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Logitech QuickCam Sphere (Orbit) AF
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2 32034 03-16-2010
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100% of reviewers $134.50 8.5



Description: This webcam is of the higher class and has some very neat options, like rotation, zooming, autofocus. It has a CarlZeiss lens resolution is at 2MegaPixels. I plugged it in my laptop that has Slackware 13.0 installed and it worked out of the box using the UVC drivers. Since I wanted to be able to use the extra options I started looking and testing software from SlackBuilds.org and installed the following.

libsndfile (1.0.20)
portaudio (V19)
twolame (0.3.12)
guvcview (1.2.0)

Using GUVCView I can take pictures at high resolution and of a very good quality, record video of the same resolution and quality, rotate the camera in any direction I need, zoom, and lots more.

I've also tested the camera with aMSN and webcam and videoconferencing worked perfectly.
Keywords: QuickCam Sphere webcam HighResolution
/sbin/lspci output: lsusb output:
Bus 001 Device 011: ID 046d:0994 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Orbit/Sphere AF
Connection Type: USB


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Old 12-31-2009, 11:32 AM   #1
EricTRA
 
Registered: May 2009
Distribution: Fedora 18 with Awesome WM
Posts: 6,796

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $214.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.29.6-smp
Distribution: Slackware 13.0



I advice anyone who wants a good camera to get this one. For my job I'm involved in quite a bit of videoconferencing and this webcam is perfect for this job.
 
Old 03-16-2010, 09:09 PM   #2
kernel-P4N1C
 
Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 140

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $55.00 | Rating: 7

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.29.6
Distribution: slackware 13 x86_64


Hi
This camera is great (got it cheap on ebay); but on slackware 13 x86_64 some of the programs you mentioned won't compile (or i'm just to lazy)

system automatically assign it to /dev/video0 and works ok with mplayer; but sometimes is not linked with /dev/video0 which is a pain... like right now.


Code:
root@dragon:/home/weput# lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 014: ID 046d:08c2 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam PTZ
Code:
root@dragon:/home/weput# ls /dev/video*
ls: cannot access /dev/video*: No such file or directory
 




  



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