Product Description

HP's Deluxe Webcam has quick-launch buttons1 for chat, making videos, and taking photos, a 1.3 MP sensor, autofocus, and 8 MP photos are all included with our Deluxe Webcam. Use it with AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, or Yahoo Messenger.

Product Details

• Brand: Hewlett-Packard
• Model: KQ246AA
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: 2.59" h x 4.99" w x 6.00" l, .94 pounds

Features

• Up to 8-Megapixel still image capture with software interpolation.
• 1.3-Megapixel sensor with Autofocus in a small form factor webcam.
• Certified high-speed USB 2.0: take full advantage of your broadband access and enjoy up to 30 frames per second for smooth and natural body motion.
• Integrated wide angle microphone capture your voice from any position.
• Tilt and Pan: easily adjust your webcam to let you show what you want while maintaining a stable connection to your monitor.

Amazon.com Product Description
The compact HP Deluxe Webcam offers quick-launch buttons for chat, making videos, and taking photos, a 1.3 MP sensor, autofocus, and 8 MP photos are all included with our Deluxe Webcam. Use it with AIM, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, or Yahoo Messenger.

Features

• Up to 8-Megapixel still image capture with software interpolation
• 1.3-Megapixel sensor with Autofocus in a small form factor webcam
• 3 buttons on the top: HP Instant Video, HP Instant Image Capture and HP Instant Chat button to automatically launch your preferred Instant Messaging program and your webcam controls (Magic-i)
• Certified high-speed USB 2.0: take full advantage of your broadband access and enjoy up to 30 frames per second for smooth and natural body motion.
• Integrated wide angle microphone capture your voice from any position
• Tilt and Pan: easily adjust your webcam to let you show what you want while maintaining a stable connection to your monitor
• Comprehensive software suite:
  • ArcSoft Magic-i -- manages your online chat, keeps all your webcam controls in one application, enhances your video conferencing experience with fun special effects, and save up to 5 user profiles so you are looking good whenever you use your webcam
  • ArcSoft WebCam Companion -- capture, edit and share short videos with family and friends
  • ArcSoft VideoImpression -- create digital home movies and video slideshows
  • HP Photosmart Essential -- edit, retouch and manage photos

Specifications

• 1.3-Megapixel (1280x1024) CMOS sensor with autofocus
• Live video: up to 640 x 480 (VGA) at 30fps, 800 x 600 up to 20fps, 1280 x 1024 up to 7.5 fps
• Still picture: up to 8 Megapixels (3200x2560 pixels) by software interpolation
• Progressive scan 24 bit true color, with auto exposure and white balance
• Effective focal range: 4 inches to 20 feet
• Tilt and Pan: Tilt (60°, up to 30° down and 30° up) / Pan 360°
• Integrated wide angle microphone
• 5X Digital Zoom
• USB 2.0 high-speed certified
• UVC (USB Video Class) driver
• Face-tracking
• Front LED (on/off)
• Cable length: 3.28 feet (1 meter)

Customer Reviews

Affordable, good performance webcam
Good product at a compelling price, small and compact, good if you need to travel with it. The hinge bracket used for placing it on a monitor/ laptop is ok, but it's a bit awkward for laptops and has doesn't secure very well.

I don't recommend installing all the Arcsoft s/w components, as this isn't needed for general operation, and it's horribly irritating and hard to remove; just install what you need to run the webcam with Skype/ video IM, if you are on Windows, this probably means you don't need to do anything.

4 stars - good price, good product, good picture, plug-and-play, not the best mount bracket for laptops.

If I was King of the world
The camera, optically speaking, performs as promised. The picture quality is decent and it is small and light, easy to pack up and carry in my computer bag. I guess my one reason for not giving this a bunch of stars concerns the way the unit mounts on the screen. I wanted something that was versatile and able to fit the depth of several different screens and indeed it does that; however, the mechanism for holding on to the screen - does NOT! It opens and closes to fit but doesn't clamp via springs or any sort of tensioning apparatus so any movement of the usb cable will move the camera and has to be repositioned. Now you probably won't need to do this much unless you're moving things around you work area a lot, i.e. books, papers other peripherals. If I was King of the world, I'd rig some kind of adjustment that would produce more of a clamp effect. I got this product on the cheap using a coupon and no shipping cost so I can't complain too loudly. Just so you know.....

GOOD PRODUCT, GOOD PRICE, EASY TO USE - 5 STARS
This small, easy to use, high quality web cam does everything as claimed and it can be mounted or set on it's stable base anywhere within the cords 5 foot reach. Single pic, video and web-cam/chat buttons on the top of the camera are easy to use and the software installs quickly and easily as well. This all purpose web-cam is great for beginners while having enough sophistication and options for even the most discriminating experienced user. This little web-cam gets 5 stars in my book.