JIMCOMHD 1080P 60Fts USB3.0/IP PTZ Streaming Camera for Business Meetings,Government,Churches,Education,vMix OBS Joystick Supports -Silver

The media could not be loaded.  Typical web cams built-in on laptops and phones have gotten pretty good, but those of us that spent some time with old school video or SLRs know that that best zooms are optical (instead of digital) and the best lenses are large enough to allow a lot of light to pass through (making low light images more natural). This camera embodies those old school concepts with a 5.5x110 mm lens that's got aperture settings up to F1.6 (depending on zoom settings). These are impressive numbers by any measure. Where modern technology shines in this camera is in the electronics and interfaces, etc. Auto focus, remote zooming and panning - and multiple outputs as well. When you bring all of this together into a very usable camera like this one does, you've got a winner.First, the obvious - the picture quality is excellent. Certainly suitable for conferencing or a video blog, and in fact, will look great in any type of performance videos. If you want to put your best face forward by emitting a professional grade video, you should use professional quality equipment like this.Second is ease of use. I confess that when I first set this up, I simply plugged it into a monitor - that doesn't work. You need to plug it into a device with appropriate software. Once I plugged it into the USB drive of my older Lenovo laptop, I simply pulled up Skype and there it was. I was able to run it through some simple paces without any further action. And again, the picture looked great. I even dimmed the lights in the room to see how well it would handle it - beautifully! Just for fun, I zoomed out to show the room and then zoomed in to show my whiskers... all presented in GREAT detail (the autofucus struggled just a little to lock focus on my whiskers when zoomed all the way in, in a low light setting, but I switched to manual focus and was able to tweak it right in). And the real beauty of this system is that it's all controlled by remote.Another nice feature that was immediately obvious - the gimbal that the camera's mounted on is, of course, motorized - but it runs in complete silence. Nobody's going to want to watch a video of they can hear the sounds of a camera being manipulated. This is yet another feature that separates the pro equipment from the rest.The base is solid and usage is straightforward. My only nit would be that the manual is a bit sparse, giving technical specifications about various models of cameras rather than detailed info about usage - but so far, everything I've tried has been fairly straightforward, and I've managed without any further detailed instructions. Very nice!

I thought it would be fun to add a high quality PTZ camera to my WFH setup. The built-in camera on my laptop is only 720p and this camera is true HD (1080p). Additionally, having a PTZ camera allows me more freedom to position the camera and myself around my combination computer desk - stationary exercise cycle setup for video conferences. I can focus in on my head and shoulders and use virtual background more easily. This camera does what I wanted to do and does it perfectly. You just have to "use the force" and not rely on the instruction book, which looks thorough until you try to read it and find the Chinese-to-English translation is pretty inadequate. This is fortunately offset by how well and how easily the device actually works.I interfaced this to my MacBook Pro 15.4" from 2015 MY with USB 3.0. I read what I could of the instructions and decided this would be the easiest way to go. The device has Ethernet, analog (I think), and some sort of HDMI interface as well. You can also connect an RS232 line for control which is what you might want to do in a multi-camera environment. The system allows up to four of these to be operated in a direct wired network. Note that there is NO wifi connection for this nor a bluetooth. If you use a networked connection, you will have to do more work than I did by enabling the device on your network and in your video server application wherever that might be. This unit is able to be used for (may have been intended for?) a situation where it is mounted above a smart tv and have both the TV and the camera be connected to a local server interfacing both to conferencing software or channel. I didn't test that.After powering on the device and connecting the USB 3.0 to my laptop the camera powered on and moved to its home position. I fired up Zoom and this camera was automatically already selected as the video input. How cool is that? The remote control does NOT come with batteries, so I inserted two of my own AAA alkaline and was able to use the direction and zoom controls immediately. There is a microphone input (vs. an actual microphone) and associated volume control on the control which I did not test since the one in my laptop works fine and took precedence. This means that the camera auto-sensed the lack of an attached microphone and left my laptop audio input alone. Super!The picture looked great! I was able to zoom back and forth. In my first video conference with others, they all thought it looked great as well. In my work I sometimes have to show an object and point to it's parts - this will make that a lot better experience for the viewers since I will not be attempting to do this by tilting my laptop around. It is also nice that I don't need to clean the lens from fingerprints as I do frequently on the laptop. All of the movement controls responded very smoothly. Just great!My next plan for this camera is to move it to our home theater and connect it to our HDTV for family calls.If you are handy with this sort of device - I view myself as "pretty good but not a full fledged IT guy" - this is a great way to get up to "pro-quality" conferencing without spending thousands of dollars.