Review on High-quality Microsoft HD-3000 L2 LifeCam USB Camera (T3H-00016): Crystal Clear Video and Versatile Performance by Wiktor Wiktor ᠌

Name: High-quality Microsoft HD-3000 L2 LifeCam USB Camera (T3H-00016): Crystal Clear Video and Versatile Performance
Item: High-quality Microsoft HD-3000 L2 LifeCam USB Camera (T3H-00016): Crystal Clear Video and Versatile Performance
Rating: 4

July 04, 2023

I like everything, the quality is good, the price is acceptable.

I took the device from my hands. It cost 500, which is more than 2 times cheaper than the Creative VF0700, while the profit is more than 2 times more. Satisfied.
I've been using it for about a few months now and I'm going to continue to sit on it until the market is filled with available 60-person webcams that would be friends with the 7th.

Excluding possible problems with the software, I can recommend it to anyone who wants to have a normal and not expensive camera. For a thousand or less, generally healthy.
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Pros

I will compare with my first camera Creative VF0700 Live! Cam Chat HD. And I note that the main application is through the OBS program - The first item I will put here is the frame rate. The maximum 30 frames are declared in the characteristics, and this is very true. In any case, in the OBS settings you can set it this way. - Accordingly, here I will put the number of proposed settings in the same OBS, thanks to which you can achieve 30 frames, sacrificing illumination, which I make up for with lighting fixtures (tested with chroma key). There are others. And not that there would be a sea of them, but in the same camera from Creative everything is completely bad. - Microphone. It's more of a normal thing than anything more cool. Perhaps a little more sensitive than in Creative, but no more. - Picture. Here I mean quality and resolution. The real resolution here, of course, is not HD, but for such an amount and with such dimensions, I suppose you should not wish for more. If you do not stretch the window as wide as possible, then even good.

Cons

Now for the shortcomings. - Most likely the software comes first. A bunch of reviews say that on win 10 it's impossible to make it work or it's possible, but with incredible dances with a tambourine. I have solved this problem, because I'm sitting on 7-ke and will sit for a long time. Nevertheless, even if you don’t bother with support for Windows 10, then other jambs come out: - After installing the drivers / software, the item True Color appeared, but at the same time a couple of other items were removed in the OBS settings, while the benefits of True Color were not felt. - The automatic white balance likes to walk, which will definitely affect the color of your face (sometimes pale or red) and it’s better, of course, to turn off the whole thing and adjust it once, but. - . but the settings are not saved. Or they stopped being saved after installing the drivers / software. - More than once it happened that after connecting to a PC, OBS does not recognize the camera, but here the devil knows exactly what the problem is - the software of the computer or the camera. - The cable, for my application, is too short, and through extension cords - the PC did not see it. It seems to have been cured by installing software / drivers. At the same time, I lost just those very disappeared pairs of items in the settings. - Lack of autofocus. It would be bold, but in desires this slips at times. - Well, let's kick the design at the end. As if you can fix it with all sorts of bends, but this would not say that it is convenient. I would also like to be able to screw on a tripod. Well, as well as turn it a little more left and right, but I would also like to turn it all 90 degrees.