Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF

User Reviews about QuickCam Orbit AF

I researched several of these before making a purchase and deliberately choose one in about this middle of the road price range.

I am mostly pleased. It's not great at face tracking but unless I move around a lot -- it does pretty well. The focus for image clarity has been consistently good, even on autofocus, for the majority of my uses over a range of zoom settings.

It was very easily assembled and installed. Basically installation went without a hitch on both my Windows XP desktop and laptop computer. I liked it well enough to purchase a second one and and am contemplating gifting friends with this model.

My only disappointment, which I notice has been true of several webcam's (unless they are at the high end of the price range) -- has to do with accuracy of image color. Most of my use has been in an office with white walls and flourescent lighting. This setting makes skin tones profoundly red compared to what a normal camera with optical lens would produce. I have tried daylight photos at home -- still kinda funky coloring.

Thus, when I really want to save an image beyond just video calling, I end up needing to export it to a photo processing software package and do a few minutes of editing. This normally results in a reasonably decent picture. Obviously do-able, but I might rather spend my time elsewhere.

-- Good for internet videocalling -- bit disappointed in image color quality.