Creative web cameras. Webcams Creative Live! Cam inPerson HD VF0720 and Creative Live! Cam Connect HD VF0750
WEB-camera Creative Live! Cam Chat IM (VF0530) (USB 1.1/2.0, photo and video 1.3 MP, 5 MP (with interpolation) sensor 1.3 MP) The "Plug & Chat" principle allows you to use the camera for video communication with other popular messaging programs immediately after purchase. Use a microphone for recording via the Internet. High-quality VGA matrix for capturing clear, clear images. Hi-Speed USB connection for smooth video recording and transfer. Bezkoshtovne security software Live! Central Lite adds a host of essential functions, including video control and video adjustment. Thanks to the universal mounting bracket, the camera can be placed on any flat surface or monitor.
Vendor code: #0710047
WEB-camera Creative Live! Cam Notebook
WEB-camera Creative Live! Cam Notebook (USB 1.1/2.0, photo 1.3 with interpolation, video 800x600, VGA CMOS sensor) Miniature camera the size of an AA battery can easily fit a camera. A universal spring clip for attaching the camera to any laptop screen. An attractive camera design to brighten up any laptop. Easy connection via USB port.
Use a microphone for meeting video and telephone conversations on the Internet. Madness with Skype programs that Windows Live Messenger.
Vendor code: #0710046
WEB-camera Creative Live! Cam Notebook Pro (VF0400)
WEB-camera Creative Live! Cam Notebook Pro (USB 1.1/2.0, photo 1.3 and video 800x600MP VGA CMOS sensor) Thanks to the modern design and high-quality coverage of the Live webcam! Cam Notebook Pro is welcome to mothers and welcomes vikors. Even light and miniature. The kit includes a bag for carrying and a loop for the dart. Unique spring-loaded compression of the camera to the laptop display. The lens that wraps stores the images behind the PC, and a special software program puts the images in the correct position. Also encourages streaming video at 30 frames per second. Use the microphone. The set includes headphones for special listening.
The kit includes a new set of software for image processing, home security, video storage, image archiving and their transmission.
Vendor code: #0710009
WEB-camera Creative Live! Cam Notebook Ultra
WEB-camera Creative Live! Cam Notebook Ultra (USB 1.1/2.0, photo 1.3 and video 800x600, 1.3 MP sensor, headset) Adaptive Array ensures clearer voice transmission. Sensor by high permission It will store intact images from separate sections up to 5 megapixels* and videos from separate sections up to 1.3 megapixels. A high-precision lens with an ultra-wide (80 degrees) view allows you to capture panoramic, detailed images. Advanced Video FX adds special effects to online chats, and Smart Face Tracking will no longer allow anyone to speak in the center of the frame. A special PowerGrip clamp allows you to fix the camera on the laptop screen with a slight rotation of 240 degrees. The delivery set includes a hands-free headset for private conversations. The camera works great with Skype™, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger. Ideal solution for video blogs!
Vendor code: #0710018
WEB-camera Creative Live! Cam Optia
WEB-camera Creative Live! Cam Optia (USB 1.1/2.0, photo 1.3 and video 800x600, VGA CMOS sensor 640x480) Unique design, user-friendly. Webcam mode: up to 30 fps. Dodatkovo: manual focusing, wrapping 270 degrees, intelligent guidance Smart face tracking, headphones with microphone.
Vendor code: #0710019
It seems like the most common gadget is a webcam. Why is it so needed today, in the closed independent Vikonanny? Even a laptop, tablet or phone has a camera and the necessary resources that allow you to compress video with hardware. On account of web cameras, which are still only capable of transmitting video. How can a webcam begin to process video in hardware in the same way as other video cameras? Why show up at the webcam at this time?
To inform you about the price, we know from two representatives of current webcams. How many gadgets have come into their own, so what will be the next step?
Design, technical characteristics
Live! Cam inPerson HD VF0720
The kit, I will attach it, is included short instructions, leaflets and CD with software. The camera's USB cable is about 1.8 meters long: to be honest, I wish it was longer.
This camera looks amazing. The reason for such dimensions is that the microphones are located throughout the front side: two in the central part and two more closer to the edges of the body.
There are no ventilation openings at the gate, which are necessary for cooling the electronic filling. There is also a processor in the middle that can compress the video stream in hardware. The upper part of the body is equipped with a button that can be pressed to take a photo or start/start video recording (it is important to adjust the settings in one of the programs that are available).
