Live! webcam - VERY dark image

We have a new Creative Live! webcam. The picture generated by this camera is VERY VERY dark. We've tried using the driver from the CD and from the Creative website; different versions of the Webcam Center software; manually adjusting brightness, contrast, gamma, image size and frames per second. The image is still very dark. What can be done to correct this problem? We never had this issue with our old Creative PD0040?webcam. Image sample is at: HERE
Message Edited by SimpleSimon on 01-30-2007 12:08 AM

I have a similar situation:
Case - In very low light conditions, with auto exposure ON: if I set FPS at 30, I actually get about 20 and a dark image as if auto exposure wasn't working
Case 2 - In very low light conditions, with auto exposure ON: if I set FPS at 25 or less, I actually get about 5 but a very good image (auto exposure works dramatically well).
Case 3 - In very low light conditions, with auto exposure OFF: effecti've FPS matches whatever I set it at, but I get a very dark image
Case 4 - Now, in low to normal light conditions, regardless of auto exposure being ON or OFF, I can set FPS at 30, actually get 30 and a very good image (auto exposure works dramatically well).
I'm curious why auto exposure seems to play such an important role on frame rate and image quality, under very low light. Is exposure adjustment done at the camera or by software? I'm running a 3 ghz processor with lots of headroom.

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