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7x Optical Zoom Webcam

Thursday 8 February 2007 @ 10:48 am

Have a webcam? What other purpose you use your webcam for other than having video chat or video conferencing with friends/family? I don’t know about you, but I do use my webcam as a surveillance camera. My webcam is a cheap one (costs about RM25/US$7) and it is able to zoom digitally for about 5x only. As you might have known, the picture quality is not good using digital zoom.

This 7x optical zoom webcam is definitely a perfect webcam to act as a cheap solution for surveillance, while you can zoom more without compromising the picture quality. In fact, this webcam is just like normal CMOS camera of 1.3-millon pixels. However, it has an edge over other webcams as it has a special telephoto lens to get fixed onto it in order to leverage the optical zoom capability!

The size of DC-NCD130 is considered small as it is only 33mm x 146mm x 37mm, at the weight of 160gm. It has the highest resolution at 1280Ã—1024, with 15 frames per second. Anyway, let’s take a look at the zooming quality :-

While it’s not been used for surveillance, face-tracking feature can be activated and it will act as a video chat camera then.

Of course this awesome webcam does come with a price. It is sold at 9,800 yen (about US$81) with 6 months warranty and a tripod is included too. It’s compatible to Windows 2000/XP with minimum CPU 1GHz, RAM 256MB and harddisk space of 200MB.

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4 Responses to '7x Optical Zoom Webcam'

Taiko - February 9th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Yesterday, we tried video conferencing here in Pasir Gudang connecting to Taicang, China. We use the Aethra X5 vc and it’s like live television broadcast. Everybody’s feeling upbeat about it in the company.

So good, it makes me wanna have one for my home. But that one costs RM23,000! So, I’m planning to get a small webcam to try out. This article gives me an idea – optical zoom-enabled webcam.

Great!
Taiko - February 9th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Yesterday, we tried video conferencing here in Pasir Gudang connecting to Taicang, China. We use the Aethra X5 vc and it’s like live television broadcast. Everybody’s feeling upbeat about it in the company.

So good, it makes me wanna have one for my home. But that one costs RM23,000! So, I’m planning to get a small webcam to try out. This article gives me an idea – optical zoom-enabled webcam.

Great!
USB Webcam - April 28th, 2011 at 6:54 am
The appearance like long-barreled microscope.
Gaptek Update - September 21st, 2011 at 10:54 pm
it’s looks like a telescope for me.