Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 WebCam

excellent resolution and clarity. keep in touch with family. this was worth the upgrade from the 4000 model

if your looking for a very good quality of webcam, i highly recommed this webcam its amazing how clear it show. No regret for buying this webcam, its the best.

Originally I bought this to use it with Skype in linux (gentoo 2007.0). It is supported to a minimal extent (by a 3rd party driver, not logitech), and wouldn't work with Skype. The various hoops that had to be jumped though to get the small amount of functionality out of it that I did were certainly not worth it.

I ended up trading it with someone who had a QC Pro 4000. That camera uses the pwc driver, and works just fine (skype, mplayer, whatever). If you are using linux, I would suggest going for a 3000, 4000, or a 9000.

On the upside, this worked fine in windows (XP), so my trading it was no big deal. He didn't even have to change the driver/software from Logitech to make it work. We have used it in skype from windows many times with no problem.

Purchased this for my girlfriend so that we could skype while I was away at school. The camera was great an fit well on top of her 19" flat panel monitor. However with all the technological advances in web cams (eg. the web cam in my mac book) I do find this camera to be a little unnecessarily large... Good product for the price.

Our son lives and works in Costa Rica, so we needed a webcam to help us communicate with him. This device was very easy to install and works flawlessly.

I consider it a very good value for the price. Highly recommended!