Microsoft LifeCam VX-6000 Webcam (Gray)
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Microsoft LifeCam VX-6000 Webcam (Gray)
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Microsoft LifeCam VX-6000 Webcam (Gray) Price History
Price History for * NEW Microsoft Lifecam VX-6000 Webcam HD Wide Angle Lens 3x Digital Zoom Sealed
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| Current Price | $31.98 | October 29, 2024 |
| Highest Price | $31.98 | October 20, 2024 |
| Lowest Price | $31.98 | October 20, 2024 |
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| $31.98 | October 20, 2024 |
Microsoft LifeCam VX-6000 Webcam (Gray) Description
- Use with Windows Live Messenger to communicate with friends and family as if they were in the room with you
- Delivers 1.3 megapixel video resolution and 5 megapixel photo resolution
- Built-in microphone
- Simply press the Windows Live Call Button and select an Online Contact to start a video conversation
- 71 Degree wide angle lens ensures no one gets left out of the picture
Microsoft LifeCam VX-6000 Webcam (Gray) Specification
Specification: Microsoft LifeCam VX-6000 Webcam (Gray)
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Microsoft LifeCam VX-6000 Webcam (Gray) Reviews (7)
7 reviews for Microsoft LifeCam VX-6000 Webcam (Gray)
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Frank A. Delaney –
I bought the Lifecam 6000 and my girlfriend bought the NX6000 for her notebook. When we’re both in town they work ok, the sound is always a little garbled and the picture quality is so-so. She recently traveled to a major southwest city and our communication became very poor – jerky video and bad sound. Truly unusable. She checked her internet connection speed and that was ok, so maybe it’s the lifecams. Microsoft seems to not support them as well as other products. They seem to treat them as toys for the home as opposed to serious business use, which we expected them to be. They actually have a different advertising agency handling their lifecams from their other business products, which has been very unresponsive on questions I had when I wrote a review of them.
Another gripe I have is that I had sent in the boxtop and my Amazon receipt for the Rebate to a 3rd party company that’s handling the rebates, and they sent me a letter denying my rebate because I hadn’t sent in the boxtop – which I did. Maybe Microsoft is losing too much money on Vista to pay their rebates. I am filing a complaint about this with the Washington State Attorney general’s office.
I could not recommend these to serious business users.
Frank Delaney
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nanniedearest –
I love my little tiny camera. My husband who has never seen his third granddaughter, now visits with her every day. He does not fly and she lives in Oregon. He can read her stories and tell her jokes. It is wonderful!
No problem to set up and it takes up very little space
The picture is good, the sound is excellent, it is easy to call, and it does not cost anything , What a great Christmas present for the whole family.
Allen Tsui –
Wouldn’t bother as the 1.3 MP video facility makes the image for video calls really grainy. Better off spending a bit more on a 2MP video camera.
Gareth Casady –
very nice, although you don’t need these anymore because they are built into laptops and smartphones nowadays. but if you don’t have a laptop or cell phone for some reason, this is a very nice video camera.
NeciFiX –
I’ve had this for an entire summer and use it for a variety of purposes, video conference, having fun with the microphone with friends, talking to people and such and it does its purpose. The resolution is greater than any webcam I’ve ever seen or used and the thing is very durable (I’ve knocked it down at least thirty times, no exaggeration, and my cat has done so at least a dozen times, it falling down, smacking into my computer then falling into the dark) and yet it is still as good as new. The 1.3 megapixel resolution is great, the webcam can look like a real professional camera like one that you’d pay $100-250 for, that is, if you can get the right lighting.
It is sort of picky on lighting, I find that it does work perfectly fine and still look better than all the webcams I’ve seen if it has low light but it is still grainy and such and is sort of annoying, to get the best quality I have to light myself up completely and such and it can be an annoying process but not THAT annoying. It has a 6 feet cord which is useful for mobility and it has zoom, though, albeit, I never use the zoom often it is there if you want/need it. You can easily focus it in on things and close up or far away if focused correctly you can see extremely fine, precise, and great detail. There are a number of things you can adjust on it, too, which makes it a good buy.
All in all, I like Microsoft, good company, great webcam, the current price its at (at the time of this review) is $42, that is a lot more acceptable then the $75 I spent on this thing, it’s not worth that much! A little overpriced, sometimes I wonder if the Logitech Quickcam would be better since I have great experience with Logitech, but, that’s for you to decide!
Pros:
Good quality
Good effects
Great pictures in right lighting
Takes videos and audio, audio can be taken alone without video which is a bonus
Pictures can be taken and enhanced to 5.0 megapixels
Good resolutions
Bad:
Price is a bit too high
Higher resolutions (like the 1.3 megapixel resolution) can be REALLY laggy on the computer, and such anything past 800×600 I find very laggy.
Has low light but requires a lot of light for photos that aren’t grainy at all and actually look like a real high quality photo.
All-in-All, I give the Microsoft Lifecam VX-6000 4 stars out of 5. Choose between Logitech and Microsoft, they’re both great, I don’t think you’ll regret your purchase, I DO recommend the Microsoft Lifecam VX-6000, but, you should be wary of the things I said :).
Herman Minister –
Won’t work with any recent version of Windows 10. Ever. The drivers are unavailable from Microsoft, and the ones from third party sources won’t work. By all accounts this was an excellent little camera, but Microsoft have simply stopped supporting it. If you check the internet the only mention this camera gets is from people desperately trying to find drivers for it.
So don’t buy this unless you live in a Soviet gulag and your Amstrad computer’s running Windows 3.1. Save your money and choose one that works.
This has become a leitmotif of the modern age: a perfectly good, fully-functioning piece of equipment – that should connect to and work with almost any computer – that has been consigned to the scrap heap simply because either (a) coding a W10 driver for it is just tooooo hard, or (b) a corporation wants to sell me another, identical piece of equipment. My money’s on the latter.
James W. Dorton –
The setup is very simple and the picture quality is great, I use it on Windows Live Messenger and it makes it fun to use , just like talking to someone through a window. Very clear and wide angle picture . All controls don’t work though at highest resolution . Picture is still great anyway. Next step down model would probably be just as good and is much cheaper. Microphone is very sensitive and picks up voice really good. I got it for my granddaughter to use so I could see her when I talk to her from 700 miles away and it does a great job.