storgendibal's Full Review: Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX Web Cam
I've found the video and audio quality produced from this camera to be excellent. It seems a bit finicky about lighting -- that is to say it wants a lot of light to produce images that are not to dark or in shadow, but the software includes a low light boost to help overcome this.
I have used this camera over the MSN messenger video conference service with good success. The camera will not react well to quickly moving subjects. These will appear blurry and the movement will be jerky. However for recording the audio and video of a face-to-face conversation, this unit works well.
The camera comes with two mounts. One is a traditional style mount consisting of a circular base. This is intended for use when the camera sits on a table, or atop a traditional CRT monitor. I use the other mount, which is reminiscent of the letter "J". Invert the "J", mount the camera at the top of the curve (the bottom of the letter "J"), and then hang this "hook" atop your flat-screen (i.e. LCD) monitor. This works well, and using this the camera can still be adjusted in any axis (i.e. left-right, up-down, and in-between).
When I first installed this camera however, the microphone driver refused to install correctly. My Windows XP SP2 system have me the dreaded (and not terribly informative) "A problem occurred during hardware installation". I contacted customer service via e-mail and included a plethora of details about my system, the drivers I am using, the error message, hardware details, etc. One would think this would paint me as a "power user" who knows on from off. But of course the response I got (5 days later mind you!) was the typical form-letter rubbish. While very disappointing, this is also unfortunately expected from today's electronics companies, so for their poor customer service I only deduct one star
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