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Review on Upgrade Your Business Communications with 🎥 Microsoft LifeCam Cinema 720p HD Webcam in Black by Mateusz Sztrekier ᠌

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Only disadvantages and no pluses, do not buy.

In order: Disgusting autofocus (which becomes a little more disgusting with each software and firmware ate, which, nevertheless, does not make this function at least somehow acceptable for use): the main task of autofocus - according to Microsoft's vision - to declare its presence, every minute and a half knocking down and re-adjusting the focus; Creepiest software: I've never had warm feelings for microsoft, but here they probably outdid themselves: standard software offers the ability to record video with sound or just sound, there are also some “funny effects” like wigs or distortion and -la room of laughter. But, unfortunately, this software, when recording video, always saves it with a terrible loss of quality in the [naturally] “. WMV” format. In this case, in three cases out of five, during the recording, the sound will be interrupted or completely lost; In early advertisements for this camera, it was announced that it would support shooting “720p at 30fps” (by the way, this is written, among other parameters, on top, on a silver ring), and so, I was able to achieve thirty frames per second only by recording from under sixty a four-bit program bypassing the original driver (the driver does not work with x64 programs), recording from the standard program under no circumstances gave more than fifteen frames at 720p, thirty frames could only be obtained at 480p. In general, there is still a lot of bad things, for example, the driver does not remember the camera settings at all (except for one checkmark that disables soft effects), or Microsoft support, which always answers something like “have you tried turning it off and on again”, even when you talk about all the nuances and that the hardware itself is capable of normal operation, but the driver and software are not given to it. Let me explain: If you just need a camera for Skype and you are ready to put up with constant jerking of the focus, then this camera is quite suitable for you, but I would advise you to take the Logitech HD Webcam C310 - almost twice as cheap, there is no autofocus, and it will also shoot perfectly in HD .

Pros
  • Appearance.
Cons
  • Aftofocus, price, software, user support.