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Logitech C270, 720p at 30 fps, fixed focus, universal clip review

The cheapest of the seven webcams here at 16 €, whose listing publishes a frame rate, a microphone and a mount — and never once states a resolution or a field of view.

The bottom line Sixteen euros for a working camera with a noise-reducing microphone and a mount that fits anything, on a page that never states a resolution or an angle. Its own last bullet names the upgrade, which tells you what it is.

On the listing

HD video calling over Skype and similar services at 30 frames a second for a clear, smooth, high-contrast picture; a built-in microphone with noise reduction for intelligible speech in noisy surroundings; automatic adaptation to the lighting in dim rooms; a universal mount for attaching to a screen or standing on a shelf; a closing description as a small, versatile and inexpensive camera; and a final bullet recommending the maker’s C920s for Full HD, autofocus and a cover.

What is published, and what is missing

A frame rate with no resolution behind it. Thirty frames a second, stated plainly. Six webcams on this shelf pair a rate with a resolution; this one gives the rate alone, and calls the result HD video calling.

The field of view is absent too, where six of the seven publish an angle in degrees. For a camera that will sit on one screen in one room, the angle decides whether one person or three fit in the frame.

The most honest bullet on the shelf

The sixth recommends the maker’s own dearer model, by name, for Full HD, autofocus and a cover. That is a listing telling you what this camera does not do, and it is worth more than a specification: no autofocus, no privacy shutter, and something below Full HD.

One microphone

Every other webcam here publishes two, usually as a stereo pair with noise cancelling. This has one, described as noise-reducing. In a quiet room that is enough for a call; in a shared office it is the first thing that will be complained about.

The mount is the quiet strength

Screen or shelf, no adapter. At this price the camera will end up wherever it is needed, and the fourth bullet is the reason it will stay there.

Availability

Between 16 € and 20 € on the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores when this page was last checked.

The British Amazon store carry it too, priced in local currency. Those amounts are deliberately absent from the range above, which reads euro stores only.

Nothing came back from the American Amazon store at all, so the button for that country runs a search instead of opening an entry that is not there.

Everything in this section is the figure Keepa carried on the day of the last update to this page. Availability and prices shift without notice.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 13 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

What it does well, and what it gives up

Strengths

  • Sixteen euros, and the mount works on a screen or a shelf without an adapter
  • The microphone is specified as noise-reducing rather than merely present
  • The last bullet points at the maker’s dearer model for autofocus and a cover, which is unusually candid about what this one lacks

Compromises

  • No resolution anywhere on the page, and no field of view
  • No privacy shutter, alone with one other camera on this shelf
  • One microphone where every other webcam here publishes two

Specifications

Resolution and frame rate combinations30 frames a second, stated in the first bullet as giving a clear, smooth, high-contrast picture. No resolution figure appears anywhere on the page — not in the title, not in six bullets — which makes this the only webcam here to publish a rate without a resolution
Field of viewNot published on the listing — six of the seven webcams here give an angle in degrees and this one gives none
Focus typeNot published on the listing — no focus arrangement is named, fixed or automatic
Low-light provisionThe camera adapts to the lighting conditions in dim surroundings, stated in the third bullet as giving better, higher-contrast pictures. Named as a behaviour rather than a specification
MicrophonesOne built-in microphone with noise reduction, stated in the second bullet as keeping a voice intelligible in noisy surroundings. The only single-microphone camera on this shelf; the rest publish two
MountingA universal mount, stated in the fourth bullet as attaching securely to a screen or standing on a shelf
Privacy shutterNot published on the listing — no cover or shutter is named. The sixth bullet recommends the maker’s own dearer model for autofocus and a cover, which is a tacit statement that this one has neither
Amazon referenceB01BGBJ8Y0 (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN5099206064201

What people ask before they commit

Why does the page not say what resolution it records?

It does not, and this page will not supply a figure the listing omits. What is published is 30 frames a second and HD video calling as a description, which places it below the 1080p and 4K cameras on this shelf without pinning it down. The sixth bullet pointing at a Full HD model as the upgrade is the strongest indication of where this one sits.

Does a noise-reducing microphone replace a headset?

For a quiet room, often yes. The second bullet claims intelligibility in noisy surroundings, and a single microphone close to the screen picks up the room as well as the voice. A headset puts the microphone next to the mouth, which no webcam can match — the gain from moving a microphone is the same principle that makes an external microphone worth more than resolution on the camcorder shelf.