Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
The closest to being there. Experience the amazing clarity and detail of HD video. With brilliant colour and crystal-clear audio, this webcam with a 1080p HD widescreen sensor and high-precision optics bring your far-away friends and family closer than ever before. Optimised for Windows Live and Windows 7, the LifeCam Studio also works with Yahoo! Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger and Skype for video calls and messaging.
Product Features:
1080p HD Widescreen SensorFor superior sharpness and image quality. Captures video at up to 30 frames per second.
Advanced High-Precision OpticsWith Auto Focus and high-precision glass element lens.
Clear, High-quality VideoTrueColor Technology automatically delivers bright and colourful video, in virtually all lighting conditions. ClearFrame Technology provides smooth, detailed video.
High-Fidelity MicrophoneFor more natural, detailed audio.
Aluminum Body
HD Done Right:
An HD webcam can mean the difference between a good experience and a great one. With cinematic 16:9 widescreen 1080p video, crystal-clear images with Auto Focus, bright and colorful video with TrueColor Technolog and smooth and clear video with ClearFrame Technology, you won’t find another High Definition video experience like LifeCam Studio.
720p HD Widescreen Video
With virtually all new computer displays shipping in widescreen and social networking sites now accepting uploaded widescreen video, LifeCam Cinema offers true 720p widescreen video capture at up to 30 frames per second. Which means you’ll be able to create higher quality widescreen webcam videos without having to worry about jerky frame speeds.
Sharp Close-ups
The auto-focus feature on the LifeCam Cinema works just like the auto-focus feature on your digital camera to keep your video sharp no matter how close an object is to the LifeCam. Perfect for showing small objects—such as a ring or a business card—up close. And Auto Focus is built right into the camera, so there’s never a need to adjust the focus by hand.
Smooth Video
ClearFrame is an innovative technology that provides smooth, detailed video at any resolution— even in low-light conditions. ClearFrame improves video quality in two ways:
- ClearFrame features an image processing technology that helps to efficiently send the information from the webcam to your computer, reducing the “ghosting” effect.
- Video noise reduction software reduces image graininess—especially in low light—to keep your video sharp and clear.
Find a Webcam That's Right for You:
Webcam
LifeCam Studio
LifeCam Cinema
LifeCam HD-5000
LifeCam HD-6000
LifeCam HD-3000
High Definition Video - HD (High-Definition) is the best video resolution available, producing pictures with a higher level of detail than a standard webcam. Your video quality can be influenced by other factors that you can see in more detail below.
1080p HD
720p HD
720p HD
720p HD
720p HD
ClearFrame - ClearFrame technology automatically reduces grainy images and motion blur, capturing crisp, clean, true to life experiences which you can share with all of your friends and family, even if they can’t be there with you.
Yes
Yes
Auto Focus - Works just like the auto-focus feature on your digital camera to keep your video sharp no matter how close an object is to the LifeCam. Perfect for showing small objects such as a ring or a business card – up close.
Auto Focus
Auto Focus
Auto Focus
Auto Focus
Always Focused
Digital Zoom - Delivers realistic, up-close-and-personal video, so you can see the contours of every smile
4x
5x
5x
5x
4x
Wide-Angle Lens - The 71 degree wide angle lens ensures no one gets left out of the pictures
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Built-In Microphone - A built-in unidirectional microphone cancels out acoustic noise and echo for crystal-clear audio
High-Fidelity
Digital, Noise-Cancelling
Noise-Cancelling
Noise-Cancelling
Noise-Cancelling
Truecolour - This advanced technology automatically delivers bright, colourful video under virtually all lighting conditions. It uses the power of the PC to intelligently analyse the scene and determine the optima; video settings even in low lighting.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Fits Laptops or PCs - The Laptop Grip is a compact design that can rotate 180 degrees in both directions for an all-around view, making it perfect for being on the go. The Universal Grip will bend and fix onto your laptop, desktop and notebook, and can even stand by itself.
