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Golovna Additional functionality Enter Personal computers have long been transformed from local, isolated devices into 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 plan to look at six similar devices with
model range Creative company. Technical characteristics
As we speak about permission, it is necessary to remember that in most cases the transmitter indicates numbers higher than the hardware resolution of the sensor - it cannot be output 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, so the geometric shape and spread of the image at the edges are even 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 type of recording 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.
The type of vibrator here may be included additionally security software, Skype certificates, various telephone headsets with microphones, cases for transportation, and so on. To find out everything in detail, let’s take a closer look at the models tested in our test laboratory. Creative Live
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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 partition 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:
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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 cool tones: Kozhen Myslyvets Bazhai Znaty…
We are deprived of comparing the resulting test images of these two cameras.
Checking the optical system for clarity and focusing - ISO Resolution Chart.
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Cam Video IM: ISO Resolution Chart
Much like Cam Vista IM, there is a need to spread the image out of 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 settings, 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.
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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.
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.
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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;, which is illuminated in red when the camera is in operation and green when the camera is idle.
Increased and initialization of the camera occurs either automatically - after launching the application, or manually - by pressing a single button on the device, which also allows you to open the application (WebC am Center).
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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 real (physical) camera allows 1280x960 pixels, and interpolated when a static image is stored – 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 lost - the human eye will now be able to see the movements on the screen as smooth as the frame rate exceeds 18 frames /sec.
In the separate 640x480 mode, the camera will provide a basic 30 frames/sec.
Many photographers will find the Smart Face Tracking function useful, which automatically follows the camera operator’s movements (and therefore does not go beyond the field of view of the lens) and scales up the face, stagnating and reusing the program. ilshennya.
The owners of portable computers have also not been ignored: their respect is paid 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.
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Ultra for Notebooks
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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
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.
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Ultra refresh rate on this separate site can reach 30 frames/sec.
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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 kit is post-production Live!
All Creative webcams come with the company's unified security software. With this help, a number of standard tasks are introduced, such as video recording, single image storage, remote monitoring, leak 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, the initial stage of application for storing the frame, and we will direct the installation of the tension around the controlled area.
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.
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, but the same controls include Exposure, Brightness, Contrast and Color. 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 some kind of landscape, in the third - like a kaleidoscope, and so given.
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.
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
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Cam in Person HD VF0720
The kit, I will attach it, is included
short instructions
The equipment is exactly the same as in the older model, except for a CD.
It’s true, it’s not much at all.
If the USB cable for this camera is 1.5 m, then the cameras are clearly intended for use with stationary PCs, and the cameras, it happens, stand here to the side or on the underside, far from the monitor, for any use Or else 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.
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You may guess, they are also designed to increase friction when attached to the top edge of the monitor. |
Main | technical characteristics |
web cameras are located in the table: |
Microphone(s) | |
Quadrophonic, focusing and noise canceling |
Mono, with noise reduction function | |
Madness from the OS |
Plug & chat function for Windows, Mac OS X 10.5 and Linux 2.6 | Interface |
USB 2.0 |
Separate video content | 1920×1080 |
1600×1200 |
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Keruvannya behind the touch screen
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Batkivsky control
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.
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| 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.
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.
| On account of web cameras, which are still only capable of transmitting video. | The kit, I will attach it, is included | For example, this: Microsoft LifeCam VX-800. |
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Nothing noticeable, a standard camera for spiritual affairs Skype.
Now let's take a look at the table we know with this camera.
Microsoft VX-800
Aje is progress, it’s hard to feel it!
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The reader is sleeping: what do we all need here?
Even though it's a webcam, it doesn't require clarity or clarity 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. 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
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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 exchange of information immediately after purchase. Use a microphone for recording via the Internet. High-quality VGA matrix for capturing clear, clear images.
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Cost-free software Live!
Central Lite adds a host of essential features, including
Father's control and the training of the koristuvach. Thanks to the universal mounting bracket, the camera can be placed on any flat surface or monitor.
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Vendor code:
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.
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Easy connection via USB port.
Use a microphone for meeting video and telephone conversations on the Internet. Madness with 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.
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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.
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