Microsoft Lifecam HD-5000 720p HD Webcam Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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969 words · ~4 min read
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so today i'm going to be doing another unboxing of a microsoft webcam so this
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is a microsoft lifecam hd 5000 it
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features sharp video with autofocus as well as true color which they explain a
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little bit better on the back now this isn't the first hd webcam from microsoft
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but it is a new one so the old one has kind of uh and as far as i can tell they
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have pretty similar specs but the older one has more like a barrel shaped uh
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webcam shape so it's like well shaped like a barrel and then this one's more
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like a little a little brick okay so that's the biggest difference that i can
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tell right off the bat here we go they have a little uh
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oh you know what i think the one i looked at before was the lifecam cinema
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but i'm not 100 sure so it looks like that one does have some benefits that
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this one doesn't such as a glass lens aluminum body and clear frame technology
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whatever clear frame is so this one is also slightly lower resolution for the
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photos it's only four megapixel and it has a flexible bass noise cancelling
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microphones 16x9 widescreen autofocus and true color technology so true color
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means that it is trying to retain truer
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colors as far as i can tell basically it's
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taking a dark shot and it's brightening it up a little bit or a bright shot and
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darkening it a little bit okay 16x9 widescreen is awesome if you have two
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people in the shot as microsoft so kindly points out for us and then one
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what is this supposed to be uh that's a cupcake oh they're showing
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the focus all right right so it can focus on a cupcake and then it'll it'll smartly
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decide what is supposed to be in the focus of the shot so let's get this
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thing opened up and uh like i do with all of my camera
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unboxings i will actually shoot my next
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unboxing with the lifecam hd5000 or
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maybe it's not an unboxing i think i'm gonna do some other video but i'll shoot
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it with this so you will actually get a preview of what the video quality looks
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like for this camera so this box is like incredible look at this it comes apart
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in 18 million different pieces okay so why don't we first have a look at the
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accessories or other things that come with it here is the instruction quick
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start guide one disk two
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plug in three put it there or there and
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four move it around a bit aim it i'm guessing is what they're
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trying to say next we have a lifecam 3.0 software cd or dvd i can't
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tell it's probably a cd and then after that we have a microsoft product guide
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which tells us all of the safety and ergonomics considerations
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uh webcam with magnetic and adhesive mounting and
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you know basically they're covering their butts legally
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make sure that you know everything you need to know about the product okay so
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then you just slide the webcam out this way and then look at that look at this box
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this box is incredible you know what i should just do the focus of this unboxing should be on
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the box not the webcam look at this thing it has like four different layers
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and it like folds in this way and then out that
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way and it has like a look oh there i
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finally figured out how it comes apart so the box is actually like this shape
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look at that i wouldn't be able to put this back together i'm not going to be
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able to put this back together
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anyway here's the webcam so we'll just take the little plastic clam shell apart
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here and slide you know i had a lot of trouble with this on the last one it's a
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good thing i've seen this before so you just take the little clamshell pieces off there
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and then we get down to the webcam itself so you can see it's uh it swivels
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as they pointed out on the on the box and then it doesn't actually
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tilt up and down but what you can do is you can adjust this flexible base i
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really like this mounting system because it means that you can just kind of sit
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it like this point it up at you or you can kind of move it around a little bit
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or you could put it like this if you felt like it and then it would sort of
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point this way or you could you could take oh no then it would be upside down
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okay don't do that but it also has a little notch on the front so that you
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can easily sit it on top of almost any lcd monitor so it's it's wide enough
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that you can take even a wide lcd monitor like the cameraman's and just
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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
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going to just randomly come down so i think that pretty much covers
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everything i wanted to say about the lifecam hd 5000 it's hd and also there's
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appears to be like a video call button on the top and there's the microphone
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hole thank you for checking out my unboxing
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usb cable
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you