I bought this a couple of years ago so i could take pictures for my student directed play. It took the worst pictures I had ever seen. At the time it was a lot more than it is now, and it wan't worth what I paid for it, it works ok as webcam, but that is it. A blind person could take better pictures than this thing does. That is no joke. I had to be real up close and personal for the picture to be of any count and in theater you don't want closeups of everything anymore than you do in movies.