Hello Folks,Just got a web cam, the "Logitech QuickCam Communicate". Long story short it certainly isn't good enough to aid in SMT soldering as I had hoped for. Even the capture of scope screens produces blurred results. Nothing to write home about. Ok, it's only 0.3MPixels versus the 1.2MPixels of the digital camera in the lab. But the difference is so stark that even this doesn't explain it.Is there a hack that can make such a web cam perform? Couldn't find any for this one via Google. Or are CMOS sensors simply too inferior to CCD?Oh well, it was from an overstock sale, under $10. At least I've got a USB microphone out of it :-)-- Regards, Joerg

Joerg if it's anything like the one I pulled apart it has plastic lenses which isn't going to help.-- GibboThis email address isn't real.

Why are WebCams so poor?

Mar 29, 2007 61 Replies

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Michael A. Terrell 19 years ago

This is the camera I used. The photo was taken at 4" from the bottom of the hard drive.

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Terran Melconian 19 years ago

I wouldn't call it excessive, but there is what I think of as about the usual amount for a small digital camera. If you *want* to see it, look at the white screwhole in the top left of the picture; at full resolution, you can see some purple on the left side where there should be black.

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