The fastening system is carefully thought out, consisting of three joints, so that one after another bends easily under angles of up to 300 °. This allows you to place the camera on any surface or under any surface. It is noticeable that all the joints are covered with gum inserts, which increases friction with the supporting surface. Such humic inserts are on the lower surface of the body, as well as on the inner side of the tongue-intermediate, which protrudes down from the front side of the chamber.
Thanks to its clever design and rubber inserts, the camera fits perfectly on the top edge of the monitor or fits over an even thin laptop screen.
Live! Cam Connect HD VF0750
The other camera is simpler and cheaper, as can be seen from the packaging, which is equipped with a hook for hanging on store displays.
The equipment is exactly the same as in the older model, except for a CD. It’s true, it’s not much at all. Dovzhina USB cable for this camera becomes 1.5 m - the same, know, omal, even offensive cameras are clearly intended for use with stationary PCs, and they happen to stand here on the side or on the underside, far from the monitor, in any case but pile up camera.
Here the design is not so complicated: there are only two columns, connected not by a tight bend.
This camera does not have ventilation openings, just like the hardware encoder does not. There is a similar button for the release button here - it is also located on the upper part of the device’s body.
There are two gum inserts on the joints of the fastening system: on the inner side of the tongue, which plays the role of a boundary, and on the inner side of the stand. No matter what, it is also intended to increase friction when attached to the upper edge of the monitor.
The main technical characteristics of web cameras are shown in the table:
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Microphone(s) |
Quadrophonic, focusing and noise canceling | Mono, with noise reduction function |
Madness from the OS |
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Separate video content |
1920×1080 | 1600×1200 |
Separate building photo |
12 MP with software processing | 10 MP with software processing |
Security software (only for Windows OS) |
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Operation
The fragments are not optical zoom But, obviously, there is no stabilizer in such chambers and it is impossible, but the food is automatically removed in the course of the day. The fatigue stems from another vital aspect: the pitfalls of insufficient lightness in the mind. I, close up, warm up under the washbasin to change.
Here it is necessary to pay close attention to both devices that are being looked at - the adjustment will be quite high, and the sensitivity of the devices should be at least praised. Let's take a look at what it's like with a viconn. Live webcams! Cam inPerson HD VF0720:
However, the result of this adjustment, as well as the level of sensitivity, is still different among the cameras. Below are equal still frames from video captured by cameras in the same light levels - in the same light, equivalent to the light level of the current monitor.
Do you need any comments here? Let’s try to understand this difference, or rather, give two versions that came to mind: either the sensitivity of the sensor, which is found in the older model, is amazing, or the noise reduction program is miraculously implemented. Ale, shvidshe for everything, here we will work hard at the factories overnight.
During testing, an unacceptable feature of the older camera, the Person HD VF0720, was noted. Why does the image gradually squash, shave back and forth?
These settings are activated both during video recording and during normal (background) operation. As with good illumination, so with insufficient illumination. Due to the presence of intense disturbances in the frame, there is no shortage of activity. In simpler terms, it seems like it’s all over again. For all that, I think there is a problem with autofocus, and the test copy of the camera has such a software defect (or overproduction).
The next important factor is the construction that prevails. This is a painful topic. The ills for the workers, as they naively admit, that the separation of buildings has allowed, are the same. On the right, the numbers 1920×1080 indicated on the packaging or in the specifications do not necessarily relate to the separate size of the camera; they simply indicate the size of the frame in pixels. Video cameras with such separate functions are not yet available either in the amateur or in the professional segment (as we should not take the highly specialized complexes into account). And since the size of the frame is not subject to doubt and is easily verified, then with a separate section on the right it will be different. You don’t see it except for the additional help of full-scale studies of special test tables. What did we earn:
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Of course, there is no smell of 1920×1080 here, but it is absolutely not surprising to know about the optics that are used in cameras and, moreover, about the size of the image sensors. But still, 700 and 500 horizontal lines that came out are an outstanding result for such little ones! Surprisingly, I’m going to give a lot of amateur (and not just) HD video cameras to separate buildings. For the sake of comparison, let’s say that today’s top-class Panasonic amateur camcorders offer the maximum separation, they provide approximately 1100 horizontal lines (div.).
