Logitech QuickCam Communicate Deluxe Webcam (Black) by Logitech
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Digital camera reviews of Logitech QuickCam Communicate Deluxe Webcam (Black)
Digital camera Review: Good for the price
Summary: 4 Stars
Reasonable price, avatar personalities, easy setup.I did research to use it on skypes. I would reccommend it to friend.
Digital camera Review: Good product just don't use the video effects
Summary: 2 Stars
There are two software routines related to the video effects that will render your system, even souped up ones, unusable. The problem is well documented, yet Logitech has done nothing to correct this problem. Luckily those routines are non-essential to the operation of the web cam, so you can manually disabled them in Windows Administration. Once you have done that, you will lose the video effects but the web cam will work like a champ without taking over your system.Digital camera Review: Good value for the money
Summary: 5 Stars
The Logitech QuickCam Communicate Deluxe is a good value for the money. Considering it's features and performance, I'd call it a mid-range web cam. It does a good job without costing a fortune.
The face recognition software does a pretty good job detecting the eyes-to-mouth region. It definitely doesn't have any sort of advanced visual recognition, because the software actually detects movements of the mouth, face direction, eyebrow movements, and so on. It doesn't recognize detailed mouth formations of speech sounds.
The camera has a built-in microphone, and the sound quality is quite good. It seems to filter out almost all of the normal background noises that you'd encounter in a room.
The software package contains a number of special effects capabilities, but most of them-- such as the ability to construct a personal avatar-- seem silly to me. To each his own, though...
Most importantly, the image quality is quite good. The software is good at handling low-light situations and movement.
This is most definitely not a studio-grade camera suitable for professional-quality video. But it's not priced like a high-end camera, either. It's a mid-range camera, and a good one.
I feel like I got what I paid for. I'm happy I bought it, and I'd do it again.
Digital camera Review: Great Picture But RightLight2 Has Problems
Summary: 3 Stars
I replaced an old IBM webcam with this Logitec Communicate Deluxe (Don't know if this is the exact same one because there are several with the same name).
The picture quality is excellent and I really like the wide angle view. It does fairly well in low light situations, especially when you use the RightLight automatic settings (when RightLight works).
The camera is pointed out a window into a shaded atrium. But if I set it to use RightLight to automatically adjust the picture it switches back and forth from a light image to a dark image for several minutes until it finally stabilizes. It must do this when the light outside reaches a certain level since it happens every day at the same time of day. This wreaks havoc with my motion detection software because it automatically takes a picture with each change in lighting. So I had to turn off the automatic RightLight setting to prevent it from taking a bunch of pictures when there is no real motion going on.
The other problem I have is every once in a while it prompts me to turn on the RightLight setting. Even when I tell it to never use RightLight it still occasionally prompts me to turn it on. The camera stops working when this prompt is up. This is really annoying.
If Logitec can ever get their software perfected this might be a great webcam.
UPDATE: Logitec released an update to their software which seems to have fixed the RighLight problem.
Digital camera Review: Great Product
Summary: 4 Stars
This Webcam does the job. Even a first timer can make this work. Great Product!