I use an Olympus E-M1 mark II camera as a web cam because my walk around camera (a mark I) doesn’t have a video feed. The old camera has a few faults: The play button is unreliable, and if that wasn’t bad enough the camera frequently drops out of playback mode. It regularly switches into […]

Before figuring out how to fix my Olympus camera (there’s a separate post about that) I ran with a Sony camera as a webcam, using the same HDMI adapter. It took some work in the settings to get a clean HDMI feed, and even then, there’s some problems with it.  But it works OK, and […]

I wanted to use a “proper” camera as a webcam, and ran into some difficulties with compatibility between the camera and the adapter. TL;DR – if you get ‘No Connection’ outputting HDMI from an Olympus camera, select a lower resolution and data rate. Carefully test higher resolution, frames per second, and data rate options, and […]