In connection with this, melodiously, it seems that the time has come: let’s take one of the simplest, inexpensive webcams released in the past. For example, this: Microsoft LifeCam VX-800. Nothing noticeable, a standard camera for spiritual affairs Skype. Now let's take a look at the table we know with this camera.
| Live! Cam inPerson HD VF0720 | Live! Cam Connect HD VF0750 | Microsoft VX-800 |
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Aje is progress, it’s hard to feel it! And the progress is serious, which threatens to be overtaken. The main concern for web camera developers is not to skimp, use faster sensors, larger ones, and preferably with reverse illumination technology (the so-called Back Side Illumination MOS, report). In fact, it seems that one of these sensors is located in the upper chamber, which can be judged by the actual presence of color noise in the home due to the insufficient level of brightness.
The reader is sleeping: what do we all need here? Even if it’s a webcam, it doesn’t require any clarity or purity of the picture. Apparently the power supply: and now the webcam generator can enhance detail and thus help improve light sensitivity?
Of greatest interest is the program Live! Central 3. This is a multi-armed combine that allows you to record video, take photos, “embellish” images that are conveyed with various effects, etc.
Adjustment of separate sections of the skin chamber may vary:
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Changing permissions, as we change little things over the year, can be achieved by simply cropping the image. Let's go out and see different skin conditions.
It’s a pity that the cameraman doesn’t show maximum scrutiny of the lenses. Come and become wiser yourself, in a barefoot way, and signify this kut. We will not vouch for absolute accuracy, otherwise we will be able to reject the hidden hostility without question. Now, having taken what is sometimes mildly called the view from the window, and having taken a satellite photograph of the location of the shooting, we removed the foot cuticles for the skin from the web cameras, which can be seen:
Let's go back to the software security and see what we can get. Live! Central unfavorably separates the accusations from TV shows:
Such a signal change is also visible in the Live! Central, hello to everyone third party add-ons How to broadcast video from a webcam connected to a PC using an additional WDM driver, including, especially, Skype. It's true, though Live! Central is guilty of neglecting and executing background mode(At the burnt window). І one more limitation: when working with third party programs Live! Cam inPerson HD VF0720 operates only in program mode, without hardware compression - setting up the camera to change the separate output of the signal, only available in Live! Central. All other programs have daily adjustments. However, this is an absolutely basic reality, and most of the video storage devices that run the hardware code work in this way are important - through drivers, which are called "minds" only the security software that is available.
On the little one you can see a program-equipped image of a head with a straw droplet stuck to it, with which the video is displayed in the window of the simplest storage program, AMCAP.
Before speaking, similar problems with the appearance that were put into the frame are not limited by the templates of hats, eyepieces, glasses, etc. that are evident in the program. You can find additional templates on the retailer side of the page.
Here you go, another painful meal: what do we have with the separate video that is transmitted on Skype? Verdict: nothing! Regardless of the uniqueness of our technology, we recommend that it is possible to achieve HD signal transmission. True, even with a clear SD signal, the picture looks simply miraculous: it shows signs of the high sensitivity of the cameras.
And yet, there are still ways to communicate with the Internet to an HD signal. However, these stinks, as a rule, are not without catastrophes. For this purpose, you can find dozens of resources that can provide similar services.
Perhaps, it’s a shame that we’ve lost our knowledge of these cameras: it’s good to be careful about such a high level of separation in cameras that can accommodate such miniature optics and matrix. Hardware compression of the video signal is still a bad idea, but its implementation would require a lot of work. Ok, increase the video bitrate from as little as three megabits per second to at least ten megabits, and immediately change the encoding profile from Baseline to something better, don’t forget to tell Main.
Enter
Personal computers have long been transformed from local, isolated devices to richly functional communication devices, replacing us with not only regular paper mail, but also phone, and sometimes text alive spilkuvannya. These are the demands of the Internet, a turbulent development of which reveals the possibility of high-speed transmission of large streams of audiovisual information on any platform. І if there is a need for a meeting exchange program text messages becomes insufficient, modern technologies Allow the ability to supplement them with voice transmission and send video, and in real time. The initial costs are minimal: add a webcam, of which there are only a few available on the computer market. Today I propose to look at six similar devices h model range Creative company.
Technical characteristics
First of all, go to a detailed look at the models, based on the table of technical characteristics of web cameras presented in the review:
Having looked at the table, you can come to a conclusion that they often vary greatly from model to model, while even pennies of effort seem to add up to worth. Let's be clear about what this is all about.
