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Kodak DVC325 Digital Internet Camera

Kodak DVC325 Digital Internet Camera

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Unlikely top performer
Review: Even though you might not expect Kodak to be a leader in the webcam market, you'll change you mind once you plug in the DVC325. The 640x480 color CCD sensor provides excellent video in all your webcam apps...this is different technology than most webcams that use a color CMOS sensor. try it, you'll like it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Maxillo
Review: Excellent video quality at a reasonable price. Highly recommended

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Makes a great webcam!
Review: For the money, the DVC325 is a good, low cost digital video camera. Its single focusing knob permits precision focusing, and like Kodak's extensive line of digital still cameras, the picture quality is superb. In low light conditions, the camera does fairly well, although the colors sometimes shift to red. I have found that turning on a light or momentarily blocking the lens with my hand (turning the image black) allows the image to shift back to normal. This anomaly occurs only rarely, otherwise even in low light the images are very good. I've used the camera to broadcast all sorts of challenging images for a camera, including: a beautiful sunset, a candle flickering at a table, a fire roaring in the fireplace, Christmas lights and even my husband and I working at our computers in a dark room.

I use the DVC325 primarily for fun, as a webcam my friends and family have access to. The camera works extremely well with the standard webcam software such as Webcam32. Although I often mount the camera on an inexpensive tripod, the camera's detachable foot is weighted and very stable so it can be used while perched on a shelf or other stable surface.

For more practical applications, you can use your DVC325 for videoconferencing with business associates or family living out-of-state using Microsoft Netmeeting or any other popular streaming video software.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Be careful of hardware conflict
Review: I have bought this product 6 months back. But I found it really difficult to install it on my PC. Picture freezes after 5 minutes. That's it! I talked to customer support many times. They asked me to talk to my PC company to resolve the hardware conflict. I need to change some card or something which I don't want to do. Picture quality is really great!.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Does not work with Windows XP
Review: I read countless web sites describing how to install this camera on Windows XP and followed every one of them. Even though XP recognizes that there is a device there, it does not work. You get a blank screen. Kodak blames the motherboard. The motherboard company blames Kodak. When I plug it into a Win2000 box, presto, perfectly working camera. I have read other reviews that say they got it to work with XP, but many more that had problems. If you run Windows XP, you are taking a gamble buying this camera.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good cam, with a few annoyances
Review: I should state right off the bat that this is my first webcam, so I don't have anything else to compare it to. I bought it after reading good reviews and it seems to be accepted that this is a very good camera for the money.

That said, I've been very frustrated in using it as it often shifts back and forth between a correct exposure, and an intensely red picture, as if everything was glowing reddish orange. This looks horrid and isn't acceptible.
I've messed with the settings and found that lowering the saturation seems to do the trick. I tried it under a florescent light for the first time tonight and that seemed to work fine. Perhaps it's just incandescent light that causes the problem.

Another very frustrating aspect, especially if you're on a webcam site, is that focusing is very difficult. You must delicately turn a wheel on the cam itself and then wait to see the picture, adjust, wait, adjust, etc. It takes quite a lot of time to get the hang of it.
Adding to the frustration is the fact that every time you move the camera to a different angle or position, you have to go through the same process to try to bring it into focus.

As far as still images go, I think they're very good quality for this level of cam. Beware of trying to take any sort of hand held picture however, as the only way to trip the shutter is to either click a button on your mouse to click a buttton on the screen, or to push the shutter button on the cam itself.

Needless to say, this is VERY difficult to press the button, maintain your focus and aim.
But if it's sitting on something or tripod mounted, the quality is very good.

It seems well made, and the software is relatively simple, though the controls and adjustments are a bit shaky.

The above are the only negatives I've found, and otherwise it is a fine camera. When you consider it's price, it makes it an even better bet if you're not up for throwing a large chunk of money at a web cam.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Kodak DVC325 - Great Color quality, but lack movements
Review: The Kodak DVC325 camera captures great color among other cameras. Probably the far best in colors, because it produce great vibrant color (see link for image quality comparison: .... The only problem I have with this camera is the lack of mobility from left-to-right. It only tilt up and down of a tilt range of up to 75 degrees. See Kodak's site for more info: ....

I still rank it 4 stars, because of the high quality of the images captured.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not XP compatible
Review: This camera worked very nicely for me for 3 years using Windows 98, but it seems to be completly incompatible with windows XP. Consider yourself warned.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not XP compatible
Review: This camera worked very nicely for me for 3 years using Windows 98, but it seems to be completly incompatible with windows XP. Consider yourself warned.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One [great] little camera
Review: This is absolutely the baddest little camera to hit the market in a long time. My intel that cost about the same amount of money can't touch this little thing. My snap shots are unbelievable and the visual quality of my internet meetings are about three times what the intel is. I also have a logitec that couldn't see the broad side of a barn on a clear night with a million candle spot light. ...


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