Fits All
Fits All
Fits All
Laptops only
Fits All
LifeCam Cinema System Requirements:
- Windows® 7/Windows Vista®/Windows XP (with Service Pack 2 or higher)
- Intel Dual-Core 1.6 GHz or higher and 1 GB of RAM; 720p HD recording: Intel Dual-Core 3.0 GHz or higher, 2GB of RAM
- 1.5 GB free space
- CD-ROM
- USB 2.0
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By : MicrosoftList Price :
Price : £49.99
You Save : £50.00 (50%)
Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 19.9 x 7.5 cm ; 104 g
- Boxed-product Weight: 408 g
- Item model number: Q2F-00003
- ASIN: B004BPD73M
- Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 17 Nov 2010
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Technical Details
- Digital video capture speed: 30 fps
- Maximum resolution: 1920 x 1080 pixels
- Maximum resolution (still pictures): 2560 x 2048
- Face tracking: Y
- Digital zoom: 3 x
Costumer Critiques
This webcam is pretty awesome. Once you manage to prise it out of Microsoft's iron-clad bomb-proof armored packaging (seriously, it took about seven minutes and a pair of scissors to function it out! Oh, and you could possibly take a while to find the tiny black rubber lens cap, which is inside the white paper drivers-'n'-documents box), it actually appears surprisingly smaller and light. Getting it to work also demands Microsoft's annoying proprietary drivers and an world-wide-web connection, which I assume is considering that the ones on the disk are out of date and so I was treated to an agonizing 80MB download. However, once it is up and operating it is uncomplicated to see why it commands the price it does and why you'll understand to put up with all the slightly annoying drivers and the impossible package.
Also of note is that new firmware is on the market for the camera, which is meant to make it improved, quicker, shinier and commonly some thing you should certainly do I cannot comment on if this is correct, because I installed it ahead of I applied it. If the result of the update or not, the camera appears to function quite well. The drivers too aren't too bad to use if you can bear the download time as nicely as letting you zoom the image (fairly cool, and does not seem to affect superior either), there is a few effects you can apply to the video output even for the duration of a video call. Some of them, such as the hats, face distortions, and really pretty cool background blurring rely on face detection (which is surprisingly reliable), when others overlay filters - black white, sepia, posterise and so on. The driver interface is not bad either, with a tiny icon in the task bar permitting you to transform zoom, effects and settings pretty effortlessly.
The quality of the camera is outstanding even at the low resolutions imposed by Skype, the video is bright, clear and devoid of graininess. This is pretty great going, given that my desk isn't exactly photo-lit! Along with the autofocus (which, while it doesn't seem like too substantially of a huge factor at initially, has convinced me by no means to go back to manual), the camera also automatically adjusts the brightness and colour of the picture. I've observed that sitting in front of my personal computer at 9pm illuminated only by my screen (lightbulbs tend to fail more sometimes then monitors, it seems) does not look too far detached from a sun-lit seat on a good day.
I suppose that I should not let this get too sugar-coated even though, so I have to say that the Lifecam Studio is not with out flaws.
Firstly, the autofocus occasionally goes a little out of whack, and either picks up the background or some invisible topic a few inches from the camera. This isn't too negative although, because it can normally be solved by holding a hand close to the lens for a couple of seconds to initiate a re-focusing, then move it away so it picks you up once again.
Secondly, the camera's colour-adjusting magic oftentimes goes a small crazy and whites you out or blacks anything out, but it really is consistently temporary (it'll go back to regular in about a second) and typically occurs if you do something like giving picking up a sheet of paper or move a dark object close to the camera.
Thirdly, this camera gets hot. In the item video on amazon.com for this, a couple of Microsoft hardware engineers talk about the style of the Studio, and reveal that they're pretty chuffed with the tidiness of the overall design and how nicely it all fits together they give an example of the aluminium body not only looking powerful and shiny and becoming fairly overall, but also doubling as a handy passive heatsink. It shows (Nicely, naturally not literally - I believe it'd almost certainly be hard to heat the entire factor to incandescent temperatures from the two.5w of electrical power you can pull from a USB socket), but immediately after employing it for a although it immediately becomes really warm to the touch, and reaches possibly 40-45C through extended use. This is in all probability fine for the camera and I'm certain that it does not thoughts too considerably (Microsoft peripherals perhaps don't boast the 4000K survivability of technologies from vendors like Aperture Science, I've not observed quite a few electronics datasheets that complain too about temperately beneath about 80C), but it is one thing that you really should maybe be aware of it is most likely not broken, just meant to be like that.
Overall, it's a quite terrific camera and I'm glad that I bought it the value could be a tiny high if you happen to be only an occasional user, but if you're ready to spend the value then you happen to be rewarded with a superior, high-quality piece of kit. It does have its flaws, but then I'm particular that there is no webcam devoid of them and in the scheme of items they're pretty minor. I would absolutely recommend giving it a try.
I was extremely impressed with the Microsoft LifeCam studio which has now replaced my Microsoft Lifecam cinema HD. Compared to the Cinema the lower resolution appear clearer and brighter. At 720p the picture is considerably brighter than the Cinema and the fact that it DOES stream utilizing Nefsis at 1080p is astounding. Be warned on the other hand you do want a really excellent laptop and at least two.5meg up and 2.5meg down to stream 1080p at 30fps
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