Webcam Recommendations

[Stephen]

More fancy versions use the same software to actually move the
camera... in a little ball as well.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Gerold Knapp<catbertek at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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