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[Scrin]

Hi !

I'm searching for a CCD camera for the mobile robot I plan to build.

I read that PRO 4000 gives good performance on this kind of application, but I cannot find this camera model anymode ... perhaps Logitech discontinued its production.

However I want to consider PRO 5000. Although I read a lot of articles saying that it uses a CCD sensor, on some on-line shops I found that the sensor is actually CMOS. They also have a smaller price. See for instance, http://www.shopix.ro/Camere-Web-Logitech-QuickCam-Pro-5000_p_31580.html (I know it's in Romanian but you could understand the type of sensor is CMOS).

My questions are:

- Is Pro 4000 still available on the market ? 

- are there actually two versions of PRO 5000 ? 

Kind regards,

Ionut. 

[KachiWachi Distinguished Logi Legend]

Welcome to the Logitech Community Webcam Forum Scrin!


1) You *might* be able to find a used QuickCam® Pro 4000 on the secondary market.

2) There are two versions of the QuickCam® Pro 5000. To the best of my knowledge, both versions contain a CMOS image sensor.



Thanks.

[Scrin]

Thanks for your answer.

This is interesting, because if I do a search on Google, everyone states that Pro5000 has a CCD sensor. Also, considering 5000 is kind of 4000's successor, why would it have a lower quality type of sensor ?

[pedroc]

Scrin,

Unfortunately, the QuickCam Pro 4000 was discontinued long time ago. As far the QuickCam Pro5000 neither one of the two version used CCD sensors, they both use CMOS sensors.

Thanks,

-Pedro

Message Edited by pedroc on 06-12-2009 12:10 PM