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

Bought this for my decidedly non-technically-savvy mother so she can Skype with her grandson. Surprisingly nice performance, both picture and sound, even given modest internet connection speeds. It's smaller than I expected, simple to get working, and easy to hang just about anywhere -- on your monitor, edge of the desk, edge of a bookcase, etc. I'll admit that I'm no expert on webcams; I'm mostly comparing this to the little pinhole cameras that come with cheap laptops. That said, I really don't know how this could work much better, given the limitations of her hardware and internet connection. The only minor complaint is that sometimes the cam will hunt for focus, and she's not sure why. (My guess is it's something she's doing, or not doing, and not the cam's fault.) Well worth the purchase price.

Bought this camera with the sole intention of using it at home hooked directly to the PC. Man does it deliver very high quality video and picture clarity. Almost like the first time you ever turned on an HD TV and saw the crispness of the picture. For the price I think it is an excellent buy. The only "minor" thing I've noticed is the clarity of the sound that comes over my speaker set. Could be the setting that I have for listening to music isn't the best for SKYPE. It sounds "hollow" but that is fine. Once I plugged it in, my Vista 64bit was trying to download the software. I said wait til later. No Problem. Out of the box was great. I had already loaded SKYPE in prep for this but I had to enable the mic on the camera. Video worked but mic was not "on" by default. I think I also changed screen size too. Loading the software about a week later was painless also. My kids love those styles. We don't use them much. I think I'm going to trying sending a video email and see how that works. A small test of course to my non SKYPE contacts. Great camera and low price = happy customer!

The Microsoft LifeCam Cinema is a excellent starter camera for those aspiring to do small room webcasts, or Skyping sessions. The 720p resolution, and the TrueColor features make this camera stand out beyond most other brands and types in the 720p range. The Ups for this camera is that once you plug it into your computer (PC/MAC) it works. Albeit the Driver Installation on a Windows PC will automatically detect/download/install the correct drivers. And you can seemlessly start working with it immediately. The bad news is if you have more than One LifeCam (Studio/Cinema) on the same machine you will quickly discover you can't run two at the same time. You will have to trial and error your situation if you choose to use more than One Microsoft LifeCam per machine. I use TeleStream WireCast (4.3) and I still have trouble using a Studio and Cinema camera at the same time. Partly because these types of Webcams will utilize your USB Bus Bandwidth, so a solution to this problem is to add an additional USB Bus by a new USB PCI/PCI-Express expansion. Now in most end-user cases, you probably will only need one camera. If you like the LifeCam and want to use more than one at a time, you will find yourself in a lucky or unlucky category. The Lucky ones, have computers with high end USB Controllers (therefore CAN use more than one LifeCam) most don't have that luck. The Mic on this camera is awesome, it captures my webcasting voice from distances and close up volcume control automatically. The Auto Focus is very stable when attempting close ups to electrical components. You can control the focus, and use Digital Zoom as well. All in All, a good USB HD Web Cam

I purchased this Microsoft LifeCam after returning a Logitech C920, one of their top of the line web cams! Well, come to find out, the Logitech was NOT compatible with a certain Microsoft update for Windows 10! Long story short, this little LifeCam works great! Simply plug it into a USB and it loads itself and is up and running in less than 2 minutes! Always restart your computer after any new install, just to make sure. I was on Skype that same day and it works great! Clear picture on easy to mount on a monitor! For an inexpensive webcam, you can't beat this LifeCam Webcam.

I baught this webcam for using skype and to be able to use for taking pictures when no one could take pictures of me i was hoping the pictures would look a lot better then the webcam i had which was logitech and was a couple years old and also got it for taking videos to post on youtube. It arrived quickly very quicker then expected and the packaging was a lot differant then what was shown and expected which i found slightly strange it was in a smaller box but no complaints about the seller for the most part but issues with the webcam. To start off this webcam did not come with software i had to find it online which i do not like doing because of the risk of viruses and on top of that when i first tryed to take a video with it it froze half way through so i had to restart the program and it worked but only let me take one video then did it again very frustrating the audio often cuts in and out after i take one video i have to restart the program each time if i want to take another one right after even more frustrating. I would have to say the audio/ microphone when it is not cutting out is actually better then i expected and the pictures are deffinatly more pixelized then i expected also but still better then my old webcam, works great on skype though not a single issue with it and skype microphone crystal clear on other end can hear you perfect and video is pretty good does not seem to lag a lot on skype and is pretty clear imaging. all in all a couple problemes in my opinon annoying problemes i would not buy this again but i will use it untill it breaks also the design of it i was very impressed by seems very sturdy made of like metal kind of feeling not plastice which is nice and webcam is a lot smaller then shown. I would recomend this product to thoughs who want to have great audio and picture quality when skyping but that is about it.

These are excellent cameras. This is my second one, why? Excellent picture quality and great microphone quality. Clear sound and quick automatic focus.

really excellent...can move it around

Worked perfectly