Hercules Dualpix Exchange

83% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

80% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Records videos + 2MP photos ; Works out of the box with both XP and Vista ; Very user friendly Software ; Great Looks and excellent build quality ; Built in Microphone

Doesn't record smooth videos at advertised resolution ; Zoom could be better

I have personally never had any experience with Hercules products before, since this being my first product, my experience was nothing but overwhelming aside from from the fact it wasn't able to record smooth videos at advertised resolution, which in...

Cheap, does what it sets out to do

Software limited, no wide-angle lens, quality not great

The Hercules Dualpix Exchange offers enough for the webcam user on a budget if you aren't looking for a package that offers anything more than just that.

Webcam works ok once you manage to get it set up. Driver decent for a cheap webcam, includes zoom

Drivers did not load by clicking setup.exe on the CD, but I was able to get them from the mfrs website. There was no manual on the CD nor downloadable from the website. There is a quick start guide, but nowhere does it tell you that the webcam is...

The camera is attractive-looking and inexpensive

I'm not sure how this camera performs under Windows, but in Ubuntu and Mac OS X, this UVC-spec camera performs abysmally. I recently moved my main workstation from my 13" MacBook Pro to a Linux desktop (tried Ubuntu and Debian), so I needed a webcam to...

Gets the job done

Resolution lower than preferred. No special features of any sort. But you get what you pay for

Affordable ; Nice Resolution ; Glass Lens

High res is interpolated, but still its not bad

cheap ; 640x480 quality isn't too bad

1280 x 960 is AWFUL and a bad marketing ploy

For the price I have not found a camera with a cleaner and clearer image. With all the drivers installed, and using the camera through Skype the lag seems at most a second or so behind, this makes webcam visits over the interwebs quite tolerable

The griping mechanism of the camera is not terribly secure and falls easily off the monitor

Small and Inexpensive

None

Good price - on sale, easy setup, intuitive features. No dead pixels (like the webcam this one is replacing). You can turn off the bright blue LED!

I'll second the yellow tint from a previous reviewer. Using anything other than the standard resolution for pictures, you'll find an EXTREMELY grainy photo.