Logitech Brio 505 webcam review

The Logi Brio 505 is a plug-and-play webcam with plenty of work-minded perks

Logitech Brio 505
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Digital Camera World Verdict

The Logitech Brio 505 webcam is a triumph of straightforward design, with a USB-C connection and magnetic attachment to help it hook onto your computer monitor. With a decent picture, privacy shutter, and plenty of angle/focus adjustments – including the desk-minded Show Mode – the Brio 505 offers simple but varied customization for your workspace.

Pros

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    Simple USB-C connection

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    Privacy shutter

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    Versatile Show Mode

Cons

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    Useless HDR

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    Only 30fps on Full HD

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    Some flicker on 720p

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Good webcams are crucial in an office environment – whether that’s your home office or an open-plan row of desks for an entire department. It’s a bad look to be stuck with a pixelated face or off-color tint during a Zoom meeting, and there are plenty of webcams that improve on the middling built-in offerings found in the average laptop.

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Henry St Leger

Henry is a freelance technology journalist. Before going freelance, he spent more than three years on TechRadar reporting on TVs, projectors and smart speakers as the website's Home Cinema Editor – and has been interviewed live on both BBC World News and Channel News Asia, discussing the future of transport and 4K resolution televisions respectively. As a graduate of English Literature and theater enthusiast, he'll usually be found forcing Shakespeare puns into his technology articles, which he thinks is what the Bard would have wanted.