I use the logitech quickcam deluxe. You can get cheaper ones, but this one works great with cheese and skype etc, including support for the built-in microphone and its noise-canceling and its auto-adjusting light/brightness. Great image (glass lens), focusing, etc.
I think all the logitech cameras are supported in the major distributions. -C On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Brian Lavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:07:42PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: >> >> So thinking back, I was an idiot, not getting a Dell laptop with a webcam. >> I mean... I'm the author of Tux Paint, right? What better thing to do >> in Tux Paint than scribble a mustache on your own picture, right? >> >> Anyway, I'm considering purchasing something, hopefully cheap and small. >> I'm looking at Portvideo as a library to use (within Tux Paint), >> which apparently uses Video4Linux behind the scenes. (They suggest a >> "Philips ToUcam Pro", which I cannot find on Amazon, and don't see on eBay). >> >> Does anyone here have one they can recommend? And... if you have it handy, >> would you be willing to try using it with Portvideo to see if it works? :) >> >> http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/?portvideo > > You could get the Dell Mini 9 with the webcam built in. :) > > http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DellMini9 > http://www.dell.com/ > > I have one of those Phillips webcams too. It is the Logitech 4000, but > it is a Phillips underneath and uses the same driver. It doesn't quite > have a mount for the laptop though. > > brian > -- > Brian Lavender > http://www.brie.com/brian/ > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Carl Boettiger Population Biology, UC Davis http://two.ucdavis.edu/~cboettig _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
