Webcam Recommendations

[Gerold Knapp]

The intelligent face tracking does not physically move the camera.  The
camera instead does a bit of digital zoom and then watches the stream and
shifts the center of the digital zoom to follow the user's face.

I have not played with this cam in linux, though, so I don't know if any of
that works or not.  I am sure someone on the list could answer that.  We do
have a pretty darned good list here.

Ed


On 8/13/09 1:39 PM, "Matt Graham" <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:

> From: Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
>>> FWIW, the the Logitech webcam I bought from Fried Hardware for $50
>>> works perfectly with Skype with any kernel recent enough to have the
>>> uvcvideo module.  Teh Almighty Google says it was a QuickCam
>>> Communicate MP.
>> I was looking at the Logitech QuickCam Pro (c905) for notebooks,
>> comes with a case and desktop stand for a few bucks more. It has
>> all sorts of nifty gadgets, like low light image improvement, wide
>> angle shots, 2M pixels, intelligent face tracking, video effects,
>> etc. Am I correct in assuming all those nifty features will only
>> work on Windows since I assume they require the Logitech software
>> to function properly?
> 
> Lighting adjustment is done in the camera AFAICT and requires no
> support beyond basic uvcvideo.  I don't know about wide-angle since
> mine doesn't do that.  What is "intelligent face tracking"?  Does it
> have a motor so the camera can move?  Video effects are done post-
> video feed and depend on the Logitech junk, but these are useless.