ELP 8 Megapixel Zoom Web Camera IMX179 Sensor USB Camera 2448P Webcam HD 2.8-12 mm Variable Focus Manual Lens Camera Supports Windows/Linux/Android/Raspberry Pi USB8MP02G-SFV (2.8-12 mm)

great image quality. can't stop using it. 4k perfect image. low-light is also good.

Similar to the Marshall CV500 series, but without the specialized electronics for professional studio use. An eighth of the price, though! # It's in a heavyweight solid metal cuboid case with a 1/4 inch screw socket for a tripod on both top and bottom of the case. # The Sony IMX179 1080p sensor unit is the standard one, and the only connector is a heavyweight 30cm lead to an inline 5-pin pentagon inline socket, which couples via a matching inline plug to a standard USB A plug - total length 3 metres. # The lens supplied (there are also fixed-focal length lenses available if you shop around) is a superb telephoto 2.8mm - 12mm, marked as aperture 1:1.4, and 1/2.5 inch CS IR (presumably the sensor). It's locked onto the screw mount with a tiny Allen screw. The lens thread is about 30mm, but I haven't checked exactly. A dust cap is supplied. # All the lens controls are manual (what do you expect at this price?) and are, from the base, > wide-tele zoom ring, > aperture ring (needed to stop down in strong light) and > focus ring. All the adjustment rings turn smoothly and with a little resistance - perfect for fine adjustment - and the zoom and focus each has a locking screw. In use as a webcam (all I've tried it with yet) the camera zoom runs from medium wide-angle to a good close-up - about a 4.3x zoom. Most webcams are fixed focal length, somewhere between wide and super-wide. So it's great for studio use. With this, you can keep the camera further away, so you get a full head-and-shoulders without the bulbous nose and giant hands of typical webcams. With an adaptor to convert the USB output to HDMI (I have the Hulier at about £15) and a USB-A female to female convertor, it should work well as a TV monitor camera, or like an HDMI camera like the Marshall CV-506 at about £520 (minus the full output and control suite). So it ought to work as a feed camera for a Blackmagic ATEM Mini video switch. ELP supplies a small help leaflet in the box, a QR code for installing Amcap control software (frame rate, resolution, etc), which I haven't tried, and sent a welcome email offering to debug any problems on installation, via Amazon messaging. Good! I chose this camera, though, rather than others which appear identical but come direct from China, because of the Amazon Prime system of supply, in case of problems - worth a couple of quid more! Everything has been fine, though. Last point: there are no sound capabilities, unlike regular webcams. That would have to come from an independent microphone. But if you're setting up your own vlogging suite, you'll have that anyway, and won't want to use the inferior camera microphone!

I used this camera for live streaming our local church services. Camera is super easy to setup and use. And with the standard tripod screw connector on the bottom, easy to mount. Worked perfectly with obs studio for our YouTube channel. Only thing I noticed was a slight yellow hue in the centre of the picture. Most of time it is hard to notice but if you have a lot of white in the centre of the picture you will notice it. But if you are looking for a budget way to live stream this camera will be good enough for you.

Hi all hope this will help you We searched the internet for a compact usb camera to use for photos to be taken from a fixed frame indoors and this camera model ticked all boxes as soon as we received the first camera we were up and running very quickly. The camera is good solid construction and we used for a few hours a day for just over one month before it went dead We contact the seller directly and explained the problem and I agreed to send back to them in China at my cost for examination and possible repair- the Photo is of the repaired camera just returned today ( not tested yet ) While the camera was away we bought 2 more Cameras of the same type and just this week one of those cameras failed- So 2 out of 3 cameras failed in a two month period - surely not a coincidence- don’t get me wrong while working in an anti static environment cameras did a great job. But seller just says we’ve sold loads of these cameras- so must be something we’re doing Maybe so - or do customers buy a camera and when it fails just return without making a fuss or comment? All I know is that if a comment like this had been available I probably would not have bought my first camera

The construction was nice and very solid, I was very happy with if for about 30 seconds until I realized that there were hundreds of dead/blury pixels all over the image. Maybe I just got unlucky, but I would have thought QC would have picked that up...

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Hi, I use it to see what my products look like being lasered and also to see where the laser line is, I chose this camera as it’s small and compact and doesn’t take up too much room in the machine, I was hoping the quality was a bit better for the price, but it does what I need, thanks

I find the camera a good value for its money. I uses a 3rd party software to setup and manipulate, besides the physical screws and lenses adjustments. A minor remark is that sometimes it loses connection (blacks out) and I have to unplug/plug the usb into the computer again. Besides that, it works as expected.