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March 19, 2010
Microsoft LifeCam Cinema
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Brand: Microsoft Model : H5D-00001 Customer Rating : List Price : $79.95
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Microsoft LifeCam Cinema Feature
- 720p HD Widescreen Video
- Auto Focus
- High-precision glass element lens
- ClearFrame Technology for smooth, detailed video
- Digital, noise-canceling microphone o
Microsoft LifeCam Cinema Overviews
This full-featured webcam, with ClearFrame image-processing technology, delivers smooth, detailed video and crystal-clear audio.
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Microsoft LifeCam Cinema CustomerReview
If you’ve used a webcam in the last 5-10 years you basically know the drill. You plug in the camera and you see a junky image show up in the screen that’s slightly blurry and when you move creates some nasty blur.
Well you can forget most of that with this camera. It’s 720p, which means the resolution is 1280×720, nothing staggering, but a lot crisper than the standard 320×240 or 640×480 cameras (it actually has about 4x the pixel count as a normal webcam). While it is truly 720p hd in resolution, don’t expect something like you’d see on your 720p television. Because the camera has glass optics and a good camera, it resolves most of the other issues with webcams. Low light can still be somewhat of an issue.
As far as aesthetics, it looks quite good, although included webcams in cameras sit flush and probably look better, if you don’t have one built in you really don’t have a choice. There is a blue light that will turn on when the camera is on, which is handy for people who get freaked out having a camera always pointed at them. It has a rubber mount, which worked on the lcd I tried it on, and looks like it would work on almost any of them.
The software was easy to install, took longer than I thought (maybe 10 minutes), and after that it updated itself (firmware) and was ready to use with anything that could use a camera. Some will enjoy the ‘add-ons’ that you can put on the screen. You can do all kinds of fun house mirror style effects on the software (and the image that’s transmitted on skype), and add objects like hats/mustaches/etc that automatically sit on your head and track with it, pretty amazing. I’ve seen older versions of this from microsoft that weren’t as good, but let you download additional hats/glasses/etc, so maybe that’ll come. I do wish it had mac support, but it’s clearly stated it doesn’t, so it’s not a ding against it per se, just would have been nice.
Overall it’s probably not worth replacing your built in camera if you have one for this, but if you don’t have one already, this is a good one to get.
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