While most webcam mics are.kind of terrible, the Brio 500’s mics are not bad - they were able to easily pick up my voice, even from a few feet away, so long as I was facing the webcam.

The Brio 500 has built-in dual microphones with beamforming noise-reducing technology designed to pick up your voice even if you move around in front of the camera.

It’s not perfect - if you look closely, you can see that there’s still a lot of detail lost in my facial features as compared to the well-lit setting - but the overall image looks very good, and I’m especially impressed with how evenly-lit and un-grainy my skin looks. The Brio 500 did an excellent job of keeping me well-lit, though my background still looks pretty over-exposed. To test the Brio 500’s performance in an overexposed setting, I turned off all of the lights in front of me, as well as three of my four monitors, leaving my background lights and one 27-inch monitor on. Again, this isn’t really an issue considering it’s a webcam - but it might not be the best webcam for creating dramatic YouTube shorts. I tried playing around with my lighting to see if I could create a more dynamic picture, but RightLight 4 thwarted me at every turn, evenly-lighting me no matter how dramatic I tried to make my lighting. Unfortunately, RightLight 4 is still trying to do this even in very ideal lighting situations, which is why my well-lit setting looks kind of flat. One of the features Logitech is touting with the Brio 500 is RightLight 4 - the most recent evolution of Logitech’s RightLight technology – which uses face-tracking and other factors to make sure the subject is evenly-lit in less-than-ideal lighting situations.

This isn’t really an issue that will concern most people - a flat, evenly-lit image is, for the most part, a best-case scenario when it comes to webcam performance. The Brio 500 does produce a flatter, less-dynamic overall image than other webcams we’ve tested, such as the Insta360 Link. The Insta360 Link has the best auto-white balance we’ve seen, but the Brio 500 comes pretty close.

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