Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Creative Labs Webcam For Mac OSX

Creative Labs has had a few Mac compatible webcams in their product line over the past few years - but never marketed them as such. Now they're actually branding and packaging their latest line of cameras with notations of OSX 10.5+ compatibility on the box. So far Live! Cam HD Webcam is performing well in my tests. Good auto white balance adapts well in decent lighting conditions.

Creative Labs Webcam For Mac

720p HD Resolution


For being a 'HD' webcam, its sensor is not ultra-high resolution. In a way that's a good thing cuz at least when capturing above 640x480 VGA it still delivers decent frame rates. (Something that cannot be said of 3MP, 5MP and beyond webcams that perform poorly on anything less than a Mac with really fast Intel dual-core processors.) Tho the image isn't razor-sharp like Logitech's high-end models, it's a decent midrange camera with a good-sounding noise cancelling mic at a bargain price.