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Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 | 
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| Brand: Logitech
Category: CE
Buy New: £44.79
New (21) from £44.79
Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 118
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7.6 x 3.4
MPN: 960-000053
Model: 960-000053
EAN: 5099206002975
ASIN: B000T5GMJE
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Web camera - fixed | | • | Colour | | • | CMOS - 2,000,000 pixels | | • | 3.7 mm | | • | Automatic |
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Product Description
Enjoy image-perfect detail and clarity. Carl Zeiss optics and Autofocus keep images razor-sharp, even in extreme close-ups. Performance Carl Zeiss optics: Get more detail and clarity from Carl Zeiss optics. Logitech?s glass lens designed in collaboration with Carl Zeiss , the global leader in camera optics. Premium Autofocus: Your images stay razor-sharp, even in close-ups. HD video: Video calling and sharing has never looked so real at 960 by 720 pixels. Higher megapixel performance: A true two-megapixel sensor. Up to eight-megapixel* photos (enhanced). RightLight?2 Technology: Adjusts intelligently to produce the best possible images in dimly lighted or poorly backlighted settings. Integrated microphone with RightSound? Technology: Enjoy crystal clear conversations, free from echo** and annoying background noise. Ultra-wide field of view and intelligent face tracking: Keeps you right in the middle of the action. Fun and Versatile Logitech Video Effects?: Personalize your conversations with hundreds of avatars and face accessories that mirror expressions and motion. Downloadable Fun Filters: Add video effects like fisheye, ?50s movie, neon, and more. Bonus software: Use bundled HP Photosmart Essential software to capture, edit, customize, and print images. Universal monitor clip: Mounts easily on any type of display or notebook computer. In the Box: Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 Universal monitor clip 1.8 m USB cable QuickCam Software CD, including: Logitech QuickCam applications?Logitech Video Effects?, one-click video e-mail, QuickCapture for photos, webcamming software Applications for Windows ?Windows Live? Messenger, Skype? with free full-screen video calling, video-enabled AIM , Yahoo! Messenger with free video calling Bonus software?HP Photosmart Essential application for capturing, editing, customising, and printing images (Web download required) Quick Start guide 2-year
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Excellent. May 5, 2008
Adam
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Seeing as you can now buy a webcam for about 10 on some websites, why would you spend more dosh on a webcam currently priced at around 50? Simple answer is you get what you pay for.
The image quality is incredible, its very detailed and clear, not your usual "webcam" image at all, the clarity of the image is very impressive, even in very low level light it manages to make the image very clear. This is something that is well worth the money, it's beyond my expectations in terms of quality. The design of the webcam is simple and nice, when the camera is "live" the orange ring around the Logitech logo glows, a simple and possible Mac inspired touch. I'm pleased that the camera also works well with OS X which is pleasing. It may seem pricy for a webcam but its very impressive quality and you do certainly get what you pay for. Excellent!
 Very disappointed in Logitech April 27, 2008
Bert (UK)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Yes the camera looks good, hardware is good, even though the picture is slow to follow your moves, but be warned the software doesn't work as it should do. It has bugs and Logitech knows about it. I have contacted the Logitech technical several times, their online technical help was unable to help me so they asked me to call US. When I did the technical person new about the software problems and she asked me to wait until the new patch is available. Now when you pay 50 for a product you expect it to work perfectly fine, not wait for software patches and updates. Also they should warn people on their web site or on Amazon. I am using windows XP, not even Vista. I asked for compensation but they haven't replied to my emails. So I am very disappointed in Logitech!
Lier! April 23, 2008
J. Mears
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read everything of the above with the system requirements, it didn't say anything about needing SP2, and i cant get hold of SP2, and i spent 50 pounds on this camera and it dont work. i will keep it and i will suss a way of getting SP2 at some point.
Get your system requirements right next time!!
Don't be fooled April 11, 2008
Luis Morais (UK)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
The QuickCam Pro 9000 is a nice piece of hardware which given the price tag and the claims of achieving up to 1600x1200 HD video promises to attract a lot of attention.
I tested this webcam on a Pentium Quadcore with 4gb of RAM and a 500mb video card, Windows XP, and in no circumstance the video quality ever reached the 1600x1200 advertised. I downloaded and installed the latest software from Logitech and even so it never got to such huge resolution.
It reaches a maximum of 960x720 which would be more than sufficient, except for the fact that once you record any video on this resolution you will ask yourself what happened to the sharpness and colour you saw in the preview window.
