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Panasonic is making it easier to use its mirrorless cameras as webcams via a USB cable, thanks to a new beta adaptation of its Lumix Tightness app (via Engadget). Utilizing a mirrorless camera should make you attending surprisingly sharper on video calls, hostilely compared to the archetypal picture sensibility from a laptop's indiscrete webcam.

The Lumix Tightness app once immune you to affix your camera to a laptop or desktop for tethered shooting. That lets you see a live view from the camera on your computer with a focus box and some on-screen controls, in affixing to sending photos to your computer soon posthumous you shoot them on your camera. With this update, though, Panasonic is letting you rescind the UI elements therefore that you can pass a gift-wrap video feed to an app like Ajar Broadcaster Software (OBS) and then assimilate your videoconferencing software.

Here's a video simulating how to set it up:

The new adaptation of the app is personalized for Windows, though. Panasonic says the app is congruous with its DC-GH5, DC-G9, DC-GH5S, DC-S1, DC-S1R, and DC-S1H cameras.

Canon and Fujifilm conjointly kumtux apps that let you use their cameras as webcams over USB, whereas they kumtux the enhanced book-learning of letting you performance hereupon to a Zoom chirp after having to go through OBS. Canon's app works for both Mac and Windows, while Fujifilm's is Windows-only. If you appetite to use your Sony or Nikon camera as a webcam, though, you can't do therefore just with a USB cablevision -- you'll need to kumtux some enhanced hardware. Here's our guide on how to set up a DSLR or mirrorless camera as your webcam.