn't really work well at all, but it's as well executed as any other. As far as portability, it's plug and play so you can't get much better than that. If you need it for business and windows hello, buy it, you won't regret the purchase.

I mostly use webcams for video conferencing in my two businesses that are completely remote. I have a lot of video meetings and was tired of my old webcam (one of the most popular 1080p webcams) often doing this annoying rapid brightening and dimming. It was really distracting and I imagine was an issue with the autofocus so I wanted to try out another camera to see if it would be better. I was ready to return this product if it wasn't noticeably better in meetings, as I really want to be able to stay focused and not lose my train of thought when speaking with employees. I was actually really pleasantly surprised with how nice this new camera is. I feel like I'm professional streamer when I'm using this camera. Part of that feeling is that the camera uses a wide lens capture which basically is more zoomed out and captures a wider perspective of the room. I really love this because it captures so much more of me (rather than just a zoomed in headshot) without being too "up close and personal." I included a picture taken using my old 1080p webcam (more zoomed in) and a picture of this new 4k one (more zoomed out, though you can easily adjust the zoom using the remote). The quality improvement is noticeable in the pictures, but even more so when you add movement with the video. Another thing I REALLY appreciate is that I often use a background or a blurred background screen so no one can see into the room behind me, and the higher quality camera results in a much smoother execution of this as the edges of my body in the image aren't all blurred and fuzzy (both Zoom and Google Meet). I also like that this comes with a long cable, which is a MUST for me since I have a standing desk. The only downsides I recognized are that it only swivels up and down, but doesn't swivel to the left or right (you can see in one of the pictures, I've swiveled my old camera far to the left), and that relative to my old camera, it's more pricey. It comes with a remote which I don't find useful and seems like a waste, but I imagine that it's appreciated by streamers as I don't have much use for it (though it was fun to play around with, zooming in and setting a preset to zoom in and making a reaction like Nickmercs or something haha) Overall, the quality of this 4k camera is noticeably better, as expected, and I haven't had ANY issues with the autofocus like my old camera. Despite it being expensive, this is a must-have for anyone who is streaming seriously, and highly recommend for business people who spend a lot of time in work meetings and don't want to deal with the annoyances of a low quality camera

UPDATE a few weeks later: THEY FIXED THE PROBLEM! I am super impressed. Having written the detailed review below, about 2 weeks later I received an email from the company saying that their engineers had read my review and were working hard to resolve the bug. He said they now had a firmware update that should fix it, and he sent me a link to the instructions and the updated firmware. I installed the firmware, and then waited a few days for my normal usage of the camera. I did end up attending a few online meetings. THE PROBLEM IS GONE! The camera now remembers your saved "zoom level" and other settings and does not "flash" to a fully zoomed-out view at the start of every meeting. I am now very happy with this camera without caveats - as I noted in my original review (below), it was surprisingly not easy to find a camera with full and easy-to-use zoom - and clearly this company is highly responsive. Congratulations. Back to 5 stars! My original review is below. ---ORIGINAL REVIEW BELOW--- To start off, I investigated long and hard for a 4K camera with a "zoom in/out" and "pan" feature that was smooth and continuous and worked directly from the camera itself via a remote control (not the OS). It was surprisingly difficult to find a camera that doesn't zoom in/out in "5 levels" or whatever. This camera does say "10x", bla bla bla, and it's hard to even know what these "5x", "10x" even mean. That's part of what makes it hard to get this figured out. But, this camera fits the bill perfectly in this regard - great 4K camera with smooth zoom and pan and the zoom allows you to zoom way in and out (both in and out) for a very zoomed-in view or a wide fairly panoramic view of your background. This camera fits the bill in all the above ways. It would be such a great camera. But it has a flaw that for me finally necessitated I give up on this camera and get another one. Despite having a "set" button that supposedly memorizes the last zoom level, this feature simply fails to work until you click at least once on one of the zoom buttons on the camera. The moment you click on a zoom button, the camera snaps to the most recent saved setting (which is correct). The problem is that it always starts every online meeting fully zoomed out and requires you to click on one of the zoom buttons for it to snap to the correct zoom. To be clear, it will switch to "fully zoomed out" right at the key moment, when a meeting starts and the camera turns on in the meeting app, even if one minute before in the test it was at the right zoom level. You have to be holding the remote in your hand, and once it enters the meeting, as quickly as you can you need to hit one of the zoom buttons for it to snap to the remembered setting. That means that everyone in the meeting gets to see you in fully zoomed-out state for just a moment, at the key moment when you first appear in the meeting and everybody is glancing over at your rectangle anyways. I have a very messy background and it would be fine if this feature just worked and remembered my zoom level. But it doesn't. Everybody, in every meeting, gets to see my messy background for a moment while I rush to press one of the "zoom" buttons to get it to snap to the remembered setting. This is usually OK in an informal meeting, but I sometimes do have meetings with higher-up folks where it is critical that this not happen. For this reason, I simply cannot continue using this camera. Too bad, because otherwise it has everything I need.

