Best 4k Webcam Showdown 🔥 OBSBOT Meet 2 4K / Tiny 2 Lite vs Insta360 Link 2C / Link 2

0:00 what's up guys I'm random Frank p and today we have a big highly requested webcam comparison test to bring you guys an objective look at two leading webcam companies in the streaming market right now so you can see which is best for you for starters we have the obsbot tiny 2 light 4K versus the insta 360 link 2 with their smaller counterparts the Abbot meet 2 4K and the insta 360 link 2C a few weeks ago I did a review of the insta 360 link 2 and Link c one of the most common questions I saw in that video was how do these compare to obsbot so that's what today's video is going to be all about an objective head-to-head

0:46 comparison and for a quick disclosure both companies did send these out to me that does not change my opinion or way this video and tests have been conducted this is purely a head-to-head comparison so you guys can see how they look how they're constructed the software all head-to-head in an objective test for you guys okay so first up let's get them unbox so we can see how they physically look side by side starting with the obsbot meet 2 4K and the insta 360 link 2C both of which are the non- gimbal budget options with a small and compact form factor packing the 4K quality into such a tiny body the size of a golf ball really each of these models comes with a magnetic Stand Inside the Box the link 2C has a manual privacy cover built in

1:31 while the Me 2 4K comes with a magnetic cover on the lens interestingly something neither the other tiny two light or the link to come with but we'll touch on both those in just a second but as you can see in terms of physical bells and whistles really nothing else to note on here for the webcams they each have the built-in noise cancelling omnidirectional microphones and those similarities do continue because on paper these are both extremely similar in almost every spec despite the Me 2 coming in not $20 less and of course we'll check out the image quality in just a minute but if you're in the market for a camera with a dual AIS gimbal then that's where we have the bigger brother the obsbot tiny 2 light and the insta 360 link 2 both of which house that same camera in sensor from

2:16 the smaller models but now have the advantage of being mounted on a two axis gimbal for tracking and AI features for those who need that and they want to stay in frame appealing more to the business side of things or the more you know interactive live stream where you're not just sitting in a chair the tiny 2 light has built-in fold out stand on the base of the camera instead of the optional magnetic detachable one and this model gets a price bump to $179 which is only $50 more for the added feature set of that gimbal for the insta 360 link 2 you'll notice it's literally that same body and housing as the 2C but again the gimbal's attached here this also gets that same $50 price increase at $1.99 for this model really making them both fantastic options in the web webcam space for this price point still

3:02 this beats out the likes of Elgato and Razer two popular companies in the streaming space but again these also had that gimbal feature in the same story we saw before both models boasting the same comparable specs in almost every regard with the two physical differences being the built-in stand on the tiny two light and the link two has optional touch controls but comparing specs on paper only goes so far now let's dive into the video tests okay now for the image quality test of both webcams I have them both side byid so you can see the quality pinned up against each other in real time with the obsbot tiny 2 light 4K as well as the insta 360 link 2 both pretty much have the same exact specs which is pretty

3:48 funny they're both an f1.8 halfin semas sensor pretty much the same exact uh fov and they're at the same setting stock out of the box as well everything is set to Auto in the settings for the actual quality I'm talking like ISO white balance contrast everything is set the auto on both and they are both at the 4K 30fps setting which is the highest setting that they both go up to and again for them being so similarly speced there is a pretty noticeable quality Straight Out of the Box the first thing that scks out to me is I would say the uh the OBS spot is a bit more natural looking over overall I would say maybe it's a tiny bit on the green side where

4:35 then on the opposite end the the insta 360 is definitely a bit more magenta tinted and a bit sharper I would say that's the first thing that stuck out to me was how sharp this is versus the more natural image on the obsbot so really that's going to sort of you know depend on what you prefer just to give you an idea of what I mean uh I can come up really close and yes this looks great um the key word natural then versus the insta 360 you can really get a fine look at my pores and my fine lines in my face because it is just so sharp I do think all around though the obsbot is the more just true to life natural looking webcam

5:20 here and again the uh the insta 360 could definitely benefit from a little bit more green to it it just seems very magenta to me now you can adjust these settings like I said before in their software but that's just the white balance they don't have that green to magenta tint which I think they both would benefit from but yes this is how they both look and as we go along for each one you're going to be hearing the microphones on both of them as well which again also pretty similarly speced they are both a noise cancelling omnidirectional mic they're both have a dual microphones built in as well so um I'm not in a noisy you know room I'm down in my studio you can maybe hear some the fans in the background for my PC and stuff but this is how both the

