Creative Live! Cam Notebook

Creative's Live! Cam Notebook helps you enjoy fuss-free instant messaging and internet phone calls. If you like to 'plug in and chat' with your notebook PC, this tiny, versatile webcam will help you do it - and it's compatible with Skype and Windows Live Messenger too! Hardly larger than an AA battery, the Live! Cam Notebook has a clever base that will clip to just about any notebook display, and it connects via USB. It has a built-in microphone and True VGA sensor, so your friends, family or business colleagues will get great-looking images plus sound - no need to carry a separate microphone.

Tiny, pocket-sized format, barely larger than an AA battery. Versatile clip will attach to just about any notebook display.
Sleek design complements any notebook.
Simple plug-in connection via USB.
True VGA sensor for imaging and video recording.
Built-in microphone for `all in one' instant messaging and internet phone calls.
Compatible with Skype and Windows Live Messenger.

The camera can't handle high light (like outdoors or bright indoor light) and it can't handle low light (like just light from the screen). It also has far too little dynamic range, so either the image has to be too dark or the bright parts have to wash out. The automatic exposure and white balance ends up with wildly different and ridiculous settings on different occasions for no apparent reason whatsoever. The video displays a lot of blocky artifacts, as if it's highly compressed, probably because despite mentioning USB 2 it is not a high speed device. It was able to get a good image sometimes, like when there's a stationary scene with uniform subdued lighting, but performance is generally unacceptable.

My favourite thing about the cam was its impressively small size. I also liked VideoFX although it had incompatibility issues and the effects where I'm supposed to appear in front of a different background didn't work.

Overall, this webcam is so horrible that it's not even worth it when steeply discounted, and it seriously hurts my perception of the Creative Labs brand.

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Creative Live! Cam Notebook

Creative VF0470 driver download

Creative Live! Cam Notebook

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Creative Live! Cam Notebook