A 1080p webcam sounds a little ridiculous doesn't it. But of course, webcams aren't just for video calls, they're for recording your thoughts to YouTube, presenting a video podcast or lip-syncing to Carly Rae Jepsen.

Beautiful picture quality; stylish and compact; great sound

Somewhat expensive; autofocus is dreadful; plugging into USB hub caused us picture problems

Microsoft's LifeCam Studio looks like a CCTV camera from a dystopian nightmare – forget the eye of Sauron, this feels like the eye of Microsoft, and it's pretty terrifying. Perched on top of our monitor, we were frightened to use our iPads and iPhones while in its gaze, lest a warning light went off...

The common-or-garden webcam has fallen into the same bracket as keyboards and mice for most PC users: as long as it works, the cheapest one will do. That makes Microsoft's ￡47 inc VAT LifeCam Studio quite the difficult sell.

I was very impressed with the studio camera which has now replaced my Microsoft Lifecam cinema HD. Compared to the Cinema the lower resolution look clearer and brighter. At 720p the picture is much brighter than the Cinema and the fact that it does stream using Nefsis at 1080p is amazing.

Excellent video qualit; y; Tripod Threading; Lens Cover; Brushed Aluminum Design

May degrade system performance, high resolution quality, Special Software Required for 1080p, Significant Hardware, software necessary for 1080p, One Microphone vs; Logitech's Two, Logitech uses Carl Zeiss Lens, Not as much software include as Logitech, Only Available at Bestbuy.com Currently,...

This is a great offering from Microsoft with a number of outstanding features which land it a place on our list. It features an auto-focus, glass element lens along with Microsoft TrueColor and ClearFrame technologies to generate truer color images in virtually all lighting conditions and smoother...

Tell me, what "studio" wants their camera deciding of its own accord to re-focus this often while shooting Sometimes, simply adjusting myself in my seat can result in it going in and out of focus for seconds Thanks for the patch of unprofessional, distracting footage in the middle of my recording.

the cam is well worth the money spent cant complain at all one of the best webcams i have ever owned i dont see why anyone would have a complaint about this cam if they even to it keeps up no lag in the cam at all but i blam the pc for that lol but i will say the focuse is kinda slow but who care

Bought one for my wife to be able to communicate with our kids who are abroad; liked it so much I replaced my old webcam with it. Bought two for work to use in conference rooms for Skype-like video calls all over the US; great wide lens; superb audio pick up regardless of how close/far a person in...

The auto-lighting works amazing. Even when your room barely has any light, the camera captures a very clear picture! the audio is also ridiculously good at catching even the softest sound!