Rating: 
Summary: Poor low-light performance, VERY high CPU
Review: With a VERY bright light positioned right over your head, you can adjust the controls on this camera to do 24 fps on a USB 2.0 port, at 320x240 capture resolution. It will NOT do 30.On a Pentium III 900 MHz machine, it uses about 85% of the CPU, which I consider to be inordinately high. Under average room light, the picture is so dark that it is unusable. If you turn on the "low light" option, you get a good picture, but the frame rate drops to about 9 fps. In a USB 1.1 port, it self-limits to only 10 fps, so be aware of this. Installation on Win 2000 and Win XP went very smoothly. Under bright light, the video image is EXCELLENT. But it is quite impractical to ever have the amount of light this camera really needs to perform well. I was sitting directly under a lamp, and it still wasn't really enough. Maybe two 150-watt photo floods would do it. Compared to the Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000, I'd say the Veo has slightly better video quality. But the Logitech far and away gets my vote, because it uses about half the CPU of the Veo, and can do a full 30 fps, EVEN in low and average room light, and even at 352x288 as well as 320x240. The Logitech can even achieve this in a USB 1.1 port.
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