Review: NexiGo N970P 4K Webcam: A Brief Comparison to the Logitech BRIO and NexiGo N960E FHD Webcams Disclosure statement: While no bias was intended for this review, I cannot rule out its possibility. The primary reason I am writing this review is because I joined the NexiGo Product Trial Program. As an incentive for writing an “honest, unbiased review” (words chosen in NexiGo’s emailed instructions to me), NexiGo will reimburse me for the cost of the N970P (which I bought on sale at Amazon for $169.99). That said, I believe this to be a fairly objective review. I have been (and continue to be) a HUGE Logitech fan because of the unparalleled quality of their keyboards, mice, and webcams. In fact, I am writing this review using a Logitech K380 wireless keyboard and the MX Master 3 mouse. Both are fantastic. And recently I achieved a pretty significant goal of saving up sufficient money to purchase a laptop with the computing power large enough to handle the Logitech BRIO webcam. (My previous laptops would quickly freeze up when tasked with handling the processing of the BRIO.) That day was special and was similar to the phenomenon of upscaling my TV signal from the grainy non-digital antenna signal to digital HD. Well, that day was somehow eventually improved upon in early May of 2022 when I sifted through Amazon’s webcam offerings and came across a brand of webcams I had never heard of - the Nexigo. At the time I was quite happy with my BRIO webcam. The only reason I bought the NexiGo N960E FHD webcam was to see how superior the BRIO was to this new competitor. Note that this is not the webcam of central focus in this review. But when I received the N960E and plugged it in and noted how VERY close it performed next to the BRIO, my interest in the NexiGo brand was established. When I came across an invitation to try other Nexigo devices, I jumped at the opportunity but had no expectation of gaining entry to this program. But on May 19th when I somehow qualified for testing, I was afforded the opportunity to try the N970P 4K Webcam, which appeared to be the big, big brother of my N960E webcam. All I had to do was buy it off of Amazon, write a review, and get reimbursed after proving I had bought the webcam and written a review. Here is a brief summary of my experience with the NexiGo N970P thus far… Upon unpacking the N970P, I was most affected by its monstrous size, at least when compared to the BRIO. It is roughly the same height as the BRIO at about 1 inch, it is nearly double the length (7” vs 4”) and 2 times deeper (1 and ¾” vs 1”) than the BRIO. And it is HEAVY. I had some initial concern of placing it atop my new laptop, but this fear was abated when I manipulated its super-sturdy attached monitor stand. I thought for sure its ponderous size would translate to unwieldy weight distributions which would cause it to drop from my razor thin Samsung Notebook with high frequency. It has not fallen once, and I do not think it has anything to do with Samsung. I’m no physicist, but the N970P just seems to be weighted correctly. It may be huge, but it is just as agile as the BRIO. The next thing I noticed about the N970P occurred when I plugged it in. I felt like I had installed a mirror to my laptop, because its clarity of detail and wide field of view was just as good as the reflection provided by my wall mirror that sits adjacent to my computer desk. The mirror comparison may sound weird, but I am telling you, I was blown away by both the camera and video quality of this webcam. In fact, this experience was closer in overall effect of first experiencing HD over standard definition in TVs than my initial experience with the BRIO. My methodology for this review was simple. I compared 3 webcams: the NexiGo N970P 4K, the Logitech BRIO, and my first NexiGo, the N960E FHD. I simply positioned each camera in identical positions around my room and noted which had the best video quality (each video was about 5 seconds each). I varied the positions by distance from me and height off the ground. That was it. Hey, they said I just had to write a review so I think I did ok, having never done one of these. It doesn’t even matter because the results were clear from the get-go. Regardless of distance or height, the N970P outperformed the other 2 webcams. I mean, the BRIO came close a couple times, but not once did it look better based on these 2 parameters. I mean it looked GOOD. But the NexiGo N970P captures reality better than any other web camera I have experienced. So, that’s it, friends. That’s my review. I hope you got something from it that will inform your decision on your next webcam purchase. In practice I keep all 3 webcams hooked and ready to go, but when I need the best shot, I alternate between the BRIO and the N970P 4K. I find myself going with the N970P with more frequency than the BRIO. Both are really good.

Works great for windows hello. Works in Ubuntu 24. Can't get the 1080 setting to work properly yet in windows but works fine in Linux. There are options for 2 lower quality settings as back up. The automatic shutter is a bad feature. It's possible to accidently lock it and there is not an indicator. This will cause problems trying to log in with windows hello so I advise not messing with the shutter lock. Seems like something to break vs simple manual operation. The 2nd windows hello camera does not even have a shutter. This camera was the best choice among a lame field of contenders. Video quality is fair. My phone is better. Seems overpriced but all cameras with windows hello feature require a premium as of April 2025. UPDATE: As of 5/11 I have returned this product to Amazon. Maybe I received a defective one, but after after working 'ok' for about 10 days this thing went haywire on me. The shutter began not opening half of the time. I would open the Nexigo software and go to 'preview' and while the software reported 30FPS the screen was black. Same thing would happen with Windows Hello. I would go to set-up windows Hello and the IR camera light would be on and the software would be telling me to center my face, but the main camera shutter would be closed and the screen dark. This affected Windows Hello's accuracy and it began not working on boot. The shutter lock was verified to not be engaged. Actually, engaging the lock and then manually undoing the lock would lead to the the shutter automatically opening half of the time. Nothing but weird behavior from this thing. I reinstalled the software, switched USB ports, reconfigured Windows Hello, but no luck. There is no way to manually open the shutter as it is behind glass. I bought this thing to make my life easier. Not Harder. I was never able to get 1080P resolution to properly display in the Nexigo software on Windows either. I purchased mine at $50. At $70 this thin is a waste of money even if it works properly.