Logitech QuickCam Communicate Deluxe

List Price: $99.36 Discount Price: $43.74

Features:

• Product Type - WebCam
• Microphone - Microphone built-in
• Manufacturer Warranty - 2 years
• -- High-performance sensor: Capture finer, more accurate photos¿up to five megapixels (software-enhanced).
• -- RightLight2 Technology: Adjusts intelligently to produce the best possible images in dim light or backlighting.

Customer Reviews:

The Quick Cam was surprising [Posted on 2008-04-07]
1. The Quick cam has a built in microphone.
2. The software uses the computer microphone as a default. So you will need to change the settings for the microphone to use the quick cam microphone
3. The face recognition software can detect the eyes and mouth regions. This is not advanced visual recognition; the software does not recognize mouth formations of sounds; instead the software detects movement of the mouth, face direction, an eyebrow movement; images in real time can be superimposed on the indivdual or a complete avatar representation substitutes.
4. The time lapse and motion sensing capabilities were excellent. The image quality was good.
5. The web cam does not have a wireless feature.
6. The web cam does not come with single frame to animation software.

machine dependant [Posted on 2008-05-05]
i have a fairly well equipped desktop that i use for image/video editting along with all the other bits of stuff that one typically has. i attempted to install the logitech software probably a dozen different ways (each attempt requires 2 reboots). in protected mode, out of protected mode, install portion of the software first, then the remainder of it, finishing the install with plugging in the hardware, with no other usb devices plugged in, with other usb devices plugged in. ALL failed. the help from logitech was a good effort but not worth much. i have asked for debugging software from them, nothing. i have volunteered to help debug the issue, nothing.

on the other hand, in a fit of desperation, i tried to install it on my wifes laptop. first time everything worked perfectly and the device has performed as advertised!

i used to be a big believer in the logitech products but recent purchases have caused me to consider more carefully the items i purchase from them.

Good cam [Posted on 2008-05-14]
Bought this cam for my wife since she was having problems with offbrand webcams. Easy install and setup. Only problem is it does have the built in mic (which isn't all that bad actually to my amazement). The built in mic is only an issue because it ALWAYS wants to be the primary like all others. Overall though a great camera for those who only want to plug a wire in and install software.

Good but not that great either. [Posted on 2008-06-11]
Granted this "WEBCAM" is better than a lot of the others out there it doesn't do as good as it should in my opinion.

Facial Tracking - it's nice but it just doesn't ALWAYS work, and it will loose tracking every few minutes and so on. If you are like me and you are tired a lot and or your eyes aren't the A typical person, another words your eyes might be slightly closed more than a wide eyes person, it wont be able to keep track of your face. Why it's not able to recognize you IDK. You should be able to program it for your face but it's only a generalized programing for a typical face, or atleast what it thinks is a typical face.

Video quality - If you want to just hook this up to your computer and record some video with your friends don't bother. It's a waist. It's way to chopy to work that way, it's frame rate is set to low and you can't change it to help things out and smooth out the video. So you are stuck with choppy videos recorded.

WEBCAM - the fact this a camera that is hooked to your computer leads me to expect a lot more from this device than what's given. This is no cheap webcam but yet it is still out performed by many a small handheld camera on the market at this point that also can be used a webcam when needed.

I should have just returned this cam but I waited to long and got tied up with work. Yeah it does it's WEBCAM part nicely and all but for the price it's a WAIST! Get a cheaper cam that will do similar, your video quality will be about the same.

If you want to be able to get video with your friends you're simply going to have to look elsewere or you'll have chopy frames like a son of a gun.

You'd think for the price when not operating as a webcam it would be able to up it's frame rate/recording abilities and give you smoother video, but no I was wrong. I guess I expect too much from a device with a high price tag.

Great webcam! [Posted on 2008-07-02]
Works better than advertised w/ Vista Home premium.
But, you can only use logitech's drivers. You can not use Logitech's software or it causes problems...

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