1080P USB Webcam with Zoom 2.8-12mm Vari-Focus PC Camera - 100fps/60fps Varifocal Lens

Not one to write reviews but this camera is great and works fantastic on my Mac. Love the adjustments I can make and the clarity of the webcam transmission on Zoom calls. Beats every Microsoft camera I've had to date.

This wide-angle to short tele lens model is being used as a PC camera (UVC). The good: Image IQ is decent in good light and sensitivity can be partly controlled with a manual aperture ring. That also affects the depth of field. Varifocal (type of zoom) lens allows for tighter cropping than the typical wide-ultrawide lens on a webcam. Camera works in Windows 10 without any drivers. It is literally plug and play, which is great for good for WFH on corporate computers. Manual focus avoids the camera auto-focusing to and fro. (Some might find this a con.) USB cable is long and thick, so placement is not an issue and it should be durable. The bad: The 1/4-20 sockets are not flush with the body of the lens, so there is very little surface area to contact and they tend to rotate on hard mounts. The two sockets allow for upright or hanging options. The lens quality is mediocre. At the wide end there is hard vignetting in the corners and serious barrel distortion. At the long end there is moderate pincusion. Image is better in the middle third of the zoom range. The lens is varifocal (not anywhere near a parfocal lens that maintains focus while zooming) so the focus must be changed when zoomed in or out. The zoom and focus controls are very small and easy to inadvertently move, so plan to set up the camera at a particular setting and leaving it there for the session.

Works perfectly on my Chromebook. Standard 1/4 20 mount both above and below. Good low light performance. Great picture. Zoom and focus easy to figure out. No microphone (which is a plus in my mind). Couldn't ask for more! Keep in mind that 2MP is more than most laptop Webcams. You really don't want more than that eventhough this one has siblings with more.

I purchased this for use as a webcam. During the COVID, so many webcams are backordered, and I wanted the capability of a zoom lens so that I was only showing my head+shoulders, not my whole room. Unfortunately, it is not great for this purpose. The image quality is not great: the resolution is there, but colors and tones are not rendered well: skin looks splotchy, and dark features like hair show up as black. Maybe the situation is better with a lot more light. However, the camera seems to have trouble with the LED and fluorescent light bulbs in my room. When I have these lights on, there are rolling gray bars that appear in the image. Moreover, there seems to be an "auto gain" in the camera's sensor, so that when I increase the lighting, the camera adjusts and makes the picture darker again! The lens is a bit strange. Certainly "you get what you pay for." It has a bit of trouble focusing to infinity at some zoom levels. But, you can focus very close: you can focus onto a piece of dust placed on the surface of the lens! Why I kept the camera? For one, the image quality is decent for outdoors/daylight. Two, I'd been previously looking for a digital microscope to use while repairing electronics boards. These can be $100s of dollars, but with a decent light, this camera might just fit the bill at quite a lower cost.

The 2.8-12mm camera was perfect! Exceeded my needs. There was a slight issue with receiving the wrong view angle camera, but without even a call, support sent out the correct one ASAP and without asking, just to make sure everything was what I ordered. I will be doing more business with them for sure! Thanks!

I am very disappointed in this camera. I have to wonder if the one I received is defective or the reviews are fake. The overall image quality is good, and that is the only positive thing I can say. To start with, there is lag in the image on screen and the picture distorts if I move too quickly. I have tried a number of things to fix this without any luck. I have tried connecting it USB 2.O and USB 3.O ports with no change. I have connected it to a powered USB hub to make sure it had sufficient power to run, no change. This is connected to a powerful computer with a fast cpu, 24gb of ram and a dedicated graphics card and it still lags and distorts. I also found the picture to be dim. I have it in a room with professional video lighting equipment, and despite the reviews claiming it performs well in low light, I had the aperture open all the way and the image still appeared dim in a well lit room. I may exchange it and if I do, I will comment again on the review. What I can say for certain is that the unit I received is utterly useless as a web cam and I would advise everyone to not waste their time nor money on this camera.

I've been using it as an overhead camera so I can demonstrate bench-top work and draw while streaming or recording for teaching, it's perfectly adequate for that. The 2.8-12mm offers a good range of FoV (Field of View) for capturing a table from a couple feet up while staying out of the way of your head and hands. Standard 1/4-20 tripod holes on top and bottom offer flexible mounting. The permanently attached USB cable with in-line detach is a little odd, but not a problem for my use-case. Having control of the aperture is helpful for killing glare and adjusting depth of field. It does have a few slightly annoying features. The lens is distinctly varifocal so you will need to adjust focus any time you change zoom, and the controls are pretty sensitive (but lockable). The FoV changes with resolution mode because it adjusts crop, so watch that your streaming/recording software doesn't change resolution automatically or you might accidentally find yourself out of frame. It's not a fancy camera body, you aren't getting high-end production video out of it, and the lens has a bit of distortion and vignetting especially at the ends of its zoom range, but these things offer a lot of functionality for the size and price.

What can I say. It is a great camera but not at all what I ordered and what I needed. Same as another customer has also reported, I ordered the 2.8-12mm version and received instead the 5-50mm version, despite the box was labelled as "2MP 2.8". I wanted to use this camera as an improved webcam that I can place in front of the screen, so that people can see me watching to their eyes while I look at them in my videoconferences. For that purpose I have to place the camera in front of the monitor, which hides just a small portion of the screen thanks to a slim mini-stand that I also bought for that purpose (a model for projectors with adjustable angle that keeps this camera very stable, you can check product B07VDJYWLF). But now in the lowest 5mm range my face takes the whole size of my video image, which is not at all how I wanted the others to see me! It is a pity that they didn't send me the right version that I ordered, because otherwise the quality is excellent. I guess they just need to improve their supply process. But now I feel disappointed. Beware that you can also receive the wrong camera, then better think first if the 5-50mm version would be also valid for your purpose! Also to add that in the short 5mm range it is really difficult to adjust the focus wheel to see my big face at least with perfect focus (notice that these kind of cameras are auto-focus, you always have to play manually with the focus wheel every time you change the zoom, which I was already aware of). At that range the focal distance is so short that a very small movement of the wheel means a big change in the focus. Un unfortunately the right distance is not exactly at the end of the wheel, then it is quite difficult to find manually the right position. That is an issue that I'm sure wouldn't happen to the 2.8-12mm because then I wouldn't need to focus at its shorter range.