Purchasing a webcam for skype video calling

Any important points to note?

Safe to go cheap or important to spend a little extra?

http://www.xpcomputers.co.nz/views.asp?hw_id=4680

Actually go into XP Computers, or iFocus has moved to Khyber Pass now, get the one you're comfortable with.

LON > AKL isnt going to be great bitrate. Just grab any old Logitech...

Sweet, XP or iFocus was my plan anyway. Just working out which is cheaper for a terabyte drive, enclosure, 8GB SD card and a webcam or two

PBTech is doing 1TB thin external drives atm for $189 on special - Western Digital.

As for webcams I was looking a couple of weeks ago because I meet with a few people in the US and UK over Skype and found that they all suck in quality. I did however find that getting the Logitech cameras with the Carl Zeiss lense make a huge differance.

Fucked if I know le techy stuff, but I got a higher video res DSE one and the image quality on the other end is HEAPS better than the standard old ones.

http://www.dse.co.nz/dse.shop/49bede3c00c580662743c0a87f3b071b/Product/View/XH5223


Have found it a bit slow to focus if you're moving around a bit but no idea if that's standard for all or not.