Logitech Quickcam Communicate Web Cam

by Logitech

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002UM05Q
• Item model number: 961362-0403
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 8, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Why just type when you can smile, laugh, and make faces? The QuickCam Communicate makes it incredibly easy to communicate over the Internet with video and audio. So easy to set up, you'll be sharing your smiling face with friends around the world in minutes! Get everything you need to start exploring video communications on the Web with the QuickCam Communicate. Just install the software, plug in the webcam to your USB port, and start communicating with friends and family.

Instantly attach photos & video to email with the QuickCam Communicate Web Cam.

The QuickCam Communicate works with a rapidly growing number of video applications, allowing friends and family to add a more personal touch to their communication. It’s simple to use with all the top video instant messaging applications, including MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo! Instant Messenger, and Windows Messenger (on XP). The QuickCam Communicate also makes it easy to take and send still photos and video clips to family and friends via e-mail. It features an integrated microphone that allows people to add audio to video clips or Instant Messaging applications. The package includes a flat-panel monitor clip, so the webcam can comfortably sit atop any monitor of notebook PC display. Make live video calls to family. The next best thing to being there in person. Now you can make two-way real-time video calls. With the built-in microphone, it's easy to see and hear loved ones miles away. Add video to your instant messages. Video-chat with one click using MSN Messenger, AIM/AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo! Messenger, or Windows Messenger (on XP). It's easy, fun, and far more personal than ordinary text messaging. Instantly attach photos and video to email. It only takes one click to attach and send a photo or video. Just shoot and click. No downloading. Set up your own webcam. You can automatically capture and update images to your website every few seconds.

Product Specifications Sensor: High quality QVGA CMOS Video Capture: Up to 640 x 480 pixels Still Image Capture: Up to 640 x 480 pixels Video File Type: AVI Still Image File Types: BMP, JPEG Frame Rate: Up to 30 frames per second (with recommended system) Field of View: 42 degrees horizontal Optics: Fixed focus USB 2.0 and 1.1 compliant Cable length: 6 ft. thin USB cable Applications for Windows: Live video calls with free trial of Logitech VideoCall for broadband Live video integrated with MSN Messenger Live video on AIM/AOL Instant Messenger Works with Yahoo! Messenger Works with Windows Messenger (XP only) One-click video email Capture stills; record videos Web camming

Product Description

Logitech Quickcam Communicate Webcam 961362-0403 - The QuickCam Communicate makes it incredibly easy to communicate over the Internet with video and audio. Just install the Windows compatible software, plug in the web cam to your USB port, and start communicating with friends and family.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Camera Overall, November 29, 2004

By 

Awesom-O (Santa Barbara, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Logitech Quickcam Communicate Web Cam (Personal Computers)

This is a decent camera overall. It seems to the the midline Logitech camera, and it's very easy to set up. The software is pretty non-intrusive overall, which is nice, because I hate having to install extra stuff on my computer.

The camera gives a decent picture, and it is indeed a fixed focus, as was mentioned above. It comes with a little stand, and also another adapter thing for use on a notebook or thin LCD screen, which has been immensly helpful for me and my ThinkPad.

It works flawlessly with MSN Messenger, and the built in mic works fine, and according to the other end of the conversation, sounds better than a phone call, quality wise.

Overall I'd buy it again. If you need something simple, that is essentially plug-and-play after the small install, then get this camera.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars So-so. Go with the 4000 Pro instead., July 8, 2005

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Keith "kc31824" (STAMFORD, CT, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Logitech Quickcam Communicate Web Cam (Personal Computers)

I compared this with the Logitech Quickcam 4000 Pro.

Both are:
- Easy to install, plug and play, no issues
- Have great software, solid, etc.
- Robust, reliable.

However:
- This one is less expensive
- The 4000 pro has CONSIDERABLY better image quality. I found this one to be very grainy and borderline unacceptable.

If price is the primary concern, this one isn't a disaster and it didn't have quality problems.

However, if you can afford the added cost, you'll be happier with the pro.

29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As seen on Star Trek, February 23, 2005

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OverTheMoon ([e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Logitech Quickcam Communicate Web Cam (Personal Computers)

First of all, this is probably what you are looking for, unless you want to be able to take photographs above 640 x 420 resolution, zoom or focus, but then you are looking for a pro webcam, and there are one or two here, but you are better spending your $100 in a digital photography shop. For the rest of you that just want a plug n' play digital camera that not only looks great but doesn't smash to pieces by the end of the week because it fell off the monitor, at an affordable price, actually very cheap for what it does, then the Logitech Quickcam Communicate WebCam is exactly what you need... and what everyone else owns.

Do not looks fool you. This black orb is just bigger than an egg and does not come on a flat triangle base as advertised, but a claw grip that you can bend around almost anything but is especially designed for LCD monitors, but has no problem with CRT or desks. In fact it has the same grip as the Quickcam pro model from Logitech and maybe if you look at this products photographs you can see it. Okay, so that is your stand. The camera itself looks like HAL from 2001. Pity the central camera lens doesn't glow red, ha aha. It even lights up blue on top when on. Very snazz camera, period.

The ball orb camera thing must click into the stand. The directions do not make this very clear and some may be inclined to just let the camera orb rest on the stand, but it clicks into place so that it can bend and rotate on its axis firmly attached to the claw grip. The cable is a direct camera to USB2 that runs about the height of an average person, so if you want it to see further you need a USB2 to USB2 extension. However the cable is adequate for most.

With XP driver installation is crazy at best. Do not use the windows drivers or the webcam may cause Windows crashing. Do not plug in the webcam. Insert the CD. Install the driver software. Then you are prompted to plug in your webcam and follow what Logitech tell you to do. Okay, now you have the camera set so you can take photographs and camera video with it. XP just crashes the cam if you do not use the Logitech drivers.

One last tip. Avoid lighting at the camera directly by using a reading light behind the camera aimed at you. This will boost your image quality considerably. The autofocus is near perfect for the price. You will not have to adjust this camera except to move it around.

In short, this is what you should have unless you want zoom, focus and high quality photographic images. You can use this for free with Yahoo messenger or MSN. 320 x 240 is a fine resolution to run at. This camera can do 640 x 420.

Just get it, call home, force them to upgrade to broadband and end those $100 transatlantic phone calls. FREE VID-PHONE if you have a microphone! In which case see into getting yourself a gaming headset or similar.