Labtec Webcam 1200
by Logitech
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Category: CE
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: LogitechFormat: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows
Model: 960-000151
Product features:
- VGA photo capture - capture high-quality images.
- Liven up your Internet conversations with video instant messaging
- Click the Snapshot button to snap a candid photo.
- Manual focus let you adjust for maximum sharpness.
- Requires Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP or Vista
- AmazonBasics USB 2.0 A-Male to A-Female Extension Cable (3.3 Feet/1.0 Meter)
- AmazonBasics Ultra-High-Speed HDMI Cable Braided (9.8 Feet/3.0 Meters)
- AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Braided Cable (6.5 Feet/2.0 Meters)
- AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Cable (6.5 Feet/2.0 Meters)[Supports 3D + Audio Return Channel][OLD MODEL]
- AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Cable (9.8 Feet/3.0 Meters) [Supports 3D + Audio Return Channel]
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Labtec Webcam 1200
Customer Review: Probably still the best sub-$10 webcam.
Summary: 3 Stars
Pros: This webcam is dirt cheap. If you intend on setting up a home surveillance system (or any other project that needs several low-quality webcams), The labtec 1200 makes a fairly decent webcam.
Cons: The Labtec 1200 captures at a very low resolution and framerate. While 640x480(VGA) photo capture is advertised, don't let this mislead you, it actually captures video at 352x288@5fps.
Other Thoughts: If you just need a webcam for the purpose of viewing a room, or allowing people to see you when you talk, then this is fine for your needs. However, if you intend on doing anything where more depth and quality is needed, you're probably going to want to shell out more money for something nicer.
Also, this webcam is fully supported under the linux kernel (I think since 2.6.27?). Cheese seems to handle it just fine, although occasionally I do get frame overflows from gspca, causing blue speckles to briefly appear in random frames (it's only two or three pixels, so it isn't particularly noticeable). The only thing I truely dislike about this webcam is the palette. It uses it's own encoding to send the frames, so programs like "motion" can't easily create mjpeg streams (which is what I wanted to use this for). I haven't quite figured out a way to get it working yet, apparently there is a wrapper library you can use (http://m560x-driver.wiki.sourceforge.net/libv4l) to convert the pac207 palette to YUV420/YU12 before it gets read by motion.
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