SIIG MobileCam Light Pro Web Cam

Pros: its cheap and small
Cons: Everything

I’ve always wanted a web cam but I never knew which one was good. For one reason or another, I’m alw ...

Pros: Great size and features...
Cons: No camera lighting...

This camera is fairly small and has a fairly decent picture considering the size of the unit without the flex-arm. Even with the flex-arm it can fit nicely in a generous pocket. Manual focus by turning the lens is available, but out of the box, my unit ...

Pros: extremely portable, inexpensive, cute, keyboard light, durable, good framerate
Cons: no MacOS drivers (9 or X), driver not "blessed" by MS, grainy image at times

Mine cost $10 after rebate March of 2003. I'm using Win XP Pro and the thing works like a charm. It even plays nice with WIA (Windows Image Acquisition). It can take VGA quality images (though a little grainy at times) but hey, it's inexpensive. The design looks cool and I often get a lot of looky-loos when in public with my laptop. The one shortcoming that disappoints me is that it won't work with the Windows XP TimerShot PowerToy. I assume this is because the driver is not "blessed" by MS. TimerShot will take snapshots at intervals and upload them to your network location of choice. However I have found other freeware WebCam apps that do the same.