Need a WebCam

WatchTower · 27 Mar 2006 at 03:44

I built my first PC from scratch for my dad on saterday it all worked 1st time apart from a power LED which was easy to sort out yay me.

Now back to the point.

The PC will be used by my little bro who is a MSN nutter and my Mum and Dad who are Ebay nutters.

So a webcam is needed for MSN and it'l be needed to take good quailty photos of items for Ebay. I think he'll pay up to about £45.

I'l be greatfull for any help
Thanks

Andy100 · 27 Mar 2006 at 04:32

Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 - Retail (WC-014-LG) 1
£32.95 £32.95
Subtotal £32.95
VAT £5.77
Total £38.72

Really good webcam with built it mic. It's easy to set up and easy to use.

Energize · 27 Mar 2006 at 04:39

Eyetoy, best webcam out there, integrated mic and costs £7.

4T5 · 27 Mar 2006 at 09:01

Energize said:
Eyetoy, best webcam out there, integrated mic and costs £7.

This man speaks the truth.
I have an old Logitech webcam works fine enouth but a mate on MSN has the eyetoy and it owns. The pictures are crystal clear and loads better than mine.
Eyetoy for the win.

volt9291 · 27 Mar 2006 at 09:04

yeah look on the bay for an eyetoy. Really good IMO

amx · 27 Mar 2006 at 09:08

I bought the quickcam pro recently and it is a really good camera, the picture quality is superb.

However, if you use daemon tool's this webcam can be a pain as there seems to be some compatibility problems between the webcam driver and the daemon tool's SCSI driver.

If you have daemon tools installed, Windows will not boot if the webcam is plugged in during startup. It has to be unplugged when windows is shut down and plugged back in once you are at the desktop

stickman1 · 27 Mar 2006 at 09:19

malc30 said:
This man speaks the truth.
I have an old Logitech webcam works fine enouth but a mate on MSN has the eyetoy and it owns. The pictures are crystal clear and loads better than mine.
Eyetoy for the win.

Another vote for the eyetoy

SidewinderINC · 27 Mar 2006 at 10:56

stickman1 said:
Another vote for the eyetoy

+1 to the eyetoy votes!

ArmyofHarmony · 27 Mar 2006 at 14:08

Guys i've been using an Eye Toy webcam but i have a problem,

sometimes it just isnt recognised in windows.

example,

I plug it in, the light comes on the eye toy... moments later i get some USB error saying it doesn't recognise the device (doesn't allow me to reinstall drivers).

Now sometimes, it works fine... i don't know why... I might try using it a few days later and it will randomly be working (assume i had it plugged in since it didn't work the first time).

I got the eye toy of ebay, maybe its faulty... i don't know...

When it works though, the quality is great.

Dreadi · 27 Mar 2006 at 14:26

with the eyetoy, i read somewhere that you have to install the drivers everytime you unplug it and then plug it back in, is this true ??

ArmyofHarmony · 27 Mar 2006 at 15:38

its probably true, when mine works im pretty sure it makes me install drivers again

but sometimes it randomly works on its own

Gibber · 27 Mar 2006 at 20:19

Dreadi said:
with the eyetoy, i read somewhere that you have to install the drivers everytime you unplug it and then plug it back in, is this true ??

I have an Eyetoy and have never had to do this....