• Location: QLD, Australia
  • Joined: December 26, 2008

Topic: Logitech's new HD Webcams

I almost wet myself when I saw this news.

Logitech is bringing out four new HD webcams before the end of the year. Here's a quote from the Engadget article.

Engadget wrote:

First let's get the details out of the way. Logitech is announcing four webcams, with the Logitech HD Pro Webcam C910 having the longest title and the best specs. It'll record at 1080p, do video chat at 720p, has stereo microphones and an auto-focusing Carl Zeiss Tessar lens. This cam is set to release worldwide for $99 in August. Next is the more portable-friendly and slightly more affordable $59 C510. This model does without the 1080p recording but still does 720p video chat, and folds up neatly to protect the screen for travelers. Then, there are the C310 and C270, $49 and $39 HD webcams for the budget-minded.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/06/500x_910.jpg

More pictures of the webcams and another article at Gizmodo.

That C910 looks to fantastic... perfectly shaped for brickfilming too. The big question for us brickfilmers however, is will they have manual controls like the current brickfilming king of webcams, the QCP9k?

Discuss!


- EDIT -

The latest verdict I received directly from a Logitech rep says that these cameras will have the same manual settings as the QCP9k.

Last edited by Siobhan (June 13, 2010 (07:20am))

THAC XIV entry here: (Never) Meant To Be
  • Location: In the Englandworld.
  • Joined: April 4, 2010

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

Wow I just hope it takes 720p pictures alot faster than the quickcam 9000.

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Chuppa/Signatures/sig1.png
  • Joined: May 29, 2010

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

Holy crap I almost wet myself also!!!!!
HD Webcams have been just what us Brickfilmers have been dreaming of for a long time!
And it looks sorta like a Cell Phone!

  • Location: QLD, Australia
  • Joined: December 26, 2008

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

I'd take quality over speed any day, Chuppa.

I'm currently doing my best to get more information on these webcams, especially pertaining to things like manual controls. I'll keep you posted.

- EDIT -

This just in, from the editor at Engadget who wrote that article (and has a unit to review). I asked him if it is possible to control everything manually? (focus, white balance, etc) and got the following reply.

Tim Stevens wrote:

Focus you definitely cannot. You can adjust brightness and digitally zoom, but that's about it, really.

Well, !@#$.

I'm going to contact some other people and squeeze what info I can out of them.

- EDIT 2 -

I made a little image expressing my feelings at the latest news.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs618.snc3/32495_1401858140264_1646666908_952992_1263121_n.jpg

Last edited by Siobhan (June 11, 2010 (06:56am))

THAC XIV entry here: (Never) Meant To Be
  • Location: Germany
  • Joined: January 27, 2010

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

Loooo mini/eek oooool.
Spot the smiley.

http://imgur.com/qO642.png
  • Location: In the Englandworld.
  • Joined: April 4, 2010

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

Well no manual, its got fail all over now.

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Chuppa/Signatures/sig1.png
  • Location: QLD, Australia
  • Joined: December 26, 2008

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

Fail indeed. If the camera can automatically focus, automatically adjust white balance, automatically do everything, then the hardware is OBVIOUSLY there. IS IT SO HARD TO ADD MANUAL CONTROLS, LOGITECH???

THAC XIV entry here: (Never) Meant To Be
  • Location: Cary, NC
  • Joined: September 14, 2009

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

mini/frustrated WHY MANUAL CONTROLS?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?! mini/frustrated

http://i.imgur.com/O9sIt89.png
Odysee ~ YouTube ~ Website ~ Twitter

AquaMorph's Website

  • Location: Germany
  • Joined: January 27, 2010

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

Erhm... That´s the point. It doesn´t have manual controls.

http://imgur.com/qO642.png
  • Location: QLD, Australia
  • Joined: December 26, 2008

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

Aquamorph wrote:

mini/frustrated WHY MANUAL CONTROLS?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?! mini/frustrated

The question is, why not?

