Facevsion FV Touchcam E1

renders in hardware -very- efficiently. this alone makes this camera worth the price. framerate stays constant and does not depend on your other hardware almost at all. beautiful picture ; higher-than-spec framerate during local video recording...

gets hot, so i'm afraid to stress it. it's probably fine ; no true clamp for mounting included; only an adjustable arm on the back + a smallish plastic extension on the front-bottom to simulate a clamp. however, it does sit fairly stably on top of my...

Built-in microphones work well, even from 15 ft

Video is poor, unless you are right in front of the camera. We were hoping this camera would improve the video quality for Skype conference calls. We found that our old Logitech webcam was better

Ease of setup in Windows. Excellent picture quality. Low bandwidth usage. Excellent microphone. Auto focus. HD via enclosed software and gmail account. Video and audio done in cam hardware

Tougher setup in Linux: read your distro's forums for workaround until distro kernels integrate the needed library. No HD until your video chat provider makes it available