Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision SE Webcam

I just got the camera today and installed the lastest software release (2/27/07) from logitech website. Camera video is fine under different lighting condtitions. Even with lights turned off camera produced nice video. It is a bit expensive but I think it is worth the price. The audio is fine too. There is no echo and the voice is clear.

This is by far the best camera I have ever used. Seriously I have tried practically every brand out there from the ones that you cant make out the room from the light to those that just keeps freezing. I am a Tech geek who almost give up on webcam until I give this a try the 4.0 Mega Pixel option is amazing with video conferencing and the picture is crystal clear, no freezing frames and I can even recognize a needle in a Haystack (I tried it lol) I would recommend this to anyone who's shopping for the best of the best!

This webcam is very responsive, gives excellent image quality and the software some have complained about from previous versions is now in excellent shape. The sound quality is equally excellent. Extremes in lighting conditions cause the webcam some indigestion, but it will soon settle down. I found the image to be surprisingly stable when I jostled my laptop. It also follows me around as if there's someone inside watching me. This webcam is truly worth having if it's quality you want. If it's compactness, this is not the one for you, but Logitec has a number of smaller, more compact webcams specifically made for laptops.

This one is easy to use, quiet start-up and motion tracking; picture is sharp in bright light. However, low and back light are still the issue so you will not properly create some animation faces to have fun with friends or relatives; but it's only a minor problem. Generally, this product is very good or perhaps it is too early to reach a conclusion.

I just received and tested yesterday a QuickCam Ultra Vision Special Edition. I really like it. It is not the smallest video camera Logitech makes (The tube is almost 2 inches in diameter) but the replacement of the plastic lens for the glass lens gives the 1.3Megapixel images a dramatically sharper look. I had a chance to compare this camera with the slightly cheaper Fusion model from Logitech. They both used the same computer software installation so that rapid plug-in comparisons were easy. The 1.3Mpixle and the 720x960 pictures were just much sharper with the Ultra Vision Special Edition camera. I was pleasently surprised. It was not that the Fusion images were in any way really bad. I am sure the Fusion is very good for video conferences etc but if you are looking for the sharpest images I recommend this "Special Edition" camera. I only compared the resolution of the native 1.3 Megapixel mode and 720x960 video mode for capturing video data for a science experiment. The difference in quality was apparent for these images

One issue that I did no expect was that neither camera could take a good picture of a large 46 inch LCD flatscreen TV. My new video camcorder could do this with no problem. The problem with the Webcams is the video screen poriton of the image appears extremely overexposed while using either of the Logitech cameras. There is a software adjustment of "brightness" but this control did not have enough range to fix the problem. Using the WebCams I can take a good picture of my laptop screen. I think this difference with the large flatscreen is because the room lighting is different for the laptop. I did try turning the room lights for the large flatscreen on to full brightness to make the large flatscreen more visible but this was not enough to bring the exposure to the proper point. The flatscreen TV is simply too bright.

My concern for flatscreen TV issues is because one application I might have had for the camera is to take videos of human presenters while they are making Powerpoint presentations to groups of people while using a flat screen or video projector for showing the PowerPoint slides. It looks like this application for the WebCam would not work well.

For many applications I have the high image quality from the glass lens looks like this $129 camera is worth the extra money it costs.

This webcam is very easy to use and it has excellent functions and features. I have used under a variety of environments and lighting-backgrounds with excellent results.

I tried to install it with Vista, including downloading the so-called Vista compatible drivers, and it did not work with my SKYPE. Logitech has NO support that is worthy of the name. So you are on your own if it doesn't work. I added a second hard drive and went back to XP and it works better than any webcam I have ever had, and I use them in my work. I send each of my overseas clients a webcam as soon as they become clients (I practice international law). I will send them this one IF they are using XP.

I am disappointed in the fact that background light, facing this webcam, will
make it inoperable, resulting in either no picture or an extremely dark picture. It's ability to do extremely detail oriented zoom is very poor in comparison to the Microsoft VX 6000 lifecam. Would I recommend this webcam to others? No. For what I paid brand new, I should have gone with the VX 6000.

Electronica shipped me two of the standard version instead (also great looking), but there's no way I'd let go long enough to exchange them! And like everything else from Logitech, they're ingenious: the "mount" is a flexible counter-weight! The image quality is fantastic, and the face tracking software is uncanny!

I bought an MS LifeCam VX6000 and had it for less than six hours. It promised "HD quality video" blah, blah, blah. I opened it up, installed everything and tried a record with VirtualDub. VD is great because it tells you what frame rate you are actually capturing at. At regular VGA, it was only capturing at 15fps. Pitiful. I returned it and got the QuickCam UltraVision SE. I was immediately impressed. The video was bright in any light and the audio quality was excellent. It captured VGA video at the promised 30fps (29.??? is close enough). I had read a review of the non-Special edition that said it darkened the video. This is the SE and the picture looked great. I had never had a webcam before this really, so I did not know what to expect picture-wise. The best way to describe the video from this camera is "fair reception on an analog TV channel." It is not perfect, you will notice the scan lines, but it is watchable. The software enables you to set the video resolution up to 1280x960 but do not do it! The camera only supports that resolution at about 1fps. Another review of this cam said that the Logitech software package is huge and mostly useless. Because of this, I did not install the software, only the drivers, and it works wonderfully. A messenger app will have the video chat stuff built in, and a video capture program like VirtualDub or Windows Media Encoder only needs the drivers for this cam.

Awesome webcam. Works perfectly with Win XP on my computer.

Ordered 3 from TigerDirect Seller and was sent 3 entry level Logitech QuickCams in BAIT & SWITCH order. Seller continues to list more robust featured and expensive item with picture and price of less expensive entry level item. Going through feedback of seller, this appears to be a routine practice of theirs as they were selling Apple Mac Mini's and shipping ipod Nano's to customers this weekend as well. Buyer Beware when dealing with TigerDirect

This is a best buy, image clarity and face tracking function are wonderful. Definitely would buy second one.

For $35 this looks like a great bargain. I ordered one and was sent the low-resolution quickcam for notebooks. Tigerselect claims there is "no noticable difference".

This is a good-looking unit and with its glass lens, it is able to produce sharper images than other webcams I've used. OK, so why just a 3-star rating? The "RightLight Technology" is way overrated. During the day, when the subject (me) is backlighted by a large window, my image is a silhouette. This is no better than what can be expected from a $25 webcam. The "RightSound" is much better. It's great to be able to have Skype conversations without first having to put on a headset. The unit effectively cancels the voice feedback.

I like this webcam for the incorporated mic and the feedback fix and the glass lens, but Logitech needs to do more work on the backlighting problem.