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Very good video quality and seems to have good mic pickup. Very compact for travel - comes with pouch. Bought camera in order to visit family on Skype and for business web conferences. Very easy to set up.
next use is for skype. i just received it, plugged it in, and used it with photobooth immediately. after my built-in isight camera malfunctioned, and not wanted to spend a fortune trying to figure out if i could get it to work or not, i purchased a microsoft vx5000 for my husband's pc which caused all sorts of problems that i won't go into here. frustrated, i searched for a less expensive alternative for my mac, and figured for 25 bucks i'd try this xbox camera. thanks to another reviewer, i was able to make the picture a little crisper by using the focus ring, and we're good to go.
It is a nice little camera, but there really isn't much of a reason for this on Xbox, there are a few games that support the camera, but to be honest don't get it unless you have other friends that have it because the few games that do use it only use it to put your face in the game or video feed which gets old quick, but if your friends have one then you can video chat with them which can be fun depending on who your chatting with. The camera can also be used on your computer, but just remember the camera has no flash, auto zoom or focus and picture quality is okay at best, but for that price what do you expect.
I even think the quailty surpasses the isight built into the iMac I upgraded to a Mac Mini after I sold my 2007 iMac to my parents and i was in need of a cam so i looked around and read that this was compatible with any mac with 10.4 or higher, and since the camera has been out for a while you can get this for dirt cheap used I wound up paying 8 bucks for it after i had some left over trade in credit at gamestop. If you have a mac mini or a Mac pro this is a great buy. Its compatible with iChat Skype Photobooth and a majorty of Mac progoams even works under Windows and window 7 to.
I bought this to use with my Mac, and was shocked by the native support and amazing performance, even in low lighting. I've used it with iChat and Gmail.
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