Microsoft LifeCam Cinema,Webcam with built-in noise cancelling Microphone, Light Correction, USB Connectivity, for video calling on Microsoft Teams/Zoom, compatible with Windows 8/10/11/ Mac

hi value, replaced it when the previous camera/mic was geting bad reviews from work, this one works great.

really excellent...can move it around

I got this on sale for $35.99, and for that price it's not hard to please me, but this camera is well worth more.The Microsoft LifeCam Cinema 720p HD Webcam is small and lightweight, but not chinsy--comparable to the dimensions of a 'C' battery. I thought this would be an issue against the weight of the long USB cable, but the rubber bending clamp is heavy enough that things balance out. Speaking of, you can use the clamp to mount your webcam to any monitor (Oldschool CRT, flat screen, laptop)or fold the clamp into a stand and mount it on your desk.Image quality is reasonable. Definitely 720p through LifeCam Studio, but it looks like the quality can vary depending on what software you use the camera with. The LifeCam Cinema 720p has a vast array of widescreen and standard resolutions to choose from, and tilt, pan, zoom, color, white balance, and focus controls built into it's LifeCam Studio software, and that's one recommendation I have is that you download the LifeCam Studio software and most current driver from the Microsoft website to avoid any hangups. Otherwise, I'm impressed with how this camera integrates into other software. FFSplit and Skype have no problems recognizing it, and I'm even able to use the LifeCam software controls within them.The mic quality is solid: Loud, clear, and responsive. It's still a desktop mic so it clips easily and doesn't handle much range, but all in all a great mic for casual and business conversations. I actually feel dumb for buying a microphone headset now...Of course this is a Microsoft camera, so big surprise that the "call" button on the back of the camera auto-launches MSN Messenger, which I hate. A brief search doesn't show any ways to customize it to another program like Skype.Lastly, this thing gets hot when it's on. Scary hot. "Is it about to catch on fire?" hot. It hasn't yet. But I don't know why it needs to channel so much power.All in all, for the price range, I can dig it.

In Windows 7 and older platforms this webcam could do several things:1. Live Chat with Control Panel Settings2. Take Pictures with Control Panel Settings from your Desktop3. Record Videos with Control Panel Settings from your DektopIn Windows 8.1 it can only do #1, however, it does so excellently.It CAN NOT do #2 or #3 in Windows 8.1, and if you contact customer servicefor Microsoft support, as of May 20th, 2015, they admit this is a problem.However, I am able to use my Logitech and my Creative Live Webcams to do #2 and #3,so I will keep my Microsoft LifeCam Cinema HD for Live Chat, aka #1, because the image qualityis so crisp and beautiful and excellent in Live Chat, aka #1.If you are desperate to take a pic or record a video, and you have Windows 8.1, I have foundthat if you go to your apps section and right click on the screen, and hit change cam untilyou are randomly accessing your LifeCam Cinema HD, you are able to snap pics and record videosthere, however, you ARE NOT ABLE TO ACCESS YOUR CONTROL PANEL TO ADJUST SETTINGSAND LIGHTING ETC. This is so sad because this webcam, on past platforms, it absolutely phenomenal.I hope that they get this problem fixed.So if you are a you tuber, and want to record excellent videos, I would recommend doing some research onfinding a photo and video taking camera that really does it all and has the compatibility that you are looking for.Have an awesome day.And once again I cannot emphasize enough the beauty of this camera when used in Live Chatting Broadcasts.Thank you. :)

When I unboxed it I was surprised at how small it is: about 2.5" long. The "foot" part flexes, so you can bend the T part back and it perches very nicely on top of my monitor. The microphone is... well, a tiny microphone - I won't be using it as I have a boom-arm mounted Behringer running through a TubeAmp which sounds about 100x better. Picture quality: I bought this because it supposedly had good low light quality - and it does in a weird fashion. I have a 100 watt bulb lighting my room, so it is a bit dim. The webcam picks up me and the room just fine, and the image actually isn't dark, so that part works. But there must be some micro-vibrations or digital interpolation or something, because pixels are constantly changing values slightly all over the screen - looks a little like static on a TV. When the picture is shrunk this noise goes away almost entirely, but I feel like at full screen HD the camera is straining too hard. For me that's okay, because I mainly want a facecam in one corner of the video; but for some this might be distracting, and the noise might have a negative effect on any video-calls you make, with all those unneeded screen updates. The final thing that struck me is the cord length - about 5.5 feet; my PC sits under my desk to one side, to help eliminate fan noise, and the top of my monitor is about 4 feet above it, so the cord is pretty tight as it wraps around my desk.Software installation was simple under Windows 8.1 - I plugged it in and it downloaded the drivers. I tried the LifeCam software and it worked okay with Skype, but isn't really flexible enough. Instead I downloaded DeskCam (free) and it works like a charm - a resizable image on top of all your windows that can be moved around to where you want it. LifeCam + CamDesk = very nice FaceCam for making videos. You can also go full screen with it, which is where I noticed the screen noise. All things said, it did meet my needs nicely - I just don't think it lives up fully to the advertised claims.