As a webcam, the camera supports image capture from 160-200 to 640x480.I used several video and Webcam software packages with the camera. The included VideoWorks package, recognized the camera, and I was able to record motion video from it albeit with somewhat poor frame rates(10-15fps as a guestimate). 

Arrgh, who is that! ;)

I also utilized a free webcam broadcast package available at WebCamNow which consists of a software package called WebCamNow, which allows you to put up a browseable web page with your video broadcasting from it. In this type of application, framerate is restricted anyway, due to the software, and bandwidth available. As is often the case with broadcast webcam tools, such as Netmeeting, CuSeeMe, ect..

Manually adjusting the image capture size and the capture fps, had no effect on the perceived framerate of the camera in webcam mode. As is the case above in comparison to the Creative Webcam Go/Co+, this camera is more geared towards being a digital camera, than it is a Web camera. Although overall image quality seems better than the Creative products, the Creative cameras have much faster framerate as webcams. I even downloaded and installed an update of the cameras capture drivers, to no effect. The framerate of the camera seems to simply be limited by it's design focus, and by it's CCD.

Another limitation, again due to it's design focus as a digital camera, is it does not have the kind of positioning features many webcameras do. You can see from the pictures of the camera, that is doesn't have the capability to pan or tilt. You could put on a little mini tripod (seen these for just a few bucks in camera shops, with little flexible plastic legs) and be able to position it somewhat. I feel Largan should have included something along these lines. 

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