6:07 microphones sound with their native noise cancelling nothing in the settings has been touched so as you guys saw and heard I mean those omnidirectional mics they're probably the same exact microphone in each they're both they sound identical to me but the main difference here and key really was the white balance you can see how each sensor is perceiving the image and how it thinks it should look when the white balance is set to Auto and also for direct comparison I'm using a color Checker chart which is something that I use for new cameras new lenses it's a great tool for color correcting and also for here a good use of a side-by-side visual so you can see how the colors look on the chart which again is a professional tool for color grading and for what it's worth if you want to see how the cams can look graded so if you

6:52 want a color corck for like a VOD or just like you know a recording they can still look obviously even better when graded and then lastly just for another comparison before we move on I want to do a little test of the minimal focal distance which again these are both very very similar spec webcams they are both 10 cm out of the box so that means just about 4 in is the minimal focal distance which you can put something up to the webcam and it will nicely come in Focus now this does need to be in front of the face because if I have a face in the camera you will see that it prioritizes the face but on both both webcams very very good when it comes to a quick adjustment right up to it out of the box and uh yeah so pretty much 4 in 10 cm

7:41 both are very good just like I said make sure you prioritize having the actual product that you're demoing close to the webcam um over the face or else it will just focus on the face but yeah just a quick little raw demo of the cams for you guys you can see that head-to-head comparison so both use paaf which stands for phase detection autofocus and both very close at 10 cm barely 4 in and they both did a really good job at being quick to detect that sudden shift of something being closer to the camera without like really visual Focus hunting which is key neither had an issue focusing up close and then shifting back to my face a second that an object wasn't right back in front of it so very very good autofocus on both now next Up's going to

8:27 be a quick look at their software we're not going to go over for every single thing which is a quick little run through with the insta 360 link controller and the obsbot center first up for insta 360 is their link controller software everything here pretty easy to use if you wanted to change your frame rate or resolution all you have to do is click this little icon down here on the bottom where you see that a little popup comes up letting you adjust resolution frame rate and ratio if you want to go vertical as well the preview is on by default when you load it up you'll see see why I mentioned that in just a few minutes you have your uh all your AI and your tracking settings and some of the features here built in like whiteboard your desk view all you can enable either gestures touch controls or just right here in the settings but the main stuff obviously

9:14 over on the right side is going to be this panel here for the gimbal on the link to with your manual adjustments you can make some presets then for the tracking settings you can change when you when you have the tracking on whether you want to focus on your head half body or the whole body and an interesting thing here is the tracking speed now this will come and play when we do the quick comparison test of the tracking you can change it from Quick ordinary and slow Again by default I'm on ordinary but you have that ability to adjust the tracking for when you walking around and how quickly the Kimble itself is you know moving and keeping you in frame from Quick ordinary to slow over for your your your effects tab like I said before everything's been autoed this whole time but adjust your exposure autofocus white balance brightness

10:00 contrast saturation sharpness HDR anti flicker different color presets background modes a makeup mode different filters but we're not going to touch on that stuff really but this is mainly your color tab then the more tab is enabling which gestures you want to control the auto mode the audio mode other settings like flipping uh vertically or horizontally muting and privacy mode but again everything is pretty much going to be done in the view tab where you have the control of the gimbal itself or if you want to adjust the color you go to the effects tab which you can do that but for the direct comparison everything as I said five times now Auto this is the link controller software pretty easy to use pretty simple and then over to the

10:45 obsbot center and one of the things you'll notice is there's no preview on you do have to manually enable that and turn it on takes a quick little second but then we're good to go I feel like that should be on by default just so you can obviously see yourself and how it looks without having to manually turn the preview on and off because for somebody who's not familiar with the software there's a lot of little buttons and icons and things that might take you a minute or two to figure this out so should be on by default which leads up into one of the first things also that kind of annoys me with the obsbot center is it's not as userfriendly as we saw with the insta 360 for example if you want to change your uh your resolution

