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Malte's home video conferencing setup
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  • Lights: Elgato Key Lights (2, one as actual key light, one as fill light)
    • Looking into these lights can cause fatigue after a while, which sucks if you're doing that all day.
    • I managed to work around it by heavily dimming one light that is in my field of view and moving the other light out of my field of view.
  • Microphone: Blue Snowball Ice
  • Microphone pop filter
  • Wall/ceiling mounts for camera and lights
  • Camera: Sony a6000.
    • This is one of multiple older Sony mirrorless cameras recommended for streaming.
    • Whichever you buy, make sure the reviews mention that it can stay on long without overheating
    • And clean HDMI out is key (no on-screen menu)
    • Against what appears to be popular believe, you absolutely want to run the camera/lens in manual focus mode. That works totally fine as you won't be moving much. And to the contrary the adjustments of the auto-focus can be very distracting.
  • 10 inch screen I mount this behind the camera, so you can look folks into the eye during a video conference.
  • HDMI Capture. I have this Magewell but the current price of $299 is ridiculous. Find something else. (Again not prone to overheating)
  • Cables
  • ~100W power adapter is required to run the Magewell capture device via unpowered USB on a Laptop without draining the battery.

Full setup

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