Logitech QuickCam Communicate Deluxe Webcam (Black)
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Logitech QuickCam Communicate Deluxe Webcam (Black)
Customer Review: Good for the price
Summary: 4 Stars
Reasonable price, avatar personalities, easy setup.I did research to use it on skypes. I would reccommend it to friend.
Customer Review: Great Product
Summary: 4 Stars
This Webcam does the job. Even a first timer can make this work. Great Product!Customer Review: Great Picture But RightLight2 Has Problems
Summary: 3 Stars
I replaced an old IBM webcam with this Logitec Communicate Deluxe (Don't know if this is the exact same one because there are several with the same name).
The picture quality is excellent and I really like the wide angle view. It does fairly well in low light situations, especially when you use the RightLight automatic settings (when RightLight works).
The camera is pointed out a window into a shaded atrium. But if I set it to use RightLight to automatically adjust the picture it switches back and forth from a light image to a dark image for several minutes until it finally stabilizes. It must do this when the light outside reaches a certain level since it happens every day at the same time of day. This wreaks havoc with my motion detection software because it automatically takes a picture with each change in lighting. So I had to turn off the automatic RightLight setting to prevent it from taking a bunch of pictures when there is no real motion going on.
The other problem I have is every once in a while it prompts me to turn on the RightLight setting. Even when I tell it to never use RightLight it still occasionally prompts me to turn it on. The camera stops working when this prompt is up. This is really annoying.
If Logitec can ever get their software perfected this might be a great webcam.
UPDATE: Logitec released an update to their software which seems to have fixed the RighLight problem.
Customer Review: Decent Webcam
Summary: 3 Stars
A decent overall web cam. The Logitech interface for the driver is fairly annoying and somewhat poorly planned out. The camera itself is good, showing good colors and picks up sound really well. The frame rate drops a lot if the auto lighting features are turned on, and I didn't notice any difference in picture or color quality with them off. The tracking is a gimmick, it did not work at all, actually messed up the camera with it turned on (camera would constantly zoom in and out of one spot). Didn't really use the picture taking aspect, but they are probably of similar quality of most cell phones. Overall a good camera, I would recommend, however, if you're going to spend 70$ (which is the retail) for this camera, why not add 30$ more and get the best Logitech offers. One more note, if you have bad to decent internet, and you're using this with an IM program (aol, msn instant messenger, yahoo) the frame rate will likely be terrible. When using a web cam with a program like that, the frame rate as well as most of the quality of the images/video depend on the internet speed, and that of the person on the other end, as well as the computers themselves.Customer Review: good but lack focus
Summary: 3 Stars
This is my first webcam, so, I don't have any others to compare with. I do, however, have played with built in webcams from the newer mac books as well as PC laptops own by friends. The webcam is nicely built and mounts securely on top of my LCD monitor. I got it primarily to use video chat through skype. It works well for that application. Install went well. I downloaded directly from logitech and did not use included CD. My only con is that it does not focus well at all. I knew it is a manual focus webcam. I used a white background with letters focus method. I set the white background on the chair at the my sitting distance and turn the dial till I can read the letters on the white background. The letters were never clear no matter how slowly I "tune" the dial. This translates to slightly fuzzy picture on the other side. My experience with built in notebook cameras were opposite. The are sharp and clear all the time. I got a huge rebate on it, so it doesn't bother me. But, I am hunting for a auto focus model for the future.