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| 180ş field of view, built-in mic, auto face-tracking software From TechDepot for $105.95 Logitech Quickcam Orbit WebCam ( 961310-0403 ) From Amazon (US) for A webcam that has automatic face-tracking & digital zoom technology / Mechanical Pan & Tilt / PC & Mac / USB 1.1 & 2.0 Logitech QuickCam Orbit - With the proliferation of high-speed DSL and Cable Modem Internet connections, fast Data ports like USB 2.0, and great webcams like the QuickCam Orbit - high-quality Video conferencing is now a reality! And with the Orbit, you get a webcam experience like no other! Unlike most other webcams, the Orbit has automatic face-tracking, Digital Zoom and mechanical pan & tilt! So no matter where you move your head, the camera tracks you to always keep your whole face in frame!-The ball-shaped webcam sits on a base on top of your monitor. If you have an LCD monitor, you can use the included 9" stand in between camera and base to keep it at eye level-Automatically turns left & right for almost a 180-degree horizontal view-Automatically pivots up & down for almost a 90-degree top-to-bottom view-Built-in Microphone-Record video at 640x480 with a high-quality CCD sensor-Up to 30 frames per second-Capture 1.3 Megapixel photos up to 1280x960-Send video E-mail with one click-Ability to update your website with webcam images-Works with video-enabled Yahoo! Messenger & Windows Messenger, as well as Microsoft NetMeeting-Connects to a PC or Macintosh via USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 (USB 2.0 is recommended for optimal performance)-Windows Support: Windows Me, 2000, or XP-Macintosh Support: Mac OS 10.1.5 or higher From J&R for $99.88 |
Logitech Quckcam Orbit Problem Fixed Tilt Pan (Rating: 4.00) Review : I am a seasoned pc user, I found the features to be great. The problems started as soon as I installed the camera though. First I plugged it in... Windows XP didn't find any drivers. I unplugged the camera and installed the software from Logitech (newly downloaded of course). I always chuck the original cd, newest drivers are always on line. The computer restarted and locked up (Windows XP). Turns out this camera likes a powered usb hub, I moved it to the powered hub. I restarted again and all was working... BUT Using the pan and tilt features I found the camera only moved a smidge at a time, although the demo had the thing zipping around freely. I read that the software should be reinstalled, NOT... after the uninstall process Norton 2004 password manager crashed. I reinstalled the software and had the same pan and tilt problem, but Norton was alive again. It dawned on me that the data transfer must be intensive and I switched the usb connector from the 1.1 hub to the 2.0 card (guess that's what the long cable is for, NICE, my computer is in the closet). Now it works PERFECTLY, I am IMPRESSED and I will keep it! If I could give this a zero I would. (Rating: 1.00) Review : I can't review the product itself because I could never get it to install, but I will review the installation. If your computer has a SiS or VIA Chipset I would recommend you not buy this thing. The instructions say nothing about having a problem with these chipsets and as for the instructions, they are typical instructions for products these days, none existence. The same for the live support, a real joke... Buried in Logitech's Knowledge Base I found that if you have one of these chipsets you have to reconfigure your computer to what I would equate to standing on your head and trying to drink water. If you don't know what I am talking about when I say SiS and VIA chipset, I can just tell you that these are two very common chipsets used with USB. I also tried to install this thing on three different computers and it didn't work on any of them. The first two computers had either the SiS and VIA chipset, but the third did not and it still didn't work on the third one. Five hours of wasted time later is when I decided that it wasn't worth my time to fool with this lousy installation and I returned the product. Logitech's lost not mine... the good side - is the picture quality is state of the art. that is all. after the first day - the face tracking stopped working.. and now the entire camera wont tilt upwards. for now, its sitting on books. a total waste of money. - i had the first Logitech series cam they had out.. and it worked like a champ - and still does.. however now its too obsolete to work with XP. Unfortunately, the product doesn't work well on my New Dell Windows XP machine and a few other people have reported a similar problem on XP machines. The range of the pan and tilt seems to mysteriously only be about 20 percent of full range. It looks like a softare problem. If Logitech fixes this bug, we're back to 4 star all around. To get a 5 star rating, Logitech would need to include some more useful software like motion detector software, and the ability to control your camera remotely via the web. As it is you can only control it locally at your PC. |
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