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Liquid Digital Solutions Agent V5

Review Date: 02-SEP-2009

RRP: $119.95

With its high quality picture and recording capabilities, it’s hard to not consider the Agent V5 as a viable webcam option — just make sure you have enough room for it on your desktop.

Review Date: 15-DEC-2008

Microsoft LifeCam Show

RRP: $179.95

The Microsoft Lifecam Show is a solid webcam offering let down by its exorbitant price tag. With the exception of its inferior stand, the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 will do everything just as well for a more reasonable price.

Microsoft LifeCam VX-5500

Review Date: 24-NOV-2008

RRP: $59.95

The VX-5500 is a basic little webcam that offers decent sound and image quality. It’s not the most versatile webcam on the market, but it gets the job done for a semi-reasonable price. Of course, the same thing can be said of every other Microsoft model. A less than essential purchase.

Review Date: 23-JUL-2008

Logitech Quickcam E 3500

RRP: $59.95

The Quickcam E 3500 doesn't do anything terribly wrong, but there's nothing to make it stand out from the crowd either. If you're after a functional webcam with minimal bells-and-whistles, you could probably do worse.

Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000

Review Date: 02-JUL-2008

RRP: $149.95

The Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 is a great webcam with some very amusing and entertaining features.

Microsoft Lifecam NX-3000

Review Date: 11-JAN-2008

RRP: $59.95

The Lifecam NX-3000 performs its primary function -- and little else -- to middling effect. If your notebook is already equipped with an inbuilt camera there's very little reason to consider this purchase.

Microsoft LifeCam VX-7000

Review Date: 19-DEC-2007

RRP: $149.95

The Lifecam VX-7000 offers a reasonable performance in most areas, but $150 is a pretty big ask for a webcam; particularly when some of its premium features don't work properly. Only consider buying if you're a Windows Live fan.

Microsoft LifeCam VX-6000

Review Date: 10-OCT-2007

RRP: $149.00

The Microsoft LifeCam VX-6000 is a mid-range webcam that suffers from the same pitfalls as most mid-range cameras on the market. When the lighting is anything but optimal, the image quality suffers greatly.

Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks

Review Date: 04-OCT-2007

RRP: $149.00

The Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks is an excellent webcam which can produce high quality images in well lit environments. Unfortunately, like most webcams, its image quality suffers when the lighting is not optimal.

Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000

Review Date: 02-MAY-2007

RRP: $179.95

The Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000 is a high quality product that most users will be very satisfied with.

Linksys WVC54GC Wireless Webcam

Review Date: 10-APR-2007

RRP: $229.95

The WVC54GC doesn't work well in poor lighting and the video image is only slightly better than most YouTube material. However, it's relatively cheap and has a reasonable array of security features.

Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision

Review Date: 17-JAN-2007

RRP: $249.95

The Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision is an excellent webcam that produces high quality images with only a few minor problems.

Creative Labs Live! Cam Video IM Pro

Review Date: 13-DEC-2006

RRP: $89.95

A great webcam that offers reasonable image quality and all the features you'd expect out of such a device.

Creative Labs Live! Cam Vista IM

Review Date: 22-NOV-2006

RRP: $45.95

A well priced and well performing, yet basic, webcam.

Review Date: 04-OCT-2006

MSI StarCam Mini

RRP: $36.00

An easy to use and well priced webcam complete with some useful extras