Plustek Opticam M1

The special thing about this stylish Web camera is that it gives you three axes to work with. That means you can move and control its lens without moving the camera to capture anything on your left or right. It can cover 150º horizontal view (lens pans 100º) and a 110º vertical view (lens tilts 55º). The driver CD includes ProtoSnap software to capture images, Cockpit for pan and tilt and Focus for control of the camera, Cockpit NetMeeting and MSN messenger. You can control the webcam remotely, if Cockpit is installed on a remote system. Its built-in microphone is quite sensitive and can record pretty much every sound around it.

Micro-shooting capability is another feature where the focus can be adjusted to take pictures from as close as 15 mm. It uses Advance color CMOS image sensor. It can transmit videos at a speed of 30 fps. Stills can be captured and saved as 640 x 480 BMP files using

ProtoSnap. The quality of its low resolution is not very good, but high resolution images are good. The camera auto-adjusts image quality and compensates for bright and poor light conditions. 

The camera can work easily with IMs such as Yahoo, MSN and ICQ. It also has Opticam FX software for Web and mobile monitoring. 

The Bottom Line: Go for it so if you are looking for a webcam with some new features.

Sukhsagar Prajapati