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Summary: Only Reason I use it, It was Free
Review: and I want my money back.
A friend of mine gave me this for X-mas and It seems to crash Paltalk all of time. Focus is always an issue and it seems to zoom the picture too much
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Summary: IBM Video Cam from Earthlionk
Review: I did get this camera (the writer preceding this review is in error on one part), the USB version as an inducement to subscribe to Earthlink for a short period of time with a penalty for early termination. With the junk camera I received, I'd like to see them "enforce" a penalty! Biggest problem is that it's focus will not improve as well as the lighting problem and both of these problems are mentioned in other reviews. I have a couple of other cameras that are less to purchase if price is a consideration but both are substantially better cameras. My favorite is the QuickCam although mine is the parallel port version that creates a problem for me only because I can't keep my printer and camera connected to my PC at the same time. Hence, the other two are USB with converters to switch them to the serial port if I should desire. I bought my son the Logitech camera (USB). Software program for the Logitech is great also. The IBM installation software gave me a migraine at first but I finally got the thing installed and it works but the picture is really poor quality and no way to fix it.
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Summary: a waste of money
Review: I have had nothing but problems with this camera. The manual focus doesn't add focus to anything, and it is difficult to get the light exactly right for the camera to work well. The program even caused my computer to crash due to major incompatibility problems. Xirlink Tech Support was of no help whatsoever - they don't even answer their phone (you have to call long distance and leave a message).
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Summary: It worked for me
Review: I honestly dont understand why all the reviewers had bad experiences with this product. It was completely effortless to install for me. I got the latest driver on the IBM website and it is working fine. I dont use the software that comes with it. I mainly use it for netmeeting and other videoconferencing applications. Although this product was a little more expensive then other netcamera's it is afterall an IBM product and most IBM products are slightly more expensive then their counterparts in their respective categories. It did everything i wanted it to do and i would recommend it. My guess is the problem that the other reviewers are having has something to do with the version of windows they are using. I used this product on both ME and 98SE and it was flawless.
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Summary: go for it
Review: i just wanted a cheap camera after watching american pie! and this one was only $50 after the rebate...but i didn't get it here. anyway, the picture is clear, just don't sit in the dark... works great with the ICU program.
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Summary: Poor quality and unstable - I'm getting rid of mine!
Review: I plugged the IBM camera into my USB port and installed the software, and...I could not get an image to appear on the screen. After a couple of hours of trouble-shooting I discovered that this camera is not compatible with all USB ports, so you have to use a different driver which doesn't work as well. Choppy, low-quality video. I strongly discourage anyone from buying this product. FYI, this is not an IBM designed/produced product - they simply put their logo on a no name brand which they clearly should have researched more.
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Summary: Not worth the money...you could do better!
Review: I purchased the program origionally without doing my homework. At the time it was an 'ok' camera, but I would never buy another one like this. The reason that I purchased it is due to the 'stitcher' program (for making 360' Quicktime video files)that was bundled with it. ~ At the same time "you get what you pay for". Most people want a high quality camera, but don't feel the $110 (or more) for that technology is worth the price. Even so...it would be nice if these 'low end' cameras would do a better job.
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Summary: Installs easily enough, but video quality is very poor
Review: I purchased this camera because it was from IBM...my experience with IBM equipment has been, until this point, very good. They make quality items (this camera notwithstanding). The camera software installed easily in win2k, albeit none of the autorun stuff worked and I had to manually check device manager to make sure the camera had been installed. So this was not really a problem. The problem is the very poor video quality and the very poor controls: there is little a user can do to improve image quality. *extremely slow frame rate
*very poor color balance and control
*focuses poorly
*EXTREMELY poor lighting control (either grossly over or under exposes images). There's a reason this thing is selling for half-price!
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Summary: There are better buys out there
Review: I received this IBM webcam free when I signed up for broadband with Cox. For FREE it's fine. I'm just glad I didn't have to pay for even the shipping on it. It say's 30 FPS, but it doesn't keep up to even some slow hand clapping. Images are slow and grainy.
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Summary: I could get something better
Review: ok. This is not a great web-cam, but as far as I know, It is working good enough for me. but when I'm looking around the other stores for other brands of web-cams I can find some other interesting web-cams for less money. I recommend you one of the logitech cameras. they are good for a cheaper price. BUT. DO NOT BUY THIS CAMERA... The lighting is terrible. believe me.I have a hard time looking good into this s**t.
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