so today i'm going to be doing another unboxing of a microsoft webcam so this
is a microsoft lifecam hd 5000 it
features sharp video with autofocus as well as true color which they explain a
little bit better on the back now this isn't the first hd webcam from microsoft
but it is a new one so the old one has kind of uh and as far as i can tell they
have pretty similar specs but the older one has more like a barrel shaped uh
webcam shape so it's like well shaped like a barrel and then this one's more
like a little a little brick okay so that's the biggest difference that i can
tell right off the bat here we go they have a little uh
oh you know what i think the one i looked at before was the lifecam cinema
but i'm not 100 sure so it looks like that one does have some benefits that
this one doesn't such as a glass lens aluminum body and clear frame technology
whatever clear frame is so this one is also slightly lower resolution for the
photos it's only four megapixel and it has a flexible bass noise cancelling
microphones 16x9 widescreen autofocus and true color technology so true color
means that it is trying to retain truer
colors as far as i can tell basically it's
taking a dark shot and it's brightening it up a little bit or a bright shot and
darkening it a little bit okay 16x9 widescreen is awesome if you have two
people in the shot as microsoft so kindly points out for us and then one
what is this supposed to be uh that's a cupcake oh they're showing
the focus all right right so it can focus on a cupcake and then it'll it'll smartly
decide what is supposed to be in the focus of the shot so let's get this
thing opened up and uh like i do with all of my camera
unboxings i will actually shoot my next
unboxing with the lifecam hd5000 or
maybe it's not an unboxing i think i'm gonna do some other video but i'll shoot
it with this so you will actually get a preview of what the video quality looks
like for this camera so this box is like incredible look at this it comes apart
in 18 million different pieces okay so why don't we first have a look at the
accessories or other things that come with it here is the instruction quick
start guide one disk two
plug in three put it there or there and
four move it around a bit aim it i'm guessing is what they're
trying to say next we have a lifecam 3.0 software cd or dvd i can't
tell it's probably a cd and then after that we have a microsoft product guide
which tells us all of the safety and ergonomics considerations
uh webcam with magnetic and adhesive mounting and
you know basically they're covering their butts legally
make sure that you know everything you need to know about the product okay so
then you just slide the webcam out this way and then look at that look at this box
this box is incredible you know what i should just do the focus of this unboxing should be on
the box not the webcam look at this thing it has like four different layers
and it like folds in this way and then out that
way and it has like a look oh there i
finally figured out how it comes apart so the box is actually like this shape
look at that i wouldn't be able to put this back together i'm not going to be
able to put this back together
anyway here's the webcam so we'll just take the little plastic clam shell apart
here and slide you know i had a lot of trouble with this on the last one it's a
good thing i've seen this before so you just take the little clamshell pieces off there
and then we get down to the webcam itself so you can see it's uh it swivels
as they pointed out on the on the box and then it doesn't actually
tilt up and down but what you can do is you can adjust this flexible base i
really like this mounting system because it means that you can just kind of sit
it like this point it up at you or you can kind of move it around a little bit
or you could put it like this if you felt like it and then it would sort of
point this way or you could you could take oh no then it would be upside down
okay don't do that but it also has a little notch on the front so that you
can easily sit it on top of almost any lcd monitor so it's it's wide enough
that you can take even a wide lcd monitor like the cameraman's and just
mount it up on the top of the screen like that point it down at yourself and it's quite secure up there it's not
going to just randomly come down so i think that pretty much covers
everything i wanted to say about the lifecam hd 5000 it's hd and also there's
appears to be like a video call button on the top and there's the microphone
hole thank you for checking out my unboxing
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