The resulting videos are just as good (blurry, full of artefacts and blobs if you make sudden movements) as a YouTube video, something that could be equally achieved by a non-"HD" webcam costing one-third of the price. It makes one think whether the preview window IS the only thing that is sharp and not the video that is streamed.
In any case, if this webcam can really produce HD quality images, you shouldn't expect your friends and family on the other side of the world to be able to see you in crystal clear HD as most of the communication software around can only transmit a very limited amount of video data and resolution.
Just as with the claims of 1600x1200 HD video, you are left wondering how exactly you can take pictures that reach 8mp (interpolated) as advertised. Nevertheless the 2mp pictures are, unlike the recorded videos, sharp, which is always handy to those used to taking boring pictures of themselves in front of their computers (just a reality check, since you can't carry it anywhere, so why bother with 8mp of quality for shots that would do in 2mp anyway. If that had no impact on the price I wouldn't even mention but here's the reality check, alledgedly it doesn't work as advertised but you still pay the price for it).
RightLight is an interesting feature, it does equalise lighting conditions, but by sacrificing frames per second, in my set up I got the light right but any movement would blur the hell out of the image (not advised for Italians willing to talk to their mamas, you will look like the Flash), just turn it off and there is a major difference in video performance, unfortunately the money paid for the feature doesn't go back to your wallet.
Logitech doesn't provide any way for you to check how many frames the webcam is capturing but if you imagine that a movie is 24fps and looks pretty smooth, one could wonder whether the claims of up to 30fps are really practical in normal real-world conditions as it doesn't really look that smooth even when you get the video down to 640x480.
By the way, there are no options that will let you select the video format, you can only save videos as wmv files. With so few features available it is no wonder that what Logitech calls the "user's guide" is in fact a quick installation guide with marketing fluf about RightLight2 crammed in 7 pages the size of a glass mat. It simply says nothing about anything.
Last but not least, the so-called Universal Clip (and here I am already giggling just by writing the word "universal" and "clip" which makes one think it is indeed a well-thought piece of this product) is in fact a hinge you balance at the top of the monitor, it doesn't clip to anything, it doesn't hold to anything it just lays on the edge of a monitor, something a 5-year would have devised. Tilt the monitor it falls, move it it falls. And no, there is no chance for you to know whether you are using it right because the "user's guide" doesn't even mention it.
All in all, what this webcam seems to bring as "innovations" seems to be features that might be possible to be replicated at a lab environment (perhaps) but alledgedly not at a real-world scenario. It seemed that what you see in the preview window is not what you get at all. It can be eye-catching at first but when you stop to analyse what one is getting on the other side, it makes one wonder if it really is worth paying the price tag for a set of features that apparently can not all be used together even at one of the latest QuadCore PCs.
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UPDATE - QuickCam Pro 9000 can cause your video players and World Of Warcraft to stop working.
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Be aware that depending on your codec settings (codecs are little drivers that code and decode video formats such as WMV, AVI, MPG etc..) installing the Quickcam Pro 9000 might cause your video players to not play any videos anymore. People who are dependent on third party codecs installed will be very likely to suffer from this problem.
Players of World of Warcraft might be unable to play the game after installing the Quickcam Pro 9000 due to the error:
"Failed to find a suitable display device"
In order to sort this problem one will have to delete the Config.wtf file inside the WTF folder in your World Of Warcraft folder, then just restart the computer. You will lose all your video settings, interface settings and whatever you tweaked and personalised in the WoW control panels. Basically everything will go back to the default.
I need to clarify that a few posts below mistakenly point the driver issues back to the operating system, in this case Windows Vista. This is far from the truth, I am afraid to say, as it would be the same thing as throwing an iPod in the bath and then blame the water for not being compatible with the gadget.
It is Logitech's responsibility to create drivers that make their product work in an operational system. If the driver is not installing properly, it is either Logitech's fault for not instructing people correctly (putting instructions on a piece of paper is not the same as providing good instructions) or the driver and softweare are badly done. Driver and software issues from the manufacturer might be the most probable explanation since the limited QuickCam Pro 9000 software and drivers have caused my video software to become unresponsive and killed my World of Warcraft. A combination of insufficient instructions and badly designed software is highly likely.
Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 April 11, 2008
Mr. G. WELSH (Liverpool UK)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have just purchased this item (9/4/08)and it works like a dream,no problems with the software or camera. It has exceeded my expectations. I thoroughly recommend it.
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