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Creative Live! Cam Optia AF
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November, 2009

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Creative Live Cam Optia AF

By Matthew Elliott

The Creative Live Cam Optia AF is the ideal Webcam if you are looking to shoot objects other than yourself: your talented pet or your back door or your rose garden. For simply recording video of yourself sitting in front of your PC, Logitech's ...

With a Dell Inspiron 1420, the installation process went off without a hitch, but soon after, the Live Cam software stopped recognizing the Live Cam Optia AF and listed the laptop's integrated Web as my only option. Creative calls the Live Cam...

November, 2007

Rating

63

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Creative Live Cam Optia AF

Can do remote monitoring and time-lapse video ; ball-and-socket joint provides flexibility ; camera rotates 270 degrees ; stand works equally well on top of desk or atop a monitor

Image quality struggles in low light ; buggy software ; face tracking feature is useless

If remote video surveillance or time-lapse photography is something you want to do with a Webcam, the Creative Live Cam Optia AF is a good pick. For all others, Logitech has a better (and slightly cheaper) Webcam.

The Creative Live Cam Optia AF looks like a blown-up version of the company's Live Cam Notebook Ultra. With a Dell Inspiron 1420, the installation process went off without a hitch, but soon after, the Live Cam software stopped recognizing the Live...

November, 2007

Rating

63

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cnet.com
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Creative Live! Cam Optia AF

The Creative Live! Cam Optia AF doesn't have the best image quality, but the fun, practical software lets you do more than videoconferencing.

2-megapixel sensor. Lens rotates to let you shoot what's in front of you, not just you. Fun, diverse selection of bundled software

Slow, annoying autofocus. Face-tracking feature barely works. So-so image quality

Though the Live! Cam Optia AF isn't the image-quality champ, it scores with its fun, practical software bundle. It's the one webcam equipped for more than just videoconferencing.

Cam Web portal (Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000, but the versatile design of the Optia AF and its well-rounded software bundle give it a major leg up on the similarly priced Microsoft LifeCam VX-7000. There's nothing inherently exciting about webcams,...

December, 2007

No rating

pcmag.com
US

Creative Live! Cam Optia AF

Smooth, full motion 30fps digital video streams and top quality images with High Speed USB 2.0 throughput Fits easily to almost anything - notebook displays, CRT monitors and flat panel displays...

Cam Doodling Edit and organize your photos easily & create fun photo calendars with Creative Live!

November, 2007

No rating

digitaltrends.com
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Creative Live! Cam Optia AF

and compatibility with most Windows video chat applications.

May, 2007

No rating

ubergizmo.com
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Creative Live Cam Optia AF Review

By Matthew Elliott

Webcam for remote monitoring

Ball-and-socket joint provides flexibility ; camera rotates 270 degrees ; stand works equally well on top of desk or atop a monitor

Image quality struggles in low light ; buggy software ; face tracking feature is useless

If remote video surveillance or time-lapse photography is something you want to do with a webcam, the Creative Live Cam Optia AF is a good pick. For all others, Logitech has a better -- and slightly cheaper -- webcam

Whereas Hercules's previous USB model, the DJ Console Mark II, was quite a plasticky affair designed more for bedroom DJs, the Rmx is housed in a solid metal chassis and really looks and feels like it's ready for life on the road or at least a...

January, 2008

Rating

60

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cnet.co.uk
AU

Creative Live Cam Optia AF Review - Desktops Accessories

By Matthew Elliott

creative live cam optia af review: If remote video surveillance or time-lapse photography is something you want to do with a Webcam, the Creative Live Cam Optia AF is a good pick. For all others, Logitech has a better (and slightly cheaper) Webcam.

Can do remote monitoring and time-lapse video, Ball-and-socket joint provides flexibility, Camera rotates 270 degrees, Stand works equally well on top of desk or atop a monitor

Image quality struggles in low light, Buggy software, Face tracking feature is useless

If remote video surveillance or time-lapse photography is something you want to do with a Webcam, the Creative Live Cam Optia AF is a good pick. For all others, Logitech has a better (and slightly cheaper) Webcam.

The Creative Live Cam Optia AF looks like a blown-up version of the company's Live Cam Notebook Ultra. With a Dell Inspiron 1420, the installation process went off without a hitch, but soon after, the Live Cam software stopped recognising the Live...

November, 2007

Rating

63

cnet.com.au
GB

PC Pro: Product Reviews: Creative Live! Cam Optia AF

By Dave Stevenson

There are two distinct kinds of webcam: basic, functional devices and those such as the Optia AF, which throw in a plethora of extras for those spending lots of time recording themselves in front of a PC. The Optia AF is very adjustable - the...

August, 2007

Rating

67

pcpro.co.uk
GB

Creative Live!Cam Optia AF review

By Insider Staff

If you can put aside Creative's issue with mid-word punctuation, the Creative Live!Cam Optia AF is well worth a look as your

The Creative Live!Cam Optia AF comes into its own as a surveillance webcam. You can twist it 270 degrees to point it at just about anything, and then leave it to take stills at intervals you set, or when motion in its sight sets it off. You can catch ...

The Creative Live!Cam Optia AF may have a 2.0-megapixel squished inside, but that doesn't mean it's as good as Logitech's offerings with the same specs. In comparison, it struggles in low light, but at least with a lamp on your problems are solved. ...

Rating

80

theinsider.pricerunner.co.uk
ES

Creative Live! Cam Optia AF

By javier-penalva

Escondida entre cajas de gadgets tengo yo la última webcam que me compré. Fue por asuntos personales, le di uso durante apenas un mes y luego al rincón del olvido. Lástima. Sin embargo la última que ha presentado Creative, la Live! Cam Optia AF bien ...

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