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Purchased June 4, 2008, $19.99
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This camera was made in China exclusively for Radio Shack, so don't expect to find it in you neighborhood computer store.
For the price this is a suprisingly good camera. Far better than the other brands of the same price range. I was surprised that the cheapest of the 3 current Radio Shack (Gigaware) cameras was by far the best. I was disappointed in the other two.
I saw several people review this camera saying it worked on Vista without installing drivers. Not so. When I plugged it in to my Vista machine it asked for the drivers and would not work without them. Since I had just received my new notebook with Vista, I did not want to install the drivers it just for this test.
While the camera has a 640x480 sensor, I found the quality a bit lacking at that resolution. The 320x240 resolution produced a good image in bright light though.
For those who need an inexpensive camera, don't like to shop online and don't have a computer store nearby then this would be a good buy.
