Sony finally joins the club and lets you use its cameras as a webcam
Aug 20, 2020
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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Well, it was a matter of time. After announcing that you’ll be able to use the ZV-1 as a webcam, Sony has now officially launched the software. And even better, they expanded it to 34 other camera models. The Imaging Edge software is now out, and it lets you turn your Sony camera into a fancy USB webcam.
The concept seems pretty straightforward. Go to the Download page and select your camera model. Then, download the software and install it on your computer. After this, you can connect your camera to the PC with a USB cable, but you’ll need to change some camera settings. These settings depend on the model, but Sony shares a useful guide that will help you out. When that’s all done, you can open Zoom, Skype, or any other video conferencing tool, choose Sony as the web camera, and hopefully enjoy your chat.
Here’s the list of cameras supported:
I’m not surprised that Sony has decided to launch Imaging Edge. It was one of the few major companies that still hadn’t launched the software. It has now caught up with Sigma, Canon, Olympus, Fujifilm, and GoPro. Now there’s only Nikon left to come up with their own software and we’ll have all the major camera manufacturers covered.
[via Engadget]
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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23 responses to “Sony finally joins the club and lets you use its cameras as a webcam”
https://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/download/sw/176.html
Always in last place when it comes to innovation
Maybe it is just me but I don’t get that. Why do you want to use a 1-5k camera as a webcam?
Quality. Most webcams are utter trash, which isn’t a great look for professionals
Cristiano Diniz da Silva The quality is much better than most webcams. Face detection ensures that you are in focus at all times, and manual whitebalance is important if you use a green background and virtual background.
Cristiano Diniz da Silva it’s an additional use for an expensive device; there’s no harm, and it can add a certain professional feel to meetings, rather than a grainy image at least.
Maybe a justification would be the green backdrop but besides it just seem to be a hype use.
Cristiano Diniz da Silva I have the camera already, and the software is free, so what do I lose by using it as webcam?
It’s might be a feature some people will use… But it’s not a game changer in digital photography and so just stupid Nikon bashing in that post ?♂️
Lars Stokholm You are correct, there is nothing to loose. It is just a strange concept that I was trying to understand reasoning behind it.
Daniel Mueller especially when Nikon had their software out before Sony.
The reason is that there have been an outage of webcams during the pandemic and many people has a DSLR or a mirrorless camera. Canon started it all by enabling their cameras as webcams to make it easier for those who has one to use them during conference meetings.
Michael Estwik that is interesting. First I heard that. Yeah this being the case it does make sense.
Hate to break the news to you all but Nikon beat Sony to the punch and released their software two to three weeks ago ahead of Sony and it’s fantastic
All that is left to catch up and join the pack is DJI
I am waiting until I can play red dead redemption on a Sony. ?
What is the point of this? lol
For people working from home due to COVID-19 so they can have meetings where a camera is required.
Yes Nikon has made it for Windows OS
Nikon did actually beat Sony in this race.
I’ve been using this in D3400 since 2017 with Digicam Control. A free universal software for making the DSLR webcam and I actually recorded a timelapse video on 24h coding competition. If not familiar with that there are capture cards from about 50$ which do this job and many pros use them on live stream concerts with OBS and Multicast operations. So the fact that companies in 2020 reinvented the wheel is tragic.
I also use my Nikon as a webcam + Digicam Control + OBS. Could you please share with us which capture card do you use?
But it doesn’t have a Mac version!
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