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Which is best dicital cam or webcam, I dont know for picture quality digital cams are better but webcams are smaller and cheaper 
A quickcam is (we personally think) easier to use, while a digital camera may give better quality though. This would be a good question to ask Smeagol, though I best he will say that it depends.
For brickfilming: webcam
To add to the others comments, if your looking at price, you'll find that webcams are mostly much cheaper than digital cameras. Although, there are some decent and cheap digital cameras.
In my opinion Digital Camera, use a remote, to, uh, "remotely" take your pictures, but, er, if you want to use a webcam, then you want to use a webcam.
As everyone says use a Digital Camera that it keeps its quality even in 3 inches away and has Manual Focus.
either that or go with the stunning 100 dollar Logitech pro 9000.
Ark 11 is right. Here's what I wrote in another thread just like this one, about 5 seconds ago:
If you're only willing to fork out up to $100, you should get the Quickcam. If you want something you can take photos with in the real world as well, you'll have to spend a lot more. Look here and here to see the cameras that work with SMP - I'm guessing they'll also work with Helium Frog and other animation programs but I'm not sure.
Personally, I think webcams are much easier to use. Also, it's not true that digital cameras have better quality, as you can get quality even better than digital cameras with the Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000. It has up to 8.0MP still frames. It is meant for Windows, but it works on Macs, too. The only problem is, on Windows it has autofocus, but you can change that in the setting of your capture software to manual focus, but on Mac it only uses autofocus. Overall, I personally think webcams are a much better choice. 
It is not only of megapixels iGL, it is also of the p like the720p that is HD both have it.
Personally, I think webcams are much easier to use. Also, it's not true that digital cameras have better quality, as you can get quality even better than digital cameras with the Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000. It has up to 8.0MP still frames. It is meant for Windows, but it works on Macs, too. The only problem is, on Windows it has autofocus, but you can change that in the setting of your capture software to manual focus, but on Mac it only uses autofocus. Overall, I personally think webcams are a much better choice.
IgotLegosFilms is right! If you can change the 9k to 8 MP why should you buy a digital camera then? A digital camera is more expensive...
That "8 megapixels" is through interpolation which means it's basically stretching the native resolution of 2 megapixels. You get no more detail that way.
You don't need high resolutions like that so what's the point?
Webcam or DSLR, if you can fish out the cash.
I got a digital camera for christmas and a webcam just because I asked my dad.
I mean, some can be better than others right???
And I want good quality because I am working a lot on cinematography.
Of course some are better thn others.
Tip: Don't over-use question marks please, some people get annoyed 
It is not only of megapixels iGL, it is also of the p like the720p that is HD both have it.
By the way, I don't know how i'm just noticing your mistake now, but the 'p' you were talking about stands for PIXELS. So when you said it is not all about megapixels, but the 'p' as well, your basically just saying that it IS about megapixels... Don't know how I missed that.
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