When the face tracking did work, it was useful and fun. The Orbit showed similarly quirky behavior in some dark environments, when it stopped tracking altogether. In a room with overhead lighting and a vaulted ceiling, we found the camera angle inching toward the ceiling until the subject's face dropped out of the picture completely. In situations where the light shines from directly overhead, the face tracking can become confused. The Orbit's automatic tracking capabilities are a mixed blessing. You can capture photos as large as 1,280x 960, though any size larger than 640x480 will be interpolated. The audio sounds good and exhibits none of the sync problems experienced by some Webcams that route the microphone through a sound card. It handles 640x480 video captures reasonably well with only a small drop in the frame rate. It accurately reproduces colors in almost all types of light, though the image is a bit noisy, even in moderately bright rooms. The Orbit does a good job in both well- and poorly lit environments. As with any Webcam, the quality depends largely on the amount of light that's available. As a static Webcam, the Orbit performs like a champ. To fully evaluate this product, you have to separate its innovative face-tracking, pan-and-tilt capabilities from its standard Webcam features.
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