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This review is from: Creative Live! Cam Socialize HD 1080 1080P,12MP WebcamI don't often write reviews, but every once in a while a product comes along that is so terrible and has caused so much grief that I am compelled to put together a review. If I help even one person avoid buying this thing, I will have done my part to make the world a better place.First and foremost, while I was fairly certain the "1080p HD" stuff was likely a gimmick, I failed to realize how much of a gimmick it is. My guess based on my image quality testing is that this is actually a 640x360 webcam (that's 360p, or 1/3 of the advertised horizontal lines) with a pretty box and a "1080p" label. What a joke! (I have tried, fruitlessly, to confirm the actual sensor resolution from Creative support. The fact they dodged the question when writing back to me seems telling.)Then there's the issues with just about every function of the camera:-Auto-focus is unnecessary since the closest focus distance covers from your computer chair to across the room. But with no option to permanently disable it, you'll have to disable it each time you use the cam, or wait 30 sec every so often for it to figure out if you are 100 feet away, or if you are, in fact, in the same room as the camera. (uh, duh)-Exposure also works terribly, using what seems to be an even averaging of the field of view to determine how much light sensitivity to use. There are no settings for exposure other than some post-capture filters. So if your background takes up a good amount of the image (the wide angle lens pretty much guarantees this), and it is not lit at the same level as your face, you can expect your face to have blown-out whites or detail-less shadows. Software image filters can't fix this kind of mis-exposure. The cam desperately needs manual exposure control because the terrible firmware is not capable of anything useful.-White balance has a similar problem as exposure and auto-focus. It is based on an averaging of the field of view, so if your background isn't white, be prepared to be a weird color when set to auto. It can (thankfully) be manually configured, but it is difficult to get right because 1/5th of the slider are levels within reason, and the rest are cosmic reds.In summary, don't waste your time, money, patience, or whatever else you enjoy having by buying this product. I'm sorry that I can't offer an alternative to this item. But I have been so soured by this purchase, that I am convinced that all webcams are just a ruthless marketing game played by companies to shamelessly lure unwitting, computer/technology illiterate consumers into actually believing they got a great HD camera. And the sad part is, many people do! (See: everyone who gave a positive review of this camera.) For now it is back to using the cheapo cam I got for $15 2 years ago. The quality of my old cam is really not that much worse when taken on the whole.Note: These issues were all experienced with the latest drivers, firmware, and software for the cam as of 8/17. I even uninstalled and re-installed everything to humor the Creative support people. It's difficult to fix poorly designed hardware by updating software...
This review is from: Creative Live! Cam Socialize HD 1080 1080P,12MP WebcamVery disappointed with this Creative brand web camera. The voice quality is really bad and I have to talk very close to the camera for other people to understand me, otherwise I think the noise cancellation feature is canceling out my own voice.
This review is from: Creative Live! Cam Socialize HD 1080 1080P,12MP WebcamI bought this item and exchanged for another one, but both of them couldn't see anything when I took the webcam toward outside. My old Creative webcam VF0050 can do it.I don't know why. What should I do?
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