Customer Reviews

Logitech QuickCam Express (USB)

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I like the color orange. I like it a lot. I also like red. It's just that, crazy me, I don't like every image that I take with this cam to be red and orage. I like dots, too, but I don't like my pictures to look like a collection of orange and red wads of gum stuck to a wall. Do yourself a favor and spend the extra money to get a camera that's rated better than this one. I am returning it. Oh, plus the software that comes with it is a joke. Feh.

Well, I got this camera recently for 79 CAD at Staples and despite the bad reviews, it is easy to install and it works fine (it is probably good enough for most users). The image quality is not great but you can't expect a lot from a webcam. It works well with low light and it makes reasonably good videos. Don't try using it to take snapshots! The quality is awful! The software that came with is not very good and I didn't manage to broadcast videos using it (I had to download other softwares from the internet). The camera design is not too bad but I agree with one of the previous reviewers that said that the camera base doesn't hold it very well. For the same amount (or a little bit more) of money you can get detachable webcams that can be used to take snapshots and will produce images with the same quality.

I was searching for a new webcam as the one I currently have (a Xirlink IBM PC Camera Pro) is fine, but I wanted to add another on a second computer. First I tried the MicroInnovations PC350 cam, which had pretty poor image quality (especially in lowlight), so then I returned it for this Logitech Quick Cam Express. This Logitech was worse than the MicroInnovations! How's that for "brand name quality"? I was so disgusted with the poor quality of this camera's picture that I was shocked it was even being sold. It's picture looks like trying to tune into a TV station from Antarctica using the antenna from an old 70s color TV. Totally unacceptable by ANY standards, especially considering my three year old camera (which can now be purchased for LESS than this brand-new Logitech) completely surpasses this offering in every way. Isn't this stuff supposed to be getting better and cheaper all the time???

I purchased this camera on sale with rebates and paid much less than retail. The camera operates fine for me but the quality of the picture is not very good. If you have bright lighting it works fine although it is tough to get it to look focused unless what you are capturing is very close to the camera. The software that comes with it allows you to take snapshots and video clips. It provides software to broadcast your webcame to the world but you will need to eventually pay for a spotlife account and this is the only option given by the software. If you are buying this to just let the kids mess around and make little video clips or just for instant messenger duty it will work fine. Just don't purchase for the retail price! FIY - I have mine hooked to a HP N5495 PIII 1.06 GHZ 512 MB Win XP Home laptop. For the price I paid I'm satisfied with the results of this average beginner webcam.

Our's works great!!! Yes we do have some degree of the hue in the different lightening; but this is not a $100.00 webcam either. we use ours for chatting with friends & family on MSN & Yahoo Messenger. to the individual who mentioned that he could not operate his webcam on AOL; because " CAMERA WAS USED IN ANOTHER APPLICATION " message; you cant use webcams in two different applications at the same time. say you want to cam in Yahoo & MSN Messenger at the same time. You can only cam in one; and I believe this applies to ALL webcams. Mine works best at night with a lamp on next to me. We purchased ours online in a non retail packaging which is called OEM. which probably stands for Original Equipment something or other; and found that to be the best buy. It has the manual, USB, camera, stand & Software CD. One note to all potental buyers of webcams etc. ALWAYS INSTALL THE SOFTWARE FIRST, or this could impair the fuction of the unit or your PC, This most likely happened to those who have complained about their webcams here in the reviews.

I have owned / used this item for 1 year. The price is great - and it works very well for online messaging & chatting. Downside - focus is sometimes fuzzy, the base doesn't hold the cam well on top of my computer - i have to set it on a flat surface. Also, its not good for snapshots - only for online viewing. Sometimes the tint is a little green. But overall, for the price, it works well for a basic webcam.

I've owned and used probably 4 or 5 webcams over the years, and this one has been one of the worst. I bought it at Wal-Mart, because it was so cheap ($29?), and felt like I had nothing to loose in trying it. Well, it performs like a $29 webcam. The picture is pretty bad except under full sunlight. And no amount of tweeking with software controls can make a lower-light picture look decent. Grainy, bad contrast, and color-shifted.

This is the worst camera no matter what you spend for it! I had it installed and after 20 minutes uninstalled it!! I bought it because of the Logitech name. Won't rely on them for webcams... Very, very grainy picture with a lot of lag! Also very dark picture! I am running a Dell P4 Dimension 8300 with 512M RAM and Windows XP Home Edition.

Ive been using Quickcams for several years.. recently i was forced to replace my QuickCam VC because logitech cant figure out how to write a Win2000 driver for it. So i figured id get the QuickCam at the same price point that the VC was when I bought it. What a mistake.. the Express cam is junk.. total junk. The old VC cam had a crystal clear image. The Express' image is grainy, discolored, and unfocusable. Do not buy this cam. Its a complete waste of money. Im very surprised that Logitech even sells this thing as they have a reputation for quality products. Obviously they are going down hill.

3 days of tempermental tinkering with it to get it to work and I build computers for fun so I know it is not me being an idiot. Include that the software is a huge memeory hog that can only be uninstalled if you want it turned off. Then the Logitech Webcam software wants to nag you to update when the software is using versions of all the Instant Messengering services that has been update several times since their versions yet Logitech's site says I have the most reccent version of the software (mine is from 2003). Apparently Logitech has missed the advancements made recently.

To cap the whole experience off badly the web help is simply a reprint of the exact instructions included in the box. Isn't that a online manual not help?

Don't be a cheap-ass and buy this price leader. Cough up anything needed to get any web cam but this one. Web cams are not like mice where one is just about like the rest.

As for actual performance when and if the thing will work for you check the focal distance carefully. I recently noticed that no matter what I do my face at six feet away is never quite as crisp looking as the house across the street in the background behind me. Should a web cam be more focused on the distant than in close range.

Logitech has dropped considerably in my opinion after this 3-day nightmare because I wanted to save $20!