As just about any brickfilmer knows, manual control over your cameras settings are paramount to animating. Without being able to adjust it as you like and lock those settings, you get random focus, light flicker and all sorts of horrible things that ruin a brickfilm.

It's sucha  horrible shame - these cameras had (have?) so much potential to be the KING of brickfilming cameras.

THAC XIV entry here: (Never) Meant To Be
  • Location: Cary, NC
  • Joined: September 14, 2009

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

Sean wrote:
Aquamorph wrote:

mini/frustrated WHY MANUAL CONTROLS?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?! mini/frustrated

The question is, why not?

As just about any brickfilmer knows, manual control over your cameras settings are paramount to animating. Without being able to adjust it as you like and lock those settings, you get random focus, light flicker and all sorts of horrible things that ruin a brickfilm.

It's sucha  horrible shame - these cameras had (have?) so much potential to be the KING of brickfilming cameras.

I know that I was just complaining why did they have to cut that feature.

http://i.imgur.com/O9sIt89.png
Odysee ~ YouTube ~ Website ~ Twitter

AquaMorph's Website

  • Location: QLD, Australia
  • Joined: December 26, 2008

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

Ah, so you mean "Why no manual controls".

In which case I completely agree.

THAC XIV entry here: (Never) Meant To Be
  • Location: In the Englandworld.
  • Joined: April 4, 2010

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

I thought you said it had everything manual except from focus.

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Chuppa/Signatures/sig1.png
  • Location: QLD, Australia
  • Joined: December 26, 2008

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

Where did I say that, Chuppa?

- edit -

Ah, I see where you got confused. I stuffed up my little comic: it's fixed now.

Last edited by Siobhan (June 11, 2010 (06:57am))

THAC XIV entry here: (Never) Meant To Be
  • Location: Cary, NC
  • Joined: September 14, 2009

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

If it does not have manual focus why bother.

http://i.imgur.com/O9sIt89.png
Odysee ~ YouTube ~ Website ~ Twitter

AquaMorph's Website

  • Location: QLD, Australia
  • Joined: December 26, 2008

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

I am currently calling Logitech HQ (in Canada!) via Skype from Australia to find out this information.

I have been speaking with a customer representative who came back to me with this awesome news: Apparently the webcam DOES indeed have manual controls, accessible via the supplied software, the same as the QCP9k!

THIS IS FANTASTIC.

THAC XIV entry here: (Never) Meant To Be
  • Dog
  • Member
  • Offline
  • Location: Nottingham, UK
  • Joined: January 2, 2010

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

mini/delirium mini/delirium mini/delirium mini/delirium mini/delirium
I've been needing a new camera ever since I found out that mine has manual focus!
Now to get my dad to get reviewers copies mini/devil

Dog

http://i.imgur.com/Vghri.png
I'm back. Possibly.

Dog's Website

  • Location: England
  • Joined: April 29, 2010

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

These look great. I'm having a real problem with my LQCP 9000 right now, I really don't know why, but it looks blury. However these look great, and the balanced shape means they (hopefully) won't give you a slightly tilted picture like the pro 9000. mini/lol
I supose I could fix that though.

http://i.imgur.com/ZaVBq.jpg
Marooned Youtube Luminescence
  • Location: treading water
  • Joined: February 13, 2010

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

Looks like the 9000 comes through again...

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/SpeedyGonZohan/GIMPStuff/SignaturesBiM/match.png
  • Location: QLD, Australia
  • Joined: December 26, 2008

Re: Logitech's new HD Webcams

How do you expect your father to get review units, Dog? Is he a reviewer/editor on a large tech site such as Engadget or Cnet?

I think you may have missed some of the more recent posts in this thread, Speedy. It's been confirmed by a Logitech rep that the HD cameras WILL have manual control, the same as the 9k has. Only the hardware is a heck of a lot better.

THAC XIV entry here: (Never) Meant To Be