Rating: Summary: Ready, Set, Go...It's that easy Review: We just had a baby and decided to buy a webcam so that we could add some video when we chat with our parents who live abroad.The Quick Cam Pro 4000 was easy to install - just install the software, connect the webcam to the USB port and you are ready to go (well almost, and this is the one complaint I have with this product) It seemed to not work with MSN Messenger 6.0 and repeatedly asked me to install 6.1 even though I had installed it. This happened whenever I clicked on the logitech icon on the taskbar. When I started MSN Messenger and then sent a webcam invitation to someone, it worked fine. Apart from that, this product is amazing and I would highly recommend it to anyone considering a webcam. Also, Amazon has the lowest prices compared to the merchants who sell this product. The software for photo management is limited, so you are better off with either Photoshop or something else.
Rating: Summary: Excellent product for price Review: The Logitech Quickcam Pro is a huge step up from our previous webcam (an earlier Quickcam) With this product the image quality has risen greatly and you no longer have to be in a very bright room to get a good picture. In the advanced settings you can even select if you are in daylight or under fluorescent lights to improve the quality again. When taking still images you get 1.3 mega pixels and that was good for regular digital cameras up until a couple of years ago. If you are looking for a webcam in this price range then I'd definitely go with this one as to get any improvement in quality you'll really need to spend a lot of money.
Rating: Summary: Awsome Cam! Highly Recommend Review: I am new to using web cams but I do know a great product. The camera is extremly simple to setup, you'll be up and going within a matter of minutes. The picture quality is excellent! The room can be completly dark and the light from the monitor is enough to have a great picture. The camera auto focuses great! The camera and stand are sturdy and do not move out of place. The software is lacking in options however I don't imagine anyone buying the camera to use with the software. I've used the cam on pretty much all of the instant messangers and it work great! There is no choppy frame transition, completly smooth! I did find it works best with MSN messenger 6.1. Highly recommend this product!
Rating: Summary: good 'cam that can take decent pictures, but bad software Review: This camera is really good for several reasons. 1) it makes a good Windows PC webcam, 2) you can take both pretty good still pictures and pretty good videos --but not top notch of course and 3) you can adjust the settings with the software. The main drawback is that the software is pretty lowsy, "mickeymouse-like". Basically my opinion after using it for a while is that it is a good camera that comes with bad software --and the mic is useless if you already have one.
Rating: Summary: Good image quality, very poor service Review: I gave 1 star for good image, sound quality. Stand is also good looks and feels good. SO why only 1 star? Because don't know whether Logitech will provide driver support for next release of Mac OS X. I bought a QuickCam Pro 3000 and it supports only Mac os 9, but not 10! :( When I contacted Logitech support they said me to buy a QuickCam Pro 4000. I borrowed one from a friend and tested. It worked well. But I couldn't make my mind to buy this poorly supported product. I thought when Apple releases its next version of OS, Logitech will not support for that and will say to buy a new camera. I can't trust logitech. I would buy an iSight, which works well with both Windows and Macintosh.
Rating: Summary: Easy to install and setup! Review: By far, one of the easiest and fastest setups & installations I've ever done. Within 10 minutes of opening the package we were up and running and our boys were able to wave to their grandma & grandpa! LOVE IT!!!!!! We'll be buying one for all of our family members so we can stay in touch!
Rating: Summary: what's the USB interface 1.1 or 2.0? Review: Logitech says USB 2.0 on the web, but amazon gives 1.1
Rating: Summary: Great CCD webcam for 50 bucks Review: It is a great difference between CCD and CMOS webcams. But the high price made me hesitated. When I saw the price dropped to 50 buck, I immediately bought it. It works superb, especially during night. Because I use webcam most at night, I like it very much. I will never try CMOS webcam anymore. I admit the 4000 model is not manufacturally elegant. It looks cheap. Also, it is bad that it can not stand on a LCD monitor.
Rating: Summary: Works well with MSN messenger. Review: I am a software developer who telecommutes full time from my home in WA to my job in AZ. I really like this webcam. It was easy to install and it is easy to use. The picture is great and the microphone works really well. MSN Messenger plays a big part in my communications with my colleagues and the Quickcam Pro works well with MSN Messenger. When people complain about the picture quality, you have to ask them "what software are you using and what kind of Internet connection do you have?" With MSN, if you choose the "Video Conversation" option, you will get the camera's best picture. But, if you choose the "Video Conference" option, the picture quality is not the best. This is an issue with the MSN Messenger software, not the camera.
Rating: Summary: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Review: I am new to web cams and this is my first. Thanks, Amazon, for shipping it so quickly! That was really excellent service. My system is a Dell 1.6Ghz Pentium IV running Windows98SE with 512 SDRAM, 20 Gbyte disk, not the fastest, but pretty fast. The Good: It is a small and stylish camera with a nice long USB cord, 7 or 8 feet. The picture quality is nothing short of excellent but being new to this I had to tweak it a lot. It sent a great live moving picture through IM to the UK and the Brit on the other end thought it was great. The camera takes really nice stills, too, and files them for you (a task I'd rather do myself, but...). It also has numerous picture size options up to "megapixel." The Bad: Logitech's software put 6 or 7 new icons on my desktop. I am very territorial about my desktop and I didn't like this; one would have been sufficient. Also, the software tried to sneak in a sale for RealPlayer which I don't want or need (I use MS MediaPlayer, it's free after all). Then I discovered the software shipped with it was an old version, and I had to download a newer version from Logitech...this took another ten minutes or so even at DSL speeds. The Ugly: This thing uses a LOT of system resources, and I should have known (Duh!) While using the cam, I noticed my cursor took seconds to respond and at times I thought my system was frozen. I had to use msconfig from "Run" to unclick all the Logitech programs that were starting up with my system start-up. I also had problems when shutting down programs to run a defrag routine, I keep getting that "Safe Mode" screen saying the system was dangerously low on resources. I admit some of these problems may be blamed on Windows98SE (a notoriously unstable OS) but they never happened before I installed the Logitech software. All in all the camera and its pics are great, and the camera is very, very sensitive to lighting. I just wish Logitech had considered that an end user might not want all the so-called "extras" in their software. "K.I.S.S.," I always say. Would I buy this camera again knowing what I know now? Yes. BUT...
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