I've had good success with the playstation eye cameras. They've had kernel support in linux for a while, are easy to find, work well in low light, and have lots of resolution and frame rate options. In my opinion, for the price, you'll have a hard time finding something as good. Focus and zoom isn't super flexible, but there is some room to work. The lens rotates and essentially has two settings, one a closer zoomed tight field of view, and a second wider view. I've used two at the same time. I've tried 3 playstation eye cams at the same time and some combos using a kinect as a video source too but I've never managed to get more than two usb video devices working at the same time. YMMV I've got a couple of patches up on my github where I use two of the playstation eye cams at the same time. https://github.com/goldfish
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Martin Eckart imartron@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to do some live visuals and am looking for a suitable webcam to use with pd in linux (or osx). If possible I'd like to be able to set the focus and zoom manually (since it'll stand only a few inches away from the object).
Anyone have recommendations for cameras they've used?
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