If you are on OS X or Linux, I would suggest the PS3 EyeCam. (there are issues with it in WIndows)

Haven't used them with Processing, but the Microsoft LifeCam worked well for me in the past for exactly this... I used this one... a little expensive though. 

I was using a cheap cam for opencv stuff, and it had an auto brightness kind of setting - that would cause the image to flicker and mess with the tracking. So I guess any camera with the ability to turn this kind of thing off should be fine.

Old post here which mentions something similar: http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.video/browse_thread/thread/76729aec4850180e/128818b4cb9759a?pli=1


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Hi all! thnx for the feedback, were all good ideas. I actually bought the webcam today a Microsoft LiveCam... not the cinema but this one. It has all the auto brightness/color adjustments but it's quite easy to set everything to manual. The only problem I'm having is with the resolution (the camera is 720p hd). I tried it with the processing library, jmyron and opencv and with all I get conflicts with the resolution in any case it seems to force the widescreen into the 640x480. Is there a way to get around this? Should I just return this one and get and non-widescreen hd webcam?

thnx again!!