11:32 or your orientation you'll see on the bottom here there's a little icon which brings up another menu behind the preview which if the preview wasn't open it would be up but you're going to have your preview open if you're going to be W to changeing your settings and stuff so it does bring up another menu which then you have to go in and adjust from 4K 30 down to your you know your 1080p 60 and down to 720 if you need that uh your preview mode here you can change it from landscape to portrait uh your video encoding you you have the ability to also change it from software to Hardware as well as some extra things which is pretty cool like the recording bit rate from low to high and recording formats even from MP4 mov FLV and MKV as well so cool little options there then obviously stuff like your Global hot Keys osc just

12:18 more general settings but pretty much I feel like everything in this output setting especially your res your resolution and your uh your orientation should just be a quick adjustment without having to go into yet another menu but over here on the console setting tab this is where you have all your adjustments for the G of the gimbal for your different tracking from you know your normal tracking upper body close headless if you just want your lower body in frame uh interesting but they have that your AI mode where if you have multiple people in the room a group setting adding different presets and here's one of the interesting things under the view and gimbal tab this lets you as you can see manually adjust the Gimbal and hidden by default behind this little icon is the ability to change

13:06 from a fast to a slow gimbal setting now this is if you just manually adjust it you'll notice that for the AI tracking there is no uh manual adjustment of how fast or slow you want the gimbal to track you automatically only for the manual adjustments and this fast and slow doesn't carry over to the uh the AI tracking as it is and and then for the framing if you want to zoom in you have your medium uh wide and narrow and your manual adjustments here for zooming but yes this the console tab pretty much for adjusting the gimbal your image tab is going to be where all your color correction and stuff would come into play but again as you guys know everything's been Auto from the autofocus exposure anti flicker white balance some additional settings for contrast saturation sharpness and Hue

13:54 and then the more is some of the uh just you know uh more fine stuff on Auto sleep enabling your different gesture controls microphone settings everything's been stock this whole time mirroring the image uh firmware the brightness just you know tucked away stuff which would feel like everything in the more tab could have been in that popup menu for the other settings so the main stuff here obviously console and image with like I said my main takeaway being it's definitely not as userfriendly or you know user inuitive as it is with insta 360 having the portrait and L Escape mode and your resolution and frame rate tucked away and a third menu is kind of annoying and having to manually enable the preview I feel like should have been done stock so

14:39 for that quick overview of their software again we didn't go through every single thing there's different Beauty modes and different settings but just a quick run through for you guys and I really think that the insta 360 link controller is just so much more user friendly and as I sort of left off on what we have the gimbal controls that's going to lead us into the next portion of this this with the tracking with the gimbals now I have both set up side by side with the auto tracking on so that my upper body is kept in frame same test being done here in two things stuck out to me first they both have zero issues with losing me I am in a pretty confined space so it's not like I'm running laps 360 around the webcam but still in my setting going back and forth up and down both kept me tracked

15:24 and in frame but I will say the link 2C is smoother at doing so whereas on the tiny two light you can see a slight bit of Jitter to it most notable when I stop moving and the gimbal itself also stops that's when you start to notice that Jitter is when the gimbal is coming to a stop and as I just showed you in the software that's where obsbot would benefit from the control like the insta 360 has because if this was you know set to the fastest movement setting which I assume stock this is then maybe the gimbal speed set to medium you know would help ease up that transition from track me to then slowing down and stopping without looking so jittery again they have that speed control for the manual gimbal mode so I hope it's something they can just easily add in the future and secondly another thing that popped out was when doing these

16:11 tests the link 2 C's white balance here is much better versus when I was just sitting in front of it here it seems to be Auto balancing to the entire room instead of just me the subject that was in front of the camera it still has a slight magenta tint to it but it's not nearly as bad as it was before Pro proving that both of these cameras would benefit from a green to magenta color tint in the settings so then what about the Me 2 4K and the link C these smaller more budget friendly options and as you gathered from the intro my earlier explanation of both these webcams they are visually going to look pretty much identical to the tiny 2 light in the link 2 because again they're the same sensor so just showing that on the color chart again and even going a step further with all four side by side yes

