The Mevo Start (Note: Affiliate Link) represents both a change of gear and a continuation of the spirit of that first Mevo and subsequent Mevo Plus. Through all the changes, thankfully, Mevo has continued a process of steady, incremental improvements to its platform, many of which bear fruit in the Mevo Start.

It was a product of, which was swallowed up by Vimeo, which then spun the Mevo line off as an independent organization before peripheral giant Logitech purchased it earlier this year. During the time I’ve used it, Mevo has survived a series of corporate owners. I personally have used an original model Mevo for years in live-streaming ministry events, something I wrote about at the start of the pandemic. The Mevo Start is simple and unobtrusive with grippy rubberized sides and a front that consists of its lens and a status/tally light. It could even give the appearance of a camera being panned to track someone moving across its wide angled field of view. What’s more, the first two Mevos simulated the multicamera setup professional broadcasts typically use by shooting in ultrawide 4K and dividing that high resolution video into several HD resolution pieces that each appeared like a separate camera. The actual stream encoding - the part that normally demands a reasonably robust computer - happens on camera with the cell phone simply taking the place of the screen often found on digital cameras. Mevo first appeared in 2016 with a novel live streaming device: a tiny, battery powered camera that could live stream using just a cell phone to control it. That’s a lot to dig into, but let’s start with the Mevo story. In the Mevo’s case, it has more recently also gained the ability to be a high-end web cam and NDI remote camera, making it a live streaming-first, but multi-use device.

What is a “live streaming camera”? It is a camera capable of directly streaming online, rather than sending the video to a computer first. Logitech sent OFB two Mevo Start live streaming cameras to try in preparation for this review a couple of months ago and we’ve since put them through a variety of use cases to see if they live up to my high view of Mevos past and my more recent exploration of live streaming through OBS. Mevo pioneered an easier path to quality live streaming a half decade ago with its original live streaming camera and the Mevo Start is the company’s latest entry into that line. Live streaming continues to grow in influence while remaining complicated to do well.

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