![]() With the camera turned to my wife sitting next to me on the couch, with no light source near her, the picture was well rendered. In a darkened room with really only the light of the laptop screen illuminating my face, the picture was bright and clean with accurate colors and very little noise. It showed little of the graininess that plagued last year's LifeCams. The LifeCam VX-5000 featured marked improvement, particularly in low-light scenarios. The two LifeCam models I reviewed last year were merely average performers, and both really struggled in low light. The combined effect of the new optics was readily apparent. The lens has a large aperture that lets more light reach the sensor. ![]() According to Microsoft, the pixels are 2.4 times larger than the NX-3000's. What's changed, however, is the size of the pixels on the camera's sensor. Under the hood, the VX-5000 features a standard VGA sensor that captures 640x480 video and still images (it can also snap 1.3-megapixel stills through software interpolation).
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