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A Windows 10 computer with a broadband internet connection (a dial-up connection is too slow for Skype).

How to launch the Skype app on Windows 10 (pre-installed on your computer).

If you are not logged in with your Microsoft account, you can still follow the on-screen instructions that appear when you click the Skype icon, and use either an existing Skype or Microsoft account to sign-in, or create a new Skype account altogether. All you need to do to set it up is log in with your Microsoft account, click the icon from the Start menu, and provide any information you are asked for. For me, it hits the sweet spot.Skype (which is now owned by Microsoft) is available in Windows 10 as a built-in app. There are good cameras for less, but without the USP of this one. People who pay four times as much are not mad, they have different requirements. There are plenty of people for whom it’s an excellent choice, though many won’t understand why the downside is worth putting up with. So whether this is the right choice for you depends on your priorities. Rightly or wrongly I think it might eventually cause problems. Personally I don’t keep switching between stalk and no stalk.

Actually I’m not aware of any product which does. But this is an economical device and it doesn’t have that feature. It would be great if the camera could be flipped aside easily when not videoconferencing and flipped back when needed. I’ve suggested that the option of a half-length stalk could be good. You can still switch to using the stalk on occasions when that’s more important. Used without the stalk it provides all the benefits except the eye contact with the viewer. My job is communication and what the viewer sees is worth inconveniencing myself for.

To me this big sacrifice is absolutely worth it. So I’ve got the ball containing the camera obstructing my view of the screen. This means I need the camera in front of the screen, between me and it. The reason I use this camera is the importance of appearing to look at the viewer, not below, above or to one side. The result shows in presentations to the public, where the result is decisively better than other people get by just relying in their computer’s camera and mike.

No need for earphones to prevent these problems, so visual communication is unencumbered by those. No problems with echo or feedback, which I think means the Logitech people have done clever stuff, and I think this is quite remarkable. I use a Røde microphone, so can’t comment on the mike in this device, but I find the loudspeaker sound perfectly adequate for incoming speech. For videoconferencing the image quality is visibly superior to that from a good computer’s built-in camera.