Philips Vesta PCVC680K Web Camera

Following delivery of my new Dell Dimension 8100 I decided to invest in a Web Camera. Not knowing too much about these I took the advice of a good friend and picked the Philips PCVC680USB. Before going into details about this particular camera let me give you a brief explanation of how a web camera works. Basically a normal camera lets light enter through a lens which then makes contact with a light sensitive film, changing the film’s chemistry and capturing a negative of the image which is then revealed when developed. A digital camera captures an image with a light sensitive array instead of film. The most common array is a Charge-Coupled Device ...

Philips Vesta PCVC680K web camera A high tech, plug and play web camera, which is compact and easy to use (Via a USB Universal Serial Bus socket). With a built in microphone, this camera sells for about £100, and is in the higher end of the market. It is available from most good computer peripheral stockists. The camera and software are compatible for computers with a processor speed of 166 mhz and above. You are required to have at least 16 mb of ram and 10mb of free hard drive space to install and use the software that is supplied with the camera. Playback capabilities are an advantage as the quality built in microphone affords you the ability ...

This camera is wonderfull, magnificent and a dream to use. Once you get it working. That last part is mainly for Windows 2000 and Windows XP users. There is a little issue where the operating system locks access to files required for updating during the installation process. This is a non-issue and the philips pc-camera homepage tells you how to get around this. It's also worth getting the updated drivers as the performance improves by about 25% when they're in and running. The quality at 640x480 is superb, so everything lower is greata s well. Audio quality is soo good from this that I use it with dragon dictate for dictation. Honestyl. I was ...