Unhappy with Logitech Quickcam/Clicksmart Software.

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4 total messages Started by 7h3_Fr13nd1y_P0rn06raph3r Fri, 03 Oct 2003 20:36

Author: 7h3_Fr13nd1y_P0rn06raph3r
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 20:36

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I recently bought a Clicksmart 420, and am unhappy with the software bundled
with it for the following reasons:

1)  No auto-adjustment for lighting.  My old Quickcam Pro would auto-adjust
the levels to compensate for low lighting, and did it very well.  Present
software only allows manual adjustment.

3)  Lack of ability to specify a folder to save captured pictures to.
Instead, it saves it to an internal "Gallery".

Ideally, I'd like to do some automated captures over a set internal using my 
webcam, and save them to a specific folder.  I'd like the lighting-adjustment 
feature to compensate for variable lighting in the room.

Unfortunately, the limitations of the software are not conducive to this.

In general, I find the software very constraining - It allows automatic
upload to a website, but only does this to a partner-website of logitech,
and allows no customization.  If you want to upload to your *own* server,
your SOL.

It is disappointing, as earlier versions of the logitech software did
support these features, but appear to have been dropped.  This same software
is bundled with all logitech models, so changing model wouldn't help.

Is there any free software out there that will do what I want?



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Re: Unhappy with Logitech Quickcam/Clicksmart Software.

Author: 7h3_Fr13nd1y_P0rn06raph3r
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 21:35

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In alt.comp.periphs.webcam 7h3_Fr13nd1y_P0rn06raph3r@salmahayeksknockers.edu wrote:

> 1)  No auto-adjustment for lighting.  My old Quickcam Pro would auto-adjust
> the levels to compensate for low lighting, and did it very well.  Present
> software only allows manual adjustment.

Actually, I retract this statement.  The camera does adjust for lighting,
but it doesn't deal with low lighting very well at all.


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Re: Unhappy with Logitech Quickcam/Clicksmart Software.

Author: Rockboy
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 22:52

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7h3_Fr13nd1y_P0rn06raph3r@salmahayeksknockers.edu wrote:

> In alt.comp.periphs.webcam 7h3_Fr13nd1y_P0rn06raph3r@salmahayeksknockers.edu wrote:
> 
> 
>>1)  No auto-adjustment for lighting.  My old Quickcam Pro would auto-adjust
>>the levels to compensate for low lighting, and did it very well.  Present
>>software only allows manual adjustment.
> 
> 
> Actually, I retract this statement.  The camera does adjust for lighting,
> but it doesn't deal with low lighting very well at all.

And I'm sure this is necessary for purely legal reasons...

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Re: Unhappy with Logitech Quickcam/Clicksmart Software.

Author: me63401
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 14:08

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>I recently bought a Clicksmart 420, and am unhappy with the software bundled
>with it for the following reasons:

I used to own one of those and was very unhappy with
the camera itself.   Seems like the camera took
terrible quality pics!

I finally got rid of it

John

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