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Holey Moley, we have a winner!
Friday, October 20, 2006
Introducing the Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000. You know that feeling when you first get home after Trick-or-Treating and pour your hard earned candy out on the living room floor to assess the night's haul? A cross between shivery anticipation of the coming sugar rush and nervous dread that your healthy snack to chocolate ratio will be way, way off. That's what came over me as I stumbled across the Pro 4000. I think it's got just about everything I want and the MSRP comes in at $79.99, which is pretty reasonable, considering what you're getting.
First off, it's got CCD imaging and a 640 x 480 resolution capability, not to mention 1.3 megapixel stills. Use it to manually capture video and still photos, or enable the motion sensor Face Tracking ability--it will automatically keep you in frame and act as a motion-sensitive camera, turning on when something comes into its field of vision.
Then there's the innovative flexy foot mount contraption that sits flat on your desktop or CRT monitor, but can also be bent to hang securely from a flat screen or notebook monitor. Gotta love that. And speaking of flexibility, it's practically a candidate for Cirque du Soleil. Full 360 degree rotation, with 45 degrees of movement if you're tilting it to the ceiling and 10 degrees if you're trying to get footage of your feet.
The integrated microphone is supposed to be surprisingly impressive with echo cancellation and a superior ability to filter out everything that isn't part of the conversation. It will not, however, to the best of my knowledge, automatically screen out things like parental lectures or a thorough dressing-down by a disgruntled significant other.
Of course, there's always the chance it'll be all Raisinettes and apples when I open the package, but I'm betting on the chocolate. Voip internet phone-flavored chocolate. Now, with video over voip!
Next on my HoneyDo list: make the office camworthy.
