show us yer mug ! (Logitech Quickcam Pro)

Member Name: tedloon

Product:	Logitech Quickcam Pro
Date:	06/12/01 (414 review reads)
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Advantages: Small, Clips to my flatscreen :D, high res

Disadvantages: loose movement mechanism, heavy cable, .

`m new to webcams so did some research before deciding which one to buy. The Logitech Quickcam Pro 3000 seemed to offer what I was looking for at a very reasonable price. It arrived from Dabs.com within a few days, as promised, and I was pleased with my choice. It looks good and performs well.

The software installation from the CD was a piece of cake, with no problems. The camera plugged in and drivers loaded as they should.

The Quickcam software is impressive and easy to use, I particularly liked the movement detection snapshots.

The pictures are at their best in good lighting conditions but worked reasonably well even with poor lighting. There are good tools to change the colour balance, switch to black & white, invert or mirror the images. I also liked the single button to set a picture as the desktop wallpaper.

The pictures and sound come up in Netmeeting with no hitches.

The only criticism is that the USB cable is heavyish and the camera swivel joint is not stiff enough, hence to keep the camera from falling over or moving out of alignment, I had to resort to bluetack.

All in all an excellent buy.

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