First of all, what would you like to increase your respect for, the importance of the sensors, which you should be victorious about. In addition to different operating resolutions (and of the six tested cameras, only one has a separate hardware unit that exceeds 640x480), they can be divided into the type itself: CCD or CMOS. As a rule, cameras with a CCD sensor are more expensive due to the cost of the sensor itself; However, the advantages are not obvious - although it is traditionally important that CCD sensors provide best brightness image (improved color reproduction, less noise), it is necessary to respect that CMOS sensors have long ago reached such a level of development that in the field of photographic technology they have almost completely replaced CCDs. As we already say about webcams, their image quality is significantly lower than that of cameras.
If we are talking about permission, then it is necessary to remember that in most cases the transmitter indicates numbers based on the hardware resolution of the sensor - it must be done programmatically, by interpolation. So, let's say, Live! The Cam Vista IM sensor has a separate size of 640×480, and the video card driver can programmatically resize the image to 800×600.
The next step, and perhaps the most important thing, is the viscosity of the optical system. Most of the cheapest models of webcams cannot boast even the slightest decent optics, which is due to the geometric nature and spread of the image at the edges of them, which is even more noticeable.
To transfer audiovisual information to a computer, a webcam requires a USB interface. Most older or cheaper cameras do not support USB 1.1 ("Full speed"), which limits the maximum speed of data transfer between them - with a separate 640x480 frame, you will not be able to capture more than 15 frames with such a camera. sec, and in this case, recorded on the camera, the rocs can there is no need to look smooth. New cameras work with USB 2.0 (“High speed”), as a result of which the speed of updating images can reach 30 frames/sec.
The complete set of the virobus also plays a part in the end. As a result, additional security software, Skype certificates, various telephone headsets with microphones, carrying cases, etc. may be included. To find out everything in detail, let’s take a closer look at the models tested in our test laboratory.
Creative Live! Cam Vista IM
Creative Live! Cam Vista IM in packaging for separate sale
This webcam is the largest budget camera in the entire Creative Live family! Cam, I couldn’t help but mention the delivery package. Here, instead of a hands-free headset, the potential buyer will find a microphone, the design of which is similar to the fastening on the collar of the jacket. Otherwise, it seems likely that the potential buyer will have headphones (either an acoustic system - or better yet, headphones, since the stench will eliminate problems with the acoustic with the call of the bell, which appears in the form of a characteristic booming whistle) to create sound.
Creative Live! Cam Vista IM
The mounting of the camera allows it to be installed on the edge of the PK monitor, or on a flat surface of the table. However, the camera is still easy to carry, and when placed on a table, it tends to fall over through the elasticity of the USB cord. The Cam Vista IM stand is mounted behind an additional hinge, which provides two degrees of freedom: the lens can be rotated 360 degrees along the horizontal axis, and 60 degrees along the vertical axis.
Cam Vista IM is equipped with a VGA CMOS sensor with a separate part of 640x480 pixels (without interpolation) and a refresh rate of 15 frames/sec. A simple camera lens with a ring for manual focusing. Often, due to its simplicity, the image that appears appears muddy, with a great loss of sharpness at the edges of the frame. Take a look at the camera photo of the test table, designed specifically for checking clarity:
Creative Live! Cam Vista IM: ISO Resolution Chart
And as long as the reliability of the color of serious claims was not blamed. The camera pleasantly displays both warm and cold tones:
Kozhen Myslyvets Bazhai Znaty…
The main advantage of Creative Live! Cam Vista IM – the price is approximately 30 dollars. For these reasons, the camera is ideal for completing elementary classes, as well as a “cob” camera for learning about the capabilities of audiovisual Internet streaming. Let's see what advantages it is to pay a 50-hundred-hundred-hundred-hundred-pound surcharge that is required to add a foot camera to the Creative model line.
Creative Live! Cam Video IM
External look Creative Live! Cam Video IM
Let's say we paid an extra 15 dollars and bought Creative Live! Cam Video IM. What do we take for this pittance? If you take another look at the table of technical characteristics, you can note that the cameras are identical in almost all respects, except for the maximum separate output (including only when a single still frame is stored), as well as an additional video compression format current YUV2. And those other things, as I see it, don’t mean so much for a merchant.
