Delurking to offer a heads-up: The Windows 10 Anniversary Update borked a lot of webcams recently, including this one. A fix is apparently inbound at some point in September but confidence is not high. It's a great cam (I have one) but currently does not work on W10.

More info (and lots of user frustration) here: https://community.logitech.com/s/question/0D53100005Hy18SCAR

In December 2015 I paid £30.99 at Amazon because it was so cheap, no doubt because I saw it on HUKD. Great webcam that I have never used.

Lol. We added it at the same time. You were 2 mins quicker :wink: heat from me of course as it's worth it.

A quick search for reviews make it seem quite old?

I have been using that for almost two years now, brilliant device so far, worth every penny. The autofocus works well, video quality is on point and low light performance is impressive for a webcam that "old". The only issue is that sometimes the Logitech Webcam Software doesn't retain the white balance settings that I have manually set.

I recommend this product!

In December 2015 I paid £30.99 at Amazon because it was so cheap, no doubt because I saw it on HUKD. Great webcam that I have never used.

Delurking to offer a heads-up: The Windows 10 Anniversary Update borked a lot of webcams recently, including this one. A fix is apparently inbound at some point in September but confidence is not high. It's a great cam (I have one) but currently does not work on W10.

More info (and lots of user frustration) here: https://community.logitech.com/s/question/0D53100005Hy18SCAR

Do people still use webcams?!

It's a great webcam. I use this on Windows 10 64 with no problems.

Want to sell it to me? Haha

anyone using it with a Raspberry Pi?

This is hands-down the best webcam out there. Yes it's been released a couple of years now. But nothing has beaten it yet, at least in my opinion. For the record, I have written and am still writing lots of programs for this camera.

Yes its old but still one of the top webcams.
If anyone has it and not using just sell it. Prices on eBay are about 30 quid for used ones.

Great Webcam. Well worth the money. I bought it at £45

Worth mentioning that the webcam can be found in Amazon Warehouse for £34.41 (very good) and £36.29 (like new). Students can get it for under £30 as part of the current Amazon Student 20% off :smiley:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B006A2Q81M/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

Should have said in my OP but I'm using Win 64 pro with AU.

Paid £34 for it used for it for £28 as a student! :smiley:

But a phone can connect to wifi as much as a laptop/desktop can. Most laptops have cameras too, hence my question.

In my case a webcam on top of the TV is a must. Kids, living room, running non stop. With a Phone/tablet I have to follow them around ...

Phones these days connect to wifi.

Indeed, very good webcam. Got it in June 2015 at £31.99. Works well on Linux too. Currently connected to a Lenovo Stick PC (Windoze 10) plugged in to the TV for "larger than life" size Skype!!

I expected someone to say something like that, but phones on camera arent quite the same and wear down battery crazy fast, these are useful for long calls with family and you can just mount it to monitor and such.

And very good for conference calls because of large monitor screen sizes compared to phones.

And most laptops I have tried have awful webcams in some ways more awkward to use than a phone as its locked in position so you can just tilt it, useless if you want to show things like your room easily, a external webcam has the best of both a camera phone and laptop and once connected to a network thats it, no worries about battery life you have high quality image, a wide camera, can easily move it about and better framerates too.

Even know people who attach webcams to laptops so they can show work for presentations and such.


Where did I say they didn't? For reasons look at reply above.

Literally bought this at 11pm last night for £44.99. Tried to cancel it when I seen this deal this morning, but was too far along in the process to cancel, so thought I'd get the difference refunded via chat, but was told Amazon no longer price match. Aaaaand, because I have it ordered, I can't order at the cheaper price and return the dearer one, as it is 1 per customer.

I own one of these webcams. They are excellent. @ £38 is an amazing price. Hot from me.

All kinds. From inspection systems to demos involving projectors. Works nicely with lots of open source toolkits

How do I get the student 20% off?

On the latest Windows 10 x64 build and just a couple of days ago I used this camera to speak with family for over an hour, zero problems. I did see the issues people were having and the very easy fix (if you are having such problems) but no one has asked me about it.

There are so many benefits performance wise of having 10 over 7, mainly for RAM and SSD's. I have found gaming performance to be excellent too. I wouldn't ever downgrade to 7 again.

Might also be worth noting that Logitech as of late August added this camera to their Gaming Software: http://support.logitech.com/en_gb/product/hd-pro-webcam-c920#download

There are no benefits performance wise of having 10 over 7.
None.
On the contrary.

RAM performance increase? Seriously? Seriously?

Just received mine.
Plugged in to a Mac and am getting a slight strobing effect on the lighting.
Looks like it might be due to 50Hz/60Hz or PAL/NTSC? Is there a free way to fix or is anyone else having the same problem?