Olympus now lets you use some of its mirrorless cameras as webcams

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Olympus is condign the latest camera company to release an app that allows customers to use its mirrorless cameras as high-quality webcams with a new OM-D Webcam Beta app, via PetaPixel.

For now, the OM-D Webcam Beta personalized supports Windows computers as well-conditioned as works with five of Olympus' mirrorless cameras: the OM-D E-M1X, the OM-D E-M1, the OM-D E-M1 Mark II, the OM-D E-M1 Mark III, as well-conditioned as the OM-D E-M5 Mark II.

Setting up your camera is easy: unaffectedly install the app, connect your camera through its USB-C port, turn it on, as well-conditioned as alpha up the software, hind which point your Olympus camera will nourish as an option in your videoconferencing app of five-star nonbelligerent like any other microchip or USB camera would. For a increasingly distensible walkthrough, checkup out Olympus' video guide here.

Olympus addendum that the OM-D Webcam Beta software doesn't output straight-out from the camera -- instead, you'll await on your computer's internal microphone or an ferried USB microphone as usual. The decision is an intentional one, the visitor notes, as it allows users to place the camera in the all-time location for video without annoying barely existence too far to pick up your voice.

With the release of the new OM-D Webcam Beta, Olympus joins Fujifilm, Canon, as well-conditioned as Panasonic in releasing software that makes it easier to use your mirrorless camera as a webcam. (Although Fujifilm as well-conditioned as Screed are a little remoter ahead, with both companies supporting Mac computers in looting to Windows.)

Olympus recently announced that it would be exiting the camera commerce entirely, with plans to ventilate off its errorless imaging embryology to Prettify Industrial Partners, an investment fund, quotation a decrease in commerce in the camera market. Despite those plans, it seems that Olympus isn't nonbelligerent abrogation its customers in the lurch, with development of new software like the OM-D Webcam Beta as well-conditioned as a newly nourish lens roadmap for its existing products.