Bricks in Motion
We are a friendly filmmaking community devoted to the art of stop-motion animation using LEGO® and similar construction toys. Here, you can share your work, join our community of other brickfilmers, and participate in periodic animation contests!
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What are your preferred camera types. Compact? Camcorder? Webcam? Other?
I prefer Camcorders, as they are easy to use, generally come with a remote and give fairly good quality. Better still are the HD Camcorders which give fantastic animation results
As you said, camcorder.
camcorders are nice but to get the good ones they cost alot, meanwhile the webcams give amazing quality with such a cheap price (the 9k), so i think webcams are the best!;)
Believe it or not most proffessional studios use dslr cameras for animation.
it depends on your budget. webcams will do fine and theyre really easy to use etc. camcorders i think are the worst option cause theyre big and probably shoot in sd. 
those are snazzy.
I use a Panasonic DV Camcorder that I use with Framebyframe through a firewire port.
It all depends on your purpose, it needs to be cleared all here: http://www.brickfilms.com/index.php?act … r%20You%3F
If you know how to use the Quickcam Pro 9000, it's great.
I found the quickcam to be a bit small and flimsy (just my opinion) whereas a camcorder or DSLR are sturdy
Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000
they are all different in there own way some are good some are bad so im using a simple Manhattan minicam for my stop motion
I had been using a Panasonic SDR camcorder, but my sister has a Panasonic Lumix digital camera...
The quality is better, but I need to find out if it has a manual focus, because the auto focus can be
annoying. 
DSLR's are the best cameras for animation, end of story 
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My tripod is broken, so it is very hard to not get a jumpy film... grr. 
Micro 4/3 are the best for animation, because DSLR's (Unless you get top-notch) have a warranty on how many times, the mirror can get out of the way, which is about 10,000. Micro 4/3 can have lens' and take awesome photos.
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