LifeCam 3000 HD - Unable to manually set exposure for dark images

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

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Be careful, the camera only accepts a certain set of valid value for these exposure settings. A value of 5 seemed to work okay for us, but we need to test this more.

Absolutely correct!

Without pointing fingers, let's just say, Microsoft LifeCams will ONLY accept certain values, everything else will end up with over exposure.

As an example, I used V4L2 commands to set exposure. Only the following work:
5, 9, 10, 19, 20, 39, 78, 156, 312, 625, 1250, 2500, 5000 and 10000. Nothing beyond 156 works for 30FPS.

The saddest part of this is that if you query the camera for values it will accept, it reply's with "5-20,000".