There are two tabs at the top of the screen-Home and Advanced, and you can only adjust light settings, not the microphone. The information icon revealed this information about my camera: I tested with mid-morning winter sunlight coming through my home office window-my office faces west, so there was no direct light there was also reflected light from my two monitors, plus the two monitors on my right that I use for my main client’s laptop, and a ‘cool white’ LED light in the ceiling directly above my keyboard). I believe the camera auto adjusts to this. (NOTE: Your default settings may vary, depending on the light source, room lighting, etc. I’ve documented below what the default settings were for my camera. There’s no Help file at all, so I winged it with the settings. Logitech Camera Settings software (Build 2.10.4.0)Īfter installing the software, I opened it. Charms bar, Microsoft SkyDrive, Metro apps). It talked about features in the Windows Camera app that no longer seem to exist, and referred to all sorts of things that just don’t apply to Windows 10 (e.g. I only read the Windows 8 information, but this information was so out of date it was mostly useless for Windows 10. That means only 5 pages to read, some of which I’d already read from the sheet in the box. So there’s only 8 pages to read, but in reality it’s fewer than that: 2 pages of generic setup (as per the illustrated sheet in the box), 3 pages for Windows 8 (nothing for Windows 10, so while the webcam may be new, these instructions haven’t been updated), and 3 pages for Windows 7 and Vista. However, when I checked the table of contents, only pages 3 to 11 were in English, with the rest for 17 other languages. I thought the manual would have more after all, the PDF had 168 pages. The box has a single page illustrated ‘getting started’ sheet that shows you where to plug stuff. is dated 2020 (see below), the Getting Started manual only has instructions for Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 (Windows 8 came out in 2012!). Seriously, don’t bother! Although my camera’s model/firmware etc. You may find you don’t need either if the camera works fine for you. You can get the Logitech Camera Settings software for the C270 from here: –Downloads-HD-Webcam-C270, and the Getting Started manual from here. from my Windows 10 computer.Īlthough the webcam worked perfectly well out of the box and without any instructions, I’ve now downloaded the user manual and software for it, installed the software, and fiddled with the software’s settings. In a previous post ( ), I mentioned that I purchased a Logitech C270 webcam for doing webinars, presentations (both on Zoom), video calls (Skype) etc.

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