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This hunk of junk has just earned its place as THE WORST WEB CAM I’VE EVER USED! Its a complete piece of crap and not worth a single penny. I really wish you could rate something zero stars.

CONS:
– When plugged in it caused other USB devices that normally work flawlessly to either completely fail or to disconnect/reconnect every few minutes.
– Does not support white balance. The colors are terrible, everything in the image was very orange.
– Night vision doesn’t seem to work at all. In low light image is nearly black.
– There is an in-line adjustment knob on the USB cable. Its how you adjust brightness, how incredibly manual and inconvenient of them. Even the super cheapo web cams have auto-exposure that works.
– The instructions are a single page and say nothing useful. The back of the page is blank, so they had space to say things they just didn’t.
– I downloaded the “manual” from their web site. After un-RARing it was a single 1MB JPG image. A photo of another single 8.5×11 sheet, but different than the one that came with the camera! This one talked about drivers.
– There are no drivers that come with the device, but there are drivers on the iMicro web site. There is no information available anywhere that says what the driver does, what operating systems its for, etc. Given that their hardware won’t play nice and conflicts with other hardware, I fully expected the driver to corrupt my system or do something equally horrible to other software. Needless to say, I was not willing to install it and take a risk.
– I’m only 90% – 95% certain about this, but I believe its only 640×480 and not the 1.3 mega pixel they claim. I’d have to plug it back in to check and its not worth the hassle of my other devices freaking out again.

PROS:
– It looks pretty and has a handy clip. It really does look nice, probably the best looking web cam I’ve used. Too bad EVERYTHING else about this hunk of garbage is worthless.

AMAZON WINS:
I put in for a return since this thing is useless. Amazon granted my refund without my even having to ship it back! Way to go Amazon. This makes me particularly happy since I had a very, very strong urge to literally smash this thing it frustrated me so much. But I’m responsible, so I wanted to ship it back both to get my money and to make a point that I won’t pay for useless junk. Now I get to do both. Win. 🙂

camera looks cool but I cant get a good picture with it. Seems to be very light sensitive. Picture always looks washed out. I am using it with windows 7 ultimate. would have to say pay a little more and get a better camera.

‘the way the ad was written it led you to believe it worked with the
Samsung Tablet, which it does not.

The picture is blurry
It has no software
If it is meant to be used with the tablet. that hardware ins necessary
ugly color
Hard to use