HP KQ246AA 8.0 MP Deluxe Webcam

by HP

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 5 x 2.6 inches ; 3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001D8AGA2
• Item model number: KQ246AA#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (278 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #54 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Webcams
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 13, 2008

Product Description

HP's Deluxe Webcam has quick-launch buttons1 for chat, making videos, and taking photos, a 1.3 MP sensor, autofocus, and 8 MP photos are all included with our Deluxe Webcam. Use it with AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, or Yahoo Messenger.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

147 of 152 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Affordable, good performance webcam, June 13, 2009

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B. Vyas (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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Good product at a compelling price, small and compact, good if you need to travel with it. The hinge bracket used for placing it on a monitor/ laptop is ok, but it's a bit awkward for laptops and has doesn't secure very well.

I don't recommend installing all the Arcsoft s/w components, as this isn't needed for general operation, and it's horribly irritating and hard to remove; just install what you need to run the webcam with Skype/ video IM, if you are on Windows, this probably means you don't need to do anything.

4 stars - good price, good product, good picture, plug-and-play, not the best mount bracket for laptops.

90 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great little camera for Mac OS X computers, too., October 5, 2009

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P. Allen (DC) - See all my reviews
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The older style Apple monitors lack an iSight. And many monitors have no camera option whatsoever. Personally I use a Samsung high def TV as my monitor and of course it has no camera at all.

So I've been on the hunt for a well priced USB Video Class (or UVC) camera for a while. This was my choice and I couldn't be happier.

Plug it in, it works like a charm with iChat, Skype, Photo Booth, etc. The video is crisp, it works fairly well in low light, and it's more than enough camera for video conferencing and the like.

130 of 140 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If I was King of the world, November 3, 2009

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O. F. Mckinney "oliver" (pensacola, florida United States) - See all my reviews
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The camera, optically speaking, performs as promised. The picture quality is decent and it is small and light, easy to pack up and carry in my computer bag. I guess my one reason for not giving this a bunch of stars concerns the way the unit mounts on the screen. I wanted something that was versatile and able to fit the depth of several different screens and indeed it does that; however, the mechanism for holding on to the screen - does NOT! It opens and closes to fit but doesn't clamp via springs or any sort of tensioning apparatus so any movement of the usb cable will move the camera and has to be repositioned. Now you probably won't need to do this much unless you're moving things around you work area a lot, i.e. books, papers other peripherals. If I was King of the world, I'd rig some kind of adjustment that would produce more of a clamp effect. I got this product on the cheap using a coupon and no shipping cost so I can't complain too loudly. Just so you know.....