Logitech Quickcam Orbit WebCam

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• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000DBMKK
• Item model number: 961310-0403
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #30,582 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 14, 2004

Product Description

Product Description

You've never seen anything like the unique combination of form and function of the QuickCam Orbit. It features a black, ball-shaped camera that sits atop a nine-inch-high stand at your eye level. Why? So that you'll get optimal face time during your video calls or video instant messaging (IM) sessions. And when you move, it actually follows you around! The QuickCam Orbit mechanically and automatically turns left and right for almost a 180-degree horizontal view or up and down for almost 90-degree top-to-bottom view. So your smiling face will always stay in the picture.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

105 of 118 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Please note that USB 2 here does not mean USB 2 high speed!, December 10, 2003

By	Stephen Prior (Danbury, CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is not mentioned online anywhere, but I've seen the box first hand and while the camera will connect to a USB 2 port, it does not function at the USB 2 high speed, rather it works only at the USB 1.1 speed. I believe this means that you are NOT going to be able to do 640x480 at 30FPS. Otherwise the resolution specs are nice and it's probably a good camera. As long as you aren't fooled into thinking that it's a USB 2 high speed device and expect too much, you will probably not be disappointed.

70 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Logitech Quckcam Orbit Problem Fixed Tilt Pan, March 20, 2004

By	"gregkaleta" (Lexington Park, MD USA) - See all my reviews

I am a seasoned pc user, I found the features to be great. The problems started as soon as I installed the camera though. First I plugged it in... Windows XP didn't find any drivers. I unplugged the camera and installed the software from Logitech (newly downloaded of course). I always chuck the original cd, newest drivers are always on line. The computer restarted and locked up (Windows XP). Turns out this camera likes a powered usb hub, I moved it to the powered hub. I restarted again and all was working... BUT
Using the pan and tilt features I found the camera only moved a smidge at a time, although the demo had the thing zipping around freely. I read that the software should be reinstalled, NOT... after the uninstall process Norton 2004 password manager crashed. I reinstalled the software and had the same pan and tilt problem, but Norton was alive again. It dawned on me that the data transfer must be intensive and I switched the usb connector from the 1.1 hub to the 2.0 card (guess that's what the long cable is for, NICE, my computer is in the closet). Now it works PERFECTLY, I am IMPRESSED and I will keep it!

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Face tracker kind of works...., October 10, 2005

By	Lummie - See all my reviews

This is the first webcam I've owned, so I thought I'd pay that bit extra to ensure it was of good quality. The pictures are excellent. The face tracking does work, it's just that our office is in the basement and if the face tracker loses me, then it focuses on the ceiling light and stays there! I bought one of these for my family in the UK as well, and the webcam images are brilliant. The only microphone we have is the one in the webcam, and the sound is perfect. I would definitely recommend this webcam to anyone - even my 10 year old daughter can use it!