Logitech 720p Webcam C905
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Customer Review: Great little webcam for notebooks or desktops
Summary: 4 Stars
Several months ago, I bought the older Logitech quickcam pro for notebooks and it was great, except it didn't have manual focus on it. Logitech improved that feature and more with this newer version of the same camera that came out in July. I was excited to see that they had changed that among other things! Just like my original quickcam pro, this one has the stand, which is good for sitting your cam when you aren't using it to clip on the top of your notebook. I have a toshiba 17" laptop, and this cam fits perfectly on the top of it. Have dark rooms? No problem... the low light technology on this webcam is the best I've seen. Over the course of 5 years, I have bought about 4 webcams and this cam by far is the best in dark room settings. The previous quickcam pro I have works great too... I use this cam to talk to friends on aim, and they have ichat. Works great. They can't believe all I have on my desk is one lamp on the low setting and they can see me perfectly clear, when they have to turn on all the lights in their room so I can see them! Another thing too is the 2 megapixel video .. it's pretty awesome. And you can take photos in 8 megepixels! There aren't many webcams out there that do that. If you buy a webcam with a 1 megapixel video or lower, you get what you pay for and it's going to look awful.
One thing about this camera, which I just asked the logitech customer support on their message boards about, is about the frame rate. It's supposed to be up to 30 frames, yet this one seems a bit slow. My other quickcam pro didn't seem to have any problems with the frame rate, yet this one does for some reason. It's almost a ghostly effect when you move. Which really isn't that big of a deal, but it would be nice if it didn't have that or you could adjust how fast it picks up the images it captures. Or maybe it's just a problem on my computer's end. Other than that this camera works great and I would recommend it to everyone.
Customer Review: My Second-ever Webcam . . .This One is Fun!
Summary: 5 Stars
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
Before I got the Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks, my only experience with webcam occurred years ago. Then, the quality of the video was dreadful with bad lighting, weak colors, and pixilated images. Adding to my displeasure was a big, clunky webcam that took up unnecessary desk space - and I retired from webcams almost as soon as I used one.
Now I've changed my mind. This tiny camera (just a wee bit larger than a matchbox) produces images I can be proud of, sharp and colorful, correctly lit even with back lighting. Its close-ups are free of major distortion. The Carl Zeiss Company, long admired by serious photographers, makes this webcam's lens. The quality shows.
If there's a flaw in this webcam, it's the audio . . . acceptable but not stellar like the images. The range seems limited, cutting off extreme ends of the audible spectrum. However, because this may be due in part or whole to the quality of the sound card on my notebook, and because I am not an audio expert, I am unwilling to mark down the webcam.
The QuickCam Pro is good enough to produce serious business video applications or to use for casual conversations. I have not tested it on Skype because I do not use Skype.
Suggestions for future versions:
1. Include a longer cord on the camera so I can use it further away from my notebook.
2. Create an entirely portable version, powered by batteries, that I can take anywhere without attaching it to my notebook at all.
Overall, a great little webcam that's loads of fun. Five stars!
Customer Review: Say Cheese
Summary: 5 Stars
Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
Given that the pace of technology is rapidly out-stripping itself, it is getting harder and harder to stay caught up, let alone understand and competently (and completely) use the technology you may have.
This little cam is an excellent solution: a classy item that does most of the hard work for you. The picture is always crisp and self-correcting, the image adjusts to pretty much any lighting conditions, and there's even a user-friendly control panel that lets fussier owners manipulate virtually every aspect of the device. As far as pure mechanics go, the Logitech QuickCam is pretty much everything you could hope for or want, short of a lens that automatically removes blemishes and fixes your hair for you.
Actually, this cam isn't far off from that, either. The programming includes a whole host of avatars, facial additions, fun filters, and video masks that, while mostly goofy, are also endlessly amusing. With one-button recording capabilities and an astonishingly thorough range of connectivity, this clever little unit will appeal as much to the child in you, as to the techno-phile.
Clipable to the backs of most slimmer notebooks (but packaged also with a mostly-sturdy free-stand for those of you with thicker models), the Logitech QuickCam Pro with its crystalline clarity and ease of use will make you wonder why you ever bothered with its grainy and glitchy predecessors. And although it may not come with Anti-Acne technology or Corrective Cowlick computational abilities, it'll definitely make you look better than you ever have before.
Customer Review: Nearly Excellent but Flawed Optics
Summary: 3 Stars
Update: A replacement unit has good focus from side to side. The focusing defect I saw appears to be unit specific. Check your unit for focus uniformity across its entire field of view to avoid a defective unit. Once you have a good one, the image quality is excellent.
This webcam does produce a better picture than the built-in camera of a MacBook. Yes, it works with with Mac OS 10.4.10 natively as a UVC device. HOWEVER, the unit I purchased had a focusing flaw. The left side of the image was always slightly out of focus while the right side of the image was well focused. As a result, the very nice lens system just could not get the entire picture right. This focusing flaw was not so noticeable at iChat's low 640 x 480 resolution, but if native resolution images were captured using other webcam capture software, the left 1/3 of the image was clearly out of focus. I believe the unit had its glass lens tilted relative to the CCD preventing it from ever bringing both sides into focus. As a result, the camera's touted superior lens was largely negated.
However, it is otherwise an impressive camera which delivers better tolerance to poor lighting than the built-in MacBook camera. The increased resolution CCD is impressive (in the focused portions of he picture) and gamma response yielded an image which conveyed greater depth.
If the entire image were in focus simultaneously (in full resolution captures) I would have given this using 5 stars. With the optical flaw, I can only give it 3/5. It is possible that other specimens may have better alignment between the lens and CCD, but without testing several more units, I don't know if the problem is a design flaw or simply a single missaligned unit.
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Customer Review: Its Fine If It Works
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this item last October. It worked for a few months with Skype. I used once a week at most. Then it intermittently worked. I contacted Logitech customer service, usual troubleshooting, confirmed it was a probem with the web cam. I even bought a replacement one before I realized it was covered under warranty. New one works great. The problem is Customer Service, which seems more like Customer Bullying. They are making is difficult to return and it is a long process. They wanted me to do this with my amazon receipt
> Make a hardcopy of your receipt in your computer by either taking a screenshot or scanning it.
> open the file then press the Print Screen button on your keyboard.
> open MS Paint in your computer then press Ctrl + V. This will paste the receipt to your ms paint.
> click on File > Save As. Please make sure to change the file format to JPEG (second drop down menu )
> then save. you now have a jpeg format of your receipt then when replying to the email from logitech, just
> attach the receipt file by clicking on the attach icon ( ussualy a paperclip logo) then send.(Their incorrect spelling)
Also, please include yopur phone number on your next reply. (their incorrect spelling)
I never even made it to Step 1. I am reasonably intelligent and know a lot about computers. That's why I call this bullying. If you can deal with customer "service" like this, buy this product, but just remember if anything goes wrong, no guarantees. There are a lot of disgruntled customers out there in cyberland. In my case, thank goodness Amazon Customer Service stepped in and helped immensely to resolve this problem.