The best webcam on ROS indigo

It is pretty hard to find a good list of 'known good' cameras on ROS.
However, as ROS supports UVC (USB video class) searching for a camera that supports this is great.

Also, a wide angle camera is a success factor to consider.
For many applications have a large field of view is perfect.

Testing cameras
a simple way to test cameras is using guvcview.
syntax:

guvcview
OR
guvcview -d /dev/video1  (or whichever device id the camera is connected to)

you can install guvcview with sudo apt-get install guvcview

Of course, you can also test the camera with the ROS usb_cam package as described in this post.

Cameras tested

• Logitech C270
• Logitech HD C615
• Logitech HD C910
• Logitech HD C920
• Microsoft Lifecam Studio - Works with usb_cam but gives extremely bright images.   Functionally unusable.  It is labelled a widescreen camera and the field of view is almost as good as the Logitech C910
• Media-tech MT4047 - Camera requires a different pixelformat setting (yuyv instead of mjpeg). However, after a few frames the camera seems to freeze
• G-Cube compactcam

My personal absolute favorite is the Logitech HD C920. It is light sensitive, gives a clear picture and largest field-of-view of all cameras tested by me.

Field of view comparison