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Bowdon:
I'm going to be having some hospital appointment sessions that require 12 appointments. Apart from the hospital being hours away from me, I'm nearly fully housebound these days. In conversation when setting up the consultation they said they can have appointments over the internet via skype and I assume a webcam will be needed for this.

I had a webcam many years ago but never really used it much.

So does anyone have any webcam recommendations? It will have to be Win10 compatible.

Weaver:
I had very good results with a Logitech swivelling webcam. Very well-behaved windows drivers were of prime importance to me as without that all else is lost and you can end up knackering your entire machine.

I use Apple Facetime nowadays which is excellent. I believe the NHS has even heard or that, because I have refused to travel 85 miles each way to hospital in Inverness but some consultant keeps pestering me and I think wants to do some kind of session using Facetime perhaps.

j0hn:
I have a Logitech C920 webcam.
Fantastic little webcam for the price.
Is regularly on offer in the £30 region.

Weaver:
I bought two Logitech ones for a customer in fact. One thing though, which is not much of a criticism: on an extremely ancient and very very crappy PC the logitech-supplied software ran the CPU up to 100% sometimes. That could have been a very badly designed bit of app code, polling in an uncontrolled way. It was just during certain activities iirc. The CPUs concerned were out of the stone age so modern machines might have no problem.

Weaver:
Plus sorry to hear that you are nearly housebound. I don't go downstairs anymore but I can walk ok, as far as the bathroom next door with no problem, it is just that being upright makes me feel horrible sometimes.

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