And the axis of importance in the design of cases is significantly different. Thus, Cam Video IM is equipped with an additional button for borrowing money. In addition, Cam Video IM has a much different base, which gives it greater stability on the table, and also securely secures the camera to the body of the PK monitor. In this manner, the additional payment will be provided Cutting design the camera body, and no more.
We are deprived of comparing the resulting test images of these two cameras. Checking the optical system for clarity and focusing - ISO Resolution Chart.
Creative Live! Cam Video IM: ISO Resolution Chart
As with Cam Vista IM, there is a need to spread the image from the center to the edge due to loss of clarity, which indicates the same problems in the optical system.
A box of color markers allows you to evaluate the authenticity
transfer of colors
On auto-adjustment, the camera clearly overdoes the contrast, which, coupled with crappy optics, further degrades the detail of the picture. In color transmission, one is careful to “average” cold shades and clearly overemphasize warm ones.
Creative Live! Cam Optia
Creative Live! Cam Optia in packaging for retail sale
Camera Live! Cam Optia boasts an unconventional, stylish design due to the white, clear design of the body elements. The cylinder on which the lens is located allows you to rotate it by 270 degrees. The ring at the base of the cylinder is supplemented with a clear insert, which is illuminated by a blue LED. When you turn the lens to the lowest point and look at the base of the camera, the LED goes out, thereby demonstrating that in this position the camera is frozen.
External look Creative Live! Cam Optia
The clear base of the chamber is supplemented with gum pads, which run along the table. To mount the camera on the RC monitor in the same stand, there is a spring insert - however, it is unreliable and sticks, as if on me, to “additional” adhesive tape.
Live! Cam Optia does not require additional drivers and is ready for operation immediately after connecting to a computer. This, however, has its drawback - the camera does not support VFW-i, even stronger, TWAIN interface (necessary for linking the camera with a graphics programs). In this manner, Live! Cam Optia works only with Windows Driver Model (WDM).
The camera is equipped with a heavy-duty lens with a ring for manual focusing. I guess, webcams equipped with manual focusing allow you to set a minimum distance to the object. Well, that’s not what the statements say technical characteristics cameras. This power allows one to see details that are inaccessible to the eye without a special glass. As a butt, I will present a fragment of a five-copied coin, learning for help Live! Cam Optia at its minimum focal length:
Fragment of a five-copied coin
To connect to a computer, the camera uses a USB 2.0 interface. The maximum video image size is 640x480 pixels at a speed of 30 frames/sec. This allows you to stream the video smoothly, without any visible disturbances.
The camera package includes a cute little bag for carrying it. In addition, in the package the buyer will find a CD with proprietary software, as well as earbuds connected to a microphone clip that is attached to the collar of the jacket. Slide indicate that Live! Cam Optia costs almost twice as much as Cam Video IM, but is it much better at displaying pictures? Let's evaluate it in our test images.
Creative Live! Cam Optia: ISO Resolution Chart
Varto know that in terms of the optical system, Cam Optia is superior to Vista IM and Video IM cameras. Please note that from the center to the edges of the table there is practically no drop in sharpness, all symbols are easy to read. There are also no geometric problems.
The transfer of colors is ruined: blue and violet are lost
Some of the colors have a noticeable skid in cold shades, and the blue felt-tip pen may not fade away from the purple; The color density here is greatly reduced. Is it possible to pay an additional twenty dollars to make up for this shortfall? Then let's look at the webcam, which is the most expensive model in our eyes.
Creative Live! Cam Voice
Creative Live! Cam Voice in packaging for retail sale
The Cam Voice camera is great because it has two microphones, which operate under the control of the company's Adaptive Array Microphone technology. This power allows you to recognize and remove the unloved background noise to achieve the clearest possible voice transmission. This feature is most useful when working with audiovisual amalgamation programs in the minds of people with increased noise sensitivity. If the microphone is placed on the front insert, its orientation now directly corresponds to the “look” of the camera lens.
Two microphones in the middle of the camera
It’s no less important that for your privacy, the camera comes with a hand-held “hands-free” headset that folds into the headset and microphone.
The camera connects to the USB port (as is the case with the webcam). At the bottom part of the front panel LED indicator, which is illuminated in red when the camera is in operation and green when the camera is idle. Enhancement and initialization of the camera occurs either automatically - after launching the camera application, or manually - by pressing a single button on the device, which, however, also leads to the activation of the camera program (WebCam Center).