16:58 they're identical and while these are the compact non- gimbal model they do have the ability to track you still actually by their Auto framing feature so as you move around it will just zoom in up to their four times digital zoom and will be a digital pan in tracking to keep you in frame both are adjustable from the composition from whether you want your head upper body or whole body to be tracked but again this is all done digitally and all the models have the gesture control so you can enable the tracking by putting your hand up or making an L to zoom or as you see here let the auto frame just take the wheel so your hands off so a cool digital integration if you want that tracking feature but since it is digital you will get that slight quality loss as it zooms in to crop the image but it's still more than usable in a pinch so as we wrap up

17:44 the physical side by sides there's still a few more features I want to touch on one of the most popular filters people use is the artificial blur the insta 360 is very good at giving a clean natural looking background blur that's pretty convincing does a great job of not having like visual fraying to me really some of the best fake digital bokeh I've seen while obba on the other hand handles this pretty poorly with an entire visible outline around my body and face where you can see that digital blur happening which pretty much makes this unusable it's like I'm in some Donny Darko Wormhole now for a low light test both do pretty good I am in a dark room here with just the light of my monitor in front of me the exposure compensation set to Auto on both and really if you're streaming you don't

18:30 have lights on you are going to at least have your monitor there for some light but yeah both do pretty good I'd say looks like to me the obsbot is a bit darker overall but there's still more than enough Clarity then for the insta 360 the image is definitely a bit brighter but that also means there's more noise in the background you can see that mainly like on the wall and stuff but again they're both set to Auto compensation for the exposure you can bump it if you do need more of that artificial light moving on the Me 2 4K has magnetic sides to the webcam making it quick and easy to mount this if you want to stream vertically and auto rotates the framing in the software which is cool where the link 2C does not neither of the sides are magnetic here just the bottom kind of a head scratcher and speaking of vertical orientation for

19:16 the insta 360 link 2 this needs to be turned manually and then adjusted to portrait in their software and it will autof frame correct the orientation natively while the OBS spot requires a bit more work you do have to to manually adjust the camera still and the gimbal has to be on top and changing the orientation to portrait in their software keeps the image at 16x9 still so then to fit the frame you have to click the 90° rotation tool which all just seems like three steps more than it needs to be and lastly for the more business professional side of streaming two features that the insta 360 has that Ops spot does not is like a smart whiteboard mode this lets the camera focus in and frame the image on a whiteboard so it's fully shot again more for that work environment in the desk

20:02 View mode which Auto turns the gimbal downward so it's facing your desk so like if you're demoing something in front of you which also has a vertical correction slider so you can adjust that even more so it's perfectly oriented flat okay so at the end of the day with those side by-side comparisons done a few things stuck out to me first off audio on both very good although if you are the gamer you know the streamer who's using this you're probably not using the built-in cameras here you probably have your very own desktop microphone but again for the the streamer in the working environment for the business professional they're probably going to be using these still more than fine the biggest thing though I think really comes down to white balance cuz you saw such a stark visual difference from when the insta 360 was

20:48 focusing just on me where it was very very magenta tinted versus when I was doing the the tracking test where it was you know accounting for the entire room adjusting the auto balance there and it looked much much better not as you know magenta Straight Out of the Box yes you can adjust some of that with the manual controls but for the sake of the auto settings here you can see that magenta difference on Insta 360 whereas the obsbot looked so much more natural out of the box with no settings needing to be adjusted or altered at all which is very very impressive now also with all that being said uh if you're looking for you know a webcam that's plug-in play you're a gamer you want to sit down have yourself in frame in Focus I really

21:36 think that the meu 4K is a great great pickup the cheapest one on this list cheaper than insta 360 really good price for this if you do want that tracking feature with the Gimbal and just because of the ability to adjust it in the software with the speed and the fact that it's not as jittery the insta 360 link 2 I think has has that slight Edge now it is you know like I said before more expensive than the obsbot so it's going to come down to really what you prefer uh the image quality I think on here is still better but the tracking on the gimbal here with the smoothness uh is better if you need that personally for me uh I don't know if there's going to be like you know holiday deals and stuff but you just can't Overlook the

22:22 price difference here with obsbot being the cheaper more affordable option while still out of the box I I think looking better so guys that'll wrap it up that's my take on it I gave you the comparisons the visuals so you can have that objective side by-side comparison but again more money in your wallet is always a good thing if you want to check any of them out I'll have all four models listed for you in the description down below if you like this video give it a big thumbs up show your support feel free to follow me on all socials randomfrankp if you haven't already hit that subscribe button hope you enjoyed hope this helped you out have a good day