Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000

usability, price, reliability, design

95% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

usability, price, design, reliability, size

93% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Design, Preisleistungsverhältnis, Größe

93% der Kundenmeinungen auf Amazon.de bewerten dieses Produkt positiv.

97% des avis sur Amazon.fr donnent une note favorable à ce produit.

remarkable. There are two solid ends, in between which is a flexible section that can be twisted into almost any shape, and the whole thing is coated in lovely soft-feel rubber. This, combined with the horizontally-swivelling head, makes the LifeCam...

Bright and clear video feed. Very easy install. Cool rubber grip. Good bundled software.

A few minor crashes. A few features work only with Windows Live Messenger. Audio quality only passable.

Audio quality for video chats was just passable. As long as you're sitting at your computer, your buddies can at least hear you talking. Because of the small microphone, if you move too far from the webcam, the audio goes silent faster than with other...

Size, good build quality, indicator light

Stand not great for laptops, struggles with bright light and contrasty scenes

It is a compact and smart looking little webcam that copes well with the demands of general webcam usage, from recording short internet videos, to chatting on Skype. Problems with the quality are pretty common to webcams and things are not so different...

Excellent image quality, especially in low light; flexible rubber stand provides a stable and versatile base.

LifeCam application is lackluster; not compatible with Macs.

Despite its uninspired software, the Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000 proves its worth with outstanding image quality, a funky and useful design, and low price.

Good performance for the price, integrated microphone, flexible stand doubles as laptop clamp

Some complaints about bundled software

Simple Install, Small and easy to position, User friendly

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Overall, however, the VX-5000 has enough features, usability, affordability and good looks to recommend it. We'd also like to see the flexible hinge continued on future Microsoft LifeCams.

Small Size ; Moldable base that can be placed almost anywhere on a desk ; 1.3 Mega Pixel camera and VGA (640x480) video recording ; Excellent picture quality and color accuracy in video chat ; Low video and image noise in all areas ; Simple to use...

Highly compressed photos at 1.3 mega pixels and fairly compressed video ; 640x480 video runs at 15fps ; LifeCam software wasn't particularly configurable

The LifeCam's packaging was very nice but came with a rather spartan accompany of materials. However, Microsoft's software support was particularly good and the appropriate software, drivers and chat program were all terribly easy to find, install and...