Webcam Creative Live! Cam Voice - the most expensive camera in our opinion
The design of the camera mounting allows it to be reliably installed either on a flat surface or on a vertical edge (LCD monitor, laptop cover). It is based on a hinge that ensures virtually any direction of the lens.
The Cam Voice camera is equipped with a wide-cut lens (field of view 85 degrees) and a 1.3-megapixel CMOS sensor, through which the actual (physical) separation of the camera becomes 1280x960 pixels, and interpolated, if desired captive static pictures – 2560x192. However, it should be noted that at the maximum value, the frame refresh rate will be impossible to raise above 12 frames/sec, which means that the smoothness of the movements will be completely wasted - the human eye can better perceive the movements on the screen smoothly, only if the frame rate exceeds 18 frames /sec. In the separate 640x480 mode, the camera will provide a basic 30 frames/sec.
Many camera users will find the Smart Face Tracking function useful, which automatically monitors the camera’s movements (and therefore does not go beyond the field of view of the lens) and scales up the face of the camera, stagnating almost every time the program increases.
Below are photographs taken at the physical resolution of the camera in three modes of operation. The ISO Resolution Chart test allows us to see how exactly the web camera captures all the details, as well as evaluate the brightness of the optical system:
More advanced modes are installed in the camera settings - in the "Display Mode" section on the "Extended Settings" tab.
In the "Format" section you can set the desired color space and compression type ("Color Space / Compression"), the image allowed for displaying ("Output size"), as well as the frame rate ("Frame rate").
Kolyorova camera transfer
Creative Live! Cam Voice, despite its high output, ensures seamless color transfer with minimal interference. The noise-attenuation system, which is used to see the free audio stream, copes well with the tasks placed on it. The camera is better and more securely mounted, and there are practically no shortcomings.
Vlasnikov laptop computers We also didn’t forget: our respect goes to a number of specialized web cameras from Creative. There are five different names available, but only two portable devices in this series are currently available.
The main utility of cameras for portable computers, as compared to standard ones, is the mount for a laptop and the ability to place it on a table (so that such a camera can be placed on a table, rather than placed). In addition, for webcams for laptops, the USB cable is shortened, so it doesn’t exceed a meter.
Creative WebCam Live! Ultra for Notebooks
Camera Live! Ultra for Notebooks, as seen from the cameras, is equipped with a CCD sensor.
Structurally, this web camera consists of two parts: a miniature rotating lens and a “base” in which all the electronic filling is stored. The camera is secured to the laptop with a clamp clip. The lens rotates at the horizontal plane up to 180 degrees.
Just like the Cam Voice camera, the Live! Ultra allows you to set three image viewing modes: Normal, Letterbox and Pan-Scan. I take pictures taken on a completely separate camera (640x480) Live! Ultra has three robot modes:
Normal mode – wide cut with powerful barrel-shaped controls,
beyond the maximum burial zone
Letterbox mode – hot zone with 3:2 aspect ratio
Pan-Scan mode – burn zone with 4:3 aspect ratio
The ISO Resolution Chart test table is displayed, as you see, without significant geometrical differences (except in the “Normal” mode, which camera lens has a “fish eye” known to photographers), with a good level of detail. So, of course, let’s talk about the nasty optical system of the webcam.
WebCam Live! Ultra for Notebooks: ISO Resolution Chart
There is a slight discrepancy in the color transfer, since the red color seems to be like “carrots”, you can not take it out of respect. Can you tell me what Live camera! Ultra is more beautiful for other participants color palette This may be due to the CCD sensor.
Practical rendition of colors
In my opinion, WebCam Live! Ultra for Notebooks is a great add-on for portable computers. It’s only bad that the physical space is surrounded by 640x480 pixels.
Creative Live! Cam Notebook Pro
Creative Live! Cam Notebook Pro in packaging for separate sale
Another webcam for computers is Cam Notebook Pro. All users of the Pro console may be wary of the fact that this model is more serious, lower than the front. We can honestly say that the “Ultra” and “Pro” consoles have long been a favorite among marketers of companies, not just Creative, and have long been used to signify good technical characteristics of the device. The real nature of speeches can only be determined from the results of testing one or another test.
