Camera for Chatting

I have an iBook G4 and I believe it was the last Mac made without a camera built into it. I would like to get a camera, but Mac stopped selling them through the store. Can you suggest a camera that I could get that works. I live in Italia and I went to the store today and none of the models sold there were compatible with Macs.

heyjude9, Welcome to the discussion area!
A Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision works well. I don't know if they are available there.

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