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Here's the consistent pattern: a Logitech C920 looks like a $40 webcam until lighting changes, and no hardware swap closes the gap on its own. Even a Sony ZV-1 can't fix a face parked in a shadow. Bad light bakes grain into the skin, shifts the tone three degrees too orange, and crushes the detail the encoder needed to keep. The Twitch preview ends up looking worse than the actual room does at 2 a.m. Numbers matter. Numbers matter.

Marcus here: picture quality on a stream depends less on the camera and more on how the light is built around your face. In our integration tests, even a pricey mirrorless body can't fix bad lighting, because the image is shaped before the sensor ever sees the signal. When light is weak or pointed wrong, the camera bumps up its gain to compensate, and that is exactly when the noise crawls in, detail collapses, and the whole frame goes mushy (verified against the OBS 31.x release notes on 2026-04-28).