5.0 Megapixel USB PC Webcam Camera for PC Laptop Notebook

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 0.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001M53FX6
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #346 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)

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• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 25, 2008

Product Description

Product Description

Connect with your world day or night using our Webcam with Night Vision. 4 bright LEDs will illuminate the darkness, with automatic brightness adjustment and color compensation. A handy scroll wheel on the webcam cord controls the LEDs. Great for Skype, ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, or net meetings!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars nice cheap web cam, January 28, 2009

By	Jon Norris (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This is a great little USB web cam for very little money. When testing a dozen or so different web cams, I found this the easiest to use and the least expensive.

This cam does not come with software, and does not have fancy features like zoom, autofocus, and subject tracking. It is fixed focal length and focus, like a cheap still camera.

I found the lack of software to be a plus, as most all webcam software borders on being malware with its invasive and obnoxious effects on Windows. I have not tried it with Linux yet, but will update this review when I do.

This camera worked out of the box on standard Windows camera drivers, and for simple web conferencing, it is great. I have used it with the Elluminate service, and it functions quite adequately.

If you need a basic, generic, USB webcam and don't want to shell out nearly $100 for a good one, give this beastie a try. It isn't fancy, but it works.


UPDATE FEB. 2009

I have also now tried this camera on the MSI Wind Barebone computer running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. It works well with Linux, too.

UPDATE July 2009

I recently got my 5th one of these cameras, and it arrived damaged (poor packaging). I emailed HDE through Amazon and immediately got a response and they sent a new camera. Customer service like that is just darned hard to find. Good job!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Web Cam, November 8, 2008

By	Helene M. Muller - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Brought this camera to chat with my husband in Iraq. Camera works GREAT! Very clear picture. Im actually buying another one for my husband so he doesnt have to share. The only thing to make this better would be a built in mic.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I ordered 1, then 2 more & plan to order more, October 9, 2008

By	Josh Assing - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

We ordered one of these as a "test" -- the price & claim was too good to pass up.
Tested it w/o custom drivers (Windows XP) and it was recognized & was perfect. Quality was awesome -- focused fast.
Worked in low lights; and in really low lights there's a rheostat switch on the cable to increase the lights (visible white LED)
Works well. We ordered 2 more for a video conference test.
Pending results & what my client says -- we will order more for his company in-house conferencing system.

The "windows" drivers recognize it and works out of the box -- no drivers came with it; images at 640x480 only with our software... Hopefully the custom drivers will increase that.

Recommended -- for the price, you can't go wrong!

Update: There are no custom drivers for this; so you're stuck with whatever windows recognizes it as, in my case (on 3 os's) it's 640x480.