Excellent review just the information i was looking for and the best way to demo the camera features was by this video clip. Cheers

Awesome review. I have just started looking for a "first" webcam for my niece and this looks perfect. The sound was great and so was the picture. nice one.

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Excellent review. Can see the video quality and hear about the features. Thanks

Julian,

Thanks for the very helpful review. A question for you.....I need a webcam mainly to record myself playing the guitar and singing, so I can build up an online repertoire and upload to Youtube. Would the separate desktop microphone by Logitech be compatible with this webcam? I realise there is a built-in mike in the webcam, but a microphone nearer to me and possibly of higher quality might be useful. I would be very grateful for your opinion on that or any better suggestion you might have. I have more sophisticated audio recording equipment (Line 6 Toneport) from which I can make CDs, but the audio files it produces will not upload to Youtube.

All the best,

Chris Aylmer

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Thank you very much for your helpful message Julian. I will try out the webcam and see how it goes.

Best wishes,

Chris.

This was very helpful, and many thanks to Julian, im buying !

Julian,
Just to report back on the pro 9000 I bought. The camera is very good. I've done a video review but it's not approved yet. The logitech desktop microphone works OK in duo with the webcam but it's not nearly as good as the built-in microphone in tone or quality...I would not recommend buying it. I guess it might be fine for voice but not singing or playing instruments. Even with the desktop right by my face and 4 to 5 feet away from the webcam, the built-in mike is best! When I use "rightlight" I get problems with too few frames per second(as seen on my video review) so will need to adjust lighting manually. Thanks again for your help.

Chris.

Great review - I'm moving from a "Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks Pro" cam (about 5 years old and it doesn't sit correctly on my LCD as its made for a thin lid of a notebopok - the quality is also only OK for me compared to what I've just seen) - but I travel a lot and the old cam has a great folding action and hard plastic travel case so it never got damaged. http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/480/3386 - how would this cam fare - what does it come with?

Mike