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Be there for the moments that matter in true-to-life video calling clarity.
Your life is crazy busy. You'd love to see far-flung family and friends more often. Yet, there's never enough vacation time or money to go around. Problem solved. With QuickCam Communicate MP and free Logitech Vid video-calling software, it's fast, free and easy to "be there" in person. The video and sound experience is so true-to-life, it's like being in the same room with the people you care about most. In just one click, you can be there for your grandchild's birthday, the graduate's big day or to open holiday presents together, from across the country or the world. Thanks to Logitech, high quality video calling is dramatically simplified. So now, there's nothing to keep you from sharing the moments that matter.

While Creative's Live Cam software has more features, unless motion capture surveillance or time-lapse Webcam photography interest you, you are better off with the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000. You can adjust sliders for lightness, contrast, color power, and white balance, but I found the most inspiring results by enabling RightLight and leaving it at that. I found many complains online about installation hiccups, particularly with Window XP machines, but I experienced no difficulty installing the QuickCam software and drivers on either Vista or XP.

I had difficulty when I installed the beta 11.5 drivers in a scheme to try the top of the range Video statement that Logitech and Skype expounded last week ( more on that later ), but the QuickCam 11.0 software that came on the bundled CD presented no such issues. Also, be sure to close out of the QuickCam software when using the Webcam to record meeting with a program like Skype. I had a talk often come to a sudden end till I spotted the tiny QuickCam icon having a look at me from my PC's system tray and closed it. The two-hinged stand can be maneuvered to stand up on top of a desk or so that the camera sits on top of a narrow LCD. A rubber mat covers each potential contact point, recommending the Webcam will rest decisively in place in a variety of positions. Particularly in a dimly lit room with a dark desktop background, the QuickCam Pro 9000 was in a position to lighten the image to that shadows were removed from your face but not to the point of overexposing the image. As well as employing a Carl Zeiss lens, the QuickCam Pro 9000 features Logitech's RightLight 2 technology, which I announced to be way better at mechanically changing the image than anything you get from Creative or Microsoft. It can record video up to a resolution of 1,600x1,200 and can snap still pictures up to 8-megapixels ( remember, anything above 2-megapixels comes by way of software interpolation, which degrades quality ). Logitech's face-tracking features mean you get a spread of 3D avatars and other video effects, which are fun if you would like to shock your mates with a video call from a shark or a reptile or a wild-and-crazy guy with an arrow thru his head.

While Macs will recognize this plug-and-play USB device ( not tested ), you'll be left without the services of the video ( RightLight 2 ) and audio ( RightSound ) optimization apps as well as the video effects and filters.

Logitech doesn't bundle a video-messaging app, but it works alongside all the favored IM clients, including those from AOL, Windows, and Yahoo, and Skype, which I used for testing. Three QuickCams were debated in the release, including the Pro 9000.

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