>The plan was to use 1280x1024 since that's what the
>LCD monitors can display. If we get a better monitor,
>we'd up the camera settings.

You might like to look at the little 1/4", 1/3" and so on cameras that are
available from various places. These come in XGA (1.3MP) and larger sizes,
and are the type of things used in the likes of cell phone cameras and
(probably) web cams. They have an I2C control bus and parallel video at
selectable rates.

The bit that may get you is sensitivity, but I cannot see that they are
likely to be that much worse than most other cameras.

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