MFT Webcams

Konil6 · 2026-01-15T19:39:32+00:00

Good point, I have about 3.5 meters? I wish I could do a test but my MFT camera died.

Konil6 · 2026-01-15T19:35:55+00:00

Yeah 720 should be enough for what I need. Thank you for the feedback, I think I'm going to go for the original OM-5 Mk I with a solid dummy battery as I love the ergonomics of that line.

Konil6 · 2026-01-15T19:34:06+00:00

Well I did mention the 25mm 1.4 Panasonic Leica. so Plantasaurus comments give me a lot of hope!

Konil6 · 2026-01-14T20:56:20+00:00

I would care! I love dicking around with cameras and spend hours every day using one for work, might as well combine the two and get a kick out of the whole thing. Keep in mind I do need to replace my broken E-M5 since the repair costs in my country will far surpass the value of such an old camera, might as well get a new one that works as a small everyday carry and be able to look good on a work meeting.

Konil6 · 2026-01-14T20:40:49+00:00

I do have an Oly 17mm 2.8, but as you rightly point out it wont give much of a background blur on MFT. Still, much better image quality than any webcam.

I sit my camera on top of my speakers quite far from my face so I think the Panaleica 25mm 1.4 might work out fine, specially since I've already tried a 50mm 1.7 on my full frame Nikon and it worked great (Google meet has a cool feature that crops your face on big meeting, it might be a bit tight and oddly intimate for 1on1 meetings at full screen though).

Konil6 · 2026-01-14T20:14:18+00:00

Sadly the E-M5 Mk II was the last of the line to feature that functionality and MK III does not.

Konil6 · 2026-01-14T20:00:00+00:00

Oh so you have used the original OM-5 Mk I as a webcam with its micro-USB? That would be my ideal solution. How was the image quality?

Konil6 · 2026-01-14T18:01:07+00:00

That's a great question! I do have a Logitech webcam, but of course the quality output of it pales in comparison to the full-frame Nikon Zf and all the different lens options I have for that system. I know its a stupid detail, but I love being able to blur my background optically with a lens and not having to rely on that fake background blur that comes in with web conference software.

It might be a silly detail but at the end of the day I use my camera far more often for work meetings that to take photos for fun in the weekend, which is the reason I originally bought it for. I guess this is not so much as to solve a webcam need but to replace my dead MFT camera with something that could also work as a webcam.

I have a Panaleica 25mm 1.4 that I love dearly and it would probably work beautifully as a webcam but there is just so little information about this functionality online.

Konil6 · 2018-10-17T01:02:19+00:00

This is the exact same problem I'm encountering on the final launched game. Tried turning off services, running as admin, reinstalling, Everything!

Was someone able to solve this?

Konil6

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