In front of the camera, given model equipped with a VGA CMOS sensor. The maximum separate area is also framed by 640x480 pixels, but the image refresh rate for this area cannot be more than 15 frames/sec, and the video stream transmission requires additional USB interface 1.1. I guess Live! Ultra refresh rate on this separate site can reach 30 frames/sec.
External look Creative Live! Cam Notebook Pro
Due to its design, the camera allows you to wrap the lens up to 270 degrees. In addition, when rotating more than 90 degrees (at the top point), the image is automatically rotated and broadcast in the window.
The set has been delivered Live! Cam Notebooks Pro includes a nice carrying case, a hands-free headset (one earphone with a large drop-shaped microphone), a CD with an installation software, and installation instructions.
The lens of the Cam Notebook Pro is even simpler, folded into one lens, and focusing is adjusted manually. The robot has its own negative effects: if you look at the ISO Resolution Chart, the first thing that comes up is a significant output of sharpness from the center to the edges (the “blind eye”), as well as barrel-like geometric shapes creation.
Creative Live! Cam Notebook Pro: ISO Resolution Chart
In terms of the reliability of color transfer, we also have something to compare with. Marvel for yourself:
The transition between colors is normal, but the transitions between different colors are heavily blurred.
You can see symbols behind the test images, so Ultra model Still, it’s better than Pro, but this console itself does not allow you to register Creative Live! Cam Notebook Pro is up to “professional models”, which would not mean the same thing.
Creative software
All Creative webcams come with the company's unified security software. With this help, a number of standard tasks are introduced, such as, for example, video recording, storage of single images, remote monitoring, rogue detector, and so on. And with the additional Lapse Video function, you can organize the process of monitoring indoor weeds - a program for working photos with at a given interval, As a result, a great video series may appear.
Start window for task management
When we click on the control program, a start window opens in front of us, in which we can select a task to select for us at the moment.
The “Motion Detection” function allows you to use the webcam for security purposes: it will take pictures in the event that it reaches the area that is being defended. To do this, you need to point the camera lens at the point of tension and follow some simple adjustments in the driver.
Window for setting up the roc detector
Setting it up is easy. Here, as you can see, there is a sensitivity regulator, which indicates the threshold for applying the frame to the frame, as well as the installation of pressure behind the adjacent area of the zone that is being controlled. The program can be adjusted to store single frames and record video fragments. All video information that was recorded without a recorder can be transferred to you on email or ftp server.
The window for setting up remote monitoring
The Remote Monitoring function allows you to use an electronic camera to broadcast selected frames to the Internet after setting an hour. In the "Remote Monitoring" tab, you can configure settings for the FTP server or web site, as well as set time intervals between frame captures.
TWAIN interface
These cameras, which have a driver that supports the TWAIN interface, allow you to transfer images directly to third-party programs. For example, the accumulation of static frames can be sought for help Adobe Photoshop. True axis, in the end I'll look back in advance, as you say, it’s already too little.
Live! Cam Console
Webcam settings can be adjusted in the "Console" window. Here, as you can see from the screenshot, you can try the desired image using the web camera. The set of basic customization functions can vary from model to model, using the Exposure, Brightness, Contrast and Color controls. In addition to the driver, the Backlight Compensation and Sharpness functions can be enabled.
In Cam Console you can enable additional effects – in the “Advanced Video FX” section. In which type of image, which is broadcast on the window, will be decorated with some kind of filter: for example, in one version the picture looks like a Christmas leaf, in another - like a landscape, in the third - like a kaleidoscope, and so on. By the way, in practice, all the effects are reduced, be it any practical value and storage, including for gambling.
For some models of Creative webcams, the main software shell may be divided into parts graphical interface Prote logic is set up and control of all web cameras of Vitriman's company in a formal style.
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So, at the end of our review, you should fill up the remaining pouch. The best of the six webcams is the Creative Live model! Cam Voice, which showed itself well in terms of color, the quality of the optical system and that set brown authorities, as I would so much like to be able to avoid all such devices. I would appreciate the excellent design of the eye Creative web camera Live! Cam Optia, which is called “the best buy”, does not have TWAIN support and even better color transfer. And, of course, among other devices, the model with the Ultra suffix, designed for laptops, looks bad.
Today we have launched several models of webcams from Creative, so we expect that we will soon turn to webcams manufactured by Creative and other companies. We are always ready to consider the propositions and concerns of our readers, which can be identified either in our conference, or directly from me, behind the address indicated on the page of the article. Hail mercy!..
