Finally a cam that don't require a million lights to work

Well I been trying unsuccessfully for the last several months to use a Phillips DMVC-300K. That cam required 2 lamps and ceiling fans uplight on high (8 bulbs) I have been on the look out for a replacement and stumbled upon this Logitech Quickcam Fusion.

Specifications:
• 1.3 Megapixel High Quality Lens
• USB 2.0
• Low Distortion, wide angle lens
• Logitech Video Effects
• Rightlight 2™ technology
• RightSound™ technology
• Video capture: Up to 640x480 pixels
• Still image capture: True 1280x960 pixels; Up to 4 MP (software enhanced)
• Frame rate: Up to 30 frames per second (with recommended system specs)

System Requirements:
• IBM® or compatible PC
• Pentium® P4 1.4 GHz or AMD Athlon® processor 1 GHz (Pentium® P4 2.4 GHz or better recommended)
• 128MB RAM (256MB RAM recommended)
• 200 MB free hard drive space
• CD-ROM drive
• 16-bit color display adapter
• Windows compatible sound card and speakers
(Full duplex sound card recommended)
• Available 1.1 or 2.0 USB port (USB 2.0 High Speed port required for megapixel image capture)

Installation: It is extremly important that you install the driver before hooking the camera up to your computer. I would also like to highly recommend that you go to Logitech's home page and download the most recent driver as opposed to using the driver on the disc, as it is quit old. Also for Windows XP users the latest driver requires at least Service Pack 2.

Once you install the driver it will ask you to plug the camera into an available USB port on your computer. Once you do that it will finish the installation and pop open a window showing the cam in operation.

Impression The color rendition, and overall quality of this camera is leaps and bounds over what I have come to expect from my old webcam. Sure it does require some light to be on, and the Rightlight technology is gimmicky at best, but any cam is going to require proper light to function. Now you may ask why I just said that Rightlight is gimmicky, well it slows the camera way down in order for it to work in lower light settings. When the camera is slowed down to such a degree, the frames drop dramatically and any movement you make is blurry and glitchy.

Even with all that said I highly recommend this camera, it is high quality, and has a lot of features that I haven't seen on cheaper cams such as the ability to pan the image around and zoom in and out.

I have yet to try out the Logitech avatars and add-ons, they basically will transform you into a character, or change the background to old-timey, cartoonish, 80's rock video (just to name a few) then the addons such as eyeglasses, a crown, and many more downloadable from Logitech's home page.