📷 High-Quality 2MP Varifocal Lens USB Camera with 4X Optical Zoom and adjustable range of view - Perfect for Raspberry Pi, Focus Adjustable 1080@30fps Review

We use it to live stream a church service and it's a good camera. Manual focus is key; without losing focus when someone steps in front of him. The picture is clear. Brightness control is good. I would give 5 stars if the infinite focus was perfect; Things over 30 feet away are a little blurry. But for the money this is a good camera.

Ordered the 2.8-12mm version, received the 5-50mm version in a box marked 2.8-12. So far it meets my needs. The lens is sharper than expected when you are within the focus range. Zooming to 50mm doesn't focus very far. 7 or 8 feet is the maximum possible distance. This improves quickly as you scale down. The lens has a three-blade iris that closes in an arrowhead shape, creating a weird bokeh when out of focus. In addition, the image is vignetted quite heavily, and at a wide setting (5mm) there

I had high hopes for this camera and hoped to use it in the auditorium to shoot the sound booth scene in the back of the auditorium. The camera body itself looks quite functional. I was thrilled to find a reasonably priced telephoto lens and for my purposes the manual zoom/focus is a plus. He won't try to refocus on the audience when they stand up. Unfortunately, there is an incredibly annoying yellow cast in the middle. The lens and CMOS are clean, it seems like it's just a bad/cheap lens…

If you're looking for a manual focus zoom webcam with an acceptable aperture, this could be the one for you. On one PC I observed some vignetting at most focal lengths, on another PC I didn't see it (even after removing and replacing the lens with a shorter lens-to-sensor distance). It's not even remotely parfocal, but it doesn't pretend to be either. The Focus labels appear to be swapped, but that's not a big problem since there aren't any labeled positions. When I removed the lens there was a

I bought three of these cameras to use for live church services. They are very good for this purpose as I needed to take a closer look in a large room and a normal wide angle webcam was not suitable for this purpose. The cameras have a metal body and lens barrel, are relatively heavy and look well made. They also produce 1080p 30fps videos which I need for the OBS software I use. The cameras have 1/4" threaded mounting holes on both the top and bottom, allowing them to be "stacked" in a tight…

I used this as a ceiling cam so I can demonstrate and draw work on my desk while streaming or recording for class, it's perfect for that. The 2.8-12mm offers a good FoV (Field of View) range to capture a table from a few meters up without obstructing your head and hands. Standard 1/4-20 tripod holes on top and bottom ensure flexible mounting. A hard-wired USB cable with a built-in circuit breaker is a bit odd, but not a problem for my use case. Aperture control is useful for eliminating glare…