Dell 6K U3224KB Monitor

[enc0re]

I currently use Continuity Camera. I used the Brio 4K long before that, since 2017. It's good for its time but Continuity Camera off my iPhone 15 Pro gives much better chroma key results, especially around my hair.

The advantage of a built-in webcam (apart from not having to hook up my iPhone) is that it places the camera as low as possible on the screen. I make educational videos that involved sharing my screen. I look in the camera to maintain viewer connection but then have to use my peripheral vision to do the actual on-screen work. The closer the camera is to the screen, the easier that job is for me.

Before someone else suggests how I should be doing my job, I have also used the technique of having a camera on a tripod in front of my screen. But then I have to manually sync the video streams and have a separate setup for videoconferencing.

A 32"+ HiDPI monitor with a great built-in webcam is worth a lot to me. That's why I bought the Dell U3224KB at release since its 4K webcam with a Sony sensor sounded like it would be good. It wasn't then. Is it now?

 

[t_a_m]

The dell webcam is nicer than the studio display.

The DDPM lets you adjust colour temp etc now, so you can do it to taste. Default is a bit less saturated than the built in webcam on a MBP but nice enough I've left it. Skin tones are more accurate. I'm normally in daylight from a window though.

Display colour is very good. For reference I have as you do a screen with an LG OLED panel, a couple of MBP with mini-LED, iPad Pro, and various other work displays with good colour etc. I work in computer vision/related fields and am an amateur photographer, colour is important to me.

It's not as vibrant or contrasty as OLED, and obviously can't match the dynamic range of the OLED/MiniLED options - but I wouldn't expect it to. It's a lot cheaper than a MiniLED of that size, let along resolution would be. For P3 or sRGB it's perfectly good and accurate, to my eyes. In HDR modes it's more important colour spaces line up or things look odd/washed out but it's about as good as you'd expect for HDR600. In that for natural images - HDR with an iPhone etc - it looks good. I (so far) tend to keep it in SDR though for increased average screen brightness in what is normally a well lit room (where it beats most OLED). Also most of my "proper" photography isn't HDR.