This is a great little USB web cam for very little money. When testing a dozen or so different web cams, I found this the easiest to use and the least expensive.
This cam does not come with software, and does not have fancy features like zoom, autofocus, and subject tracking. It is fixed focal length and focus, like a cheap still camera.
I found the lack of software to be a plus, as most all webcam software borders on being malware with its invasive and obnoxious effects on Windows. I have not tried it with Linux yet, but will update this review when I do.
This camera worked out of the box on standard Windows camera drivers, and for simple web conferencing, it is great. I have used it with the Elluminate service, and it functions quite adequately.
If you need a basic, generic, USB webcam and don't want to shell out nearly $100 for a good one, give this beastie a try. It isn't fancy, but it works.
UPDATE FEB. 2009
I have also now tried this camera on the MSI Wind Barebone computer running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. It works well with Linux, too.
UPDATE July 2009
I recently got my 5th one of these cameras, and it arrived damaged (poor packaging). I emailed HDE through Amazon and immediately got a response and they sent a new camera. Customer service like that is just darned hard to find. Good job! 5.0 Megapixel USB PC Webcam Camera for PC Laptop Noteboo
well, for people who still didnt buy it, DONT !
it's a piece of junk, its name is : "5.0 Megapixel USB PC Webcam Camera for PC Laptop Notebook" sounds like we will have a picture quality of 5.0 Megapixel for a cool price. But the think is (after few reserch) i found that "5.0 Megapixel USB PC Webcam" is the name of the brand !!! and not reference of the quality !! wich it means you'll buy something like : "xxx Camera for PC Laptop Notebook" and there's nothing to say about the quality or anything else.
and for real this camera quality is 0.7 Megapixel wich is the lowest quality you can find for webcams
Fast delivery. Webcam installed ok on XP. Terrible image quality as the webcam can not adjust well for lighting, and has poor resolution. It's not 5.0 megapixel, I think that's just part of the name. Manual focus broke first time I tried to adjust it. The price is low for a reason.
The product description claims "4 LED lights for night vision viewing".
They're for blinding the person using the camera. They're extra bright white LEDs, not infra-red, as "night vision" describes.
I unplugged it after a minute, most of which was spent picking up my jaw at the audacity of the seller using a lie to describe this product.
Yes, strictly speaking the words "night" and "vision" can be used to describe something that floods an area with bright light so as to make it possible to have "vision" at "night", but this is NOT what "night vision" means.
It's bulky compared to other webcams, it has that flimsy shiny tacky feeling. I'm dropping it in a donation box somewhere so that some charity can benefit. It would probably cost me more than this thing cost me to return it and cross my fingers for a refund of any kind.
Yes, I know. For $7 what did I expect? I expected the description not to outright lie.
This is a very low resolution webcam. If it were represented as such I would have no problems with it (of course I wouldn't have bought it either). Basically, I wasted $10 buying it and an hour finding out that you can't get even a half megapixel out of it. It's useless to me, but not worth the postage and bother to return it. So the webcam goes in a junk box, the seller keeps my money, Amazon gets a bit tarnished for allowing the misrepresentation, and I learn a lesson. - Quality - Cheap - Cheap Webcam - Skype'
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