What is the best web-cam out there?

Justin

A friend of mine has an unlimited budget to get a set of web cams with and needs to know what would be the best way to go. I know virtually nothing about these things so...what should I tell him to get?

Dexter

Pretty much anything by Logitech. They make great webcams.

The QuickCam Orbit model features mechanical pan and tilt for automatic face tracking. You can walk across a room and it will follow you.

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/CA/EN,CRID=4,CONTENTID=7172

Dexter...

CB

If you have an unlimited budget, get a couple of Panasonic DX100 studio cameras, and link those into your computer...

Each camera will run you about $7k. Anything more expensive than those would be impractical for webcam use...

If you need help setting this stuff up, let me know, and I'll give you what help I can, I work with these types of cameras on a regular basis.

MoTHA_NaTuRE

$7k for a webcam? even if i had unlimited budget, i still be too stingy for that. quickcam orbit is quite nice.

Zanthian

Go for the Quickcam Orbit.

Sputnik

gonna have to agree with the quickcam orbits.... question though: what are these for?

Nomad

I hear real good things about Logitech, I've even used one and it was nice. I guess it ultimately depends on the quality you're looking for.

PressX

Logitech have great webcams. If you want to spend > $150 I would also look at the dlink DCS2100+ as security/webcam. If you pm me I'll give you access to one of mine so you can see them in action...

They have there own IP so are great for networking.

http://www.dlink.com/products/category.asp?cid=60