I love the blink camera, I have 2 XTs, 2 XT2s, and I just got 3 Outdoors. They all work perfectly. THERE IS NO MONTHLY FEE (if you want cloud storage you can get a subscription, but you don’t need it). I email any videos I want to save to myself, and save them to my computer, now that I have the USB storage option I added that. These Blink cameras are worth their weight in gold. Unfortunately I got them after a break in but prevented a second break just 4 months later (and because of the cameras I was able to send the video straight to the officer on site, giving him the proof needed to deal with the perpetrator). I’ve also gotten video of various suspicious activities when I’m not home, but at least I know. You get the alert pretty quickly, quickly enough to react by calling the police.

I wanted to get a good "bang for my buck" starter scope, and I kept seeing the XT8 and I've read the reviews of it and was impressed so I bought it. The Telescope Arrived around a week later and I carried it inside, I noticed there was a big hole in the box, that's not good so I snapped some pictures of the box and took the telescope out, there was a giant dent in it, oh boy I thought. I snapped some pictures of the dent as well and figured I might as well try it before I contact customer support so after around an hour I finished assembling it, then waited for a non-cloudy day and Wow! This scope is amazing, the dent didn't affect it's performance. I wish I could recreate the moment where I first took it out and took off the cap and pointed it at a random pitch black part of the sky and saw dozens of stars in crisp clarity. I've seen Jupiter and the 4 moons, the Moon is astonishing, I warn you that with out a filter it hurts your eyes but its so amazing you wont be able to look away, I haven't been able to see any other planets due to where I live and the season, but I have seen some deep space objects as well. The first few nights of viewing had some light clouds and humidity and such preventing me from finding Andromeda but on a cold clear night I managed to find it and it's quite amazing, a very defined yellow blob, with 2 other blobs in the vicinity, I was also able to observe the Ring Nebula and I could see it's structure clearly.Now onto the customer service, I emailed and received a reply quite quickly, it didn't sound like Orion wanted to replace my damaged telescope tube until I sent them the high quality pictures I snapped of the packaging and the dent, after that I received a reply stating that my new and undamaged tube is already on the way (I've received it by now and it's great).Overall a great experience here and I recommend this telescope to anyone wanting a really good beginner or even pro telescope.

Finder scope is junk. Everything else so far is primo. Suggest Orion include a better finder scope with the XT8 classic.

Daylight, or a little bit of light these new cameras are on par with my old Blink XT cameras.Night vision is only about 75% of the Blink Xt camera!My old, battery almost dead Blink Xt on the front of the house sees almost the same amount of front yard at night as it does in the day. This new camera barely "sees" 50% of what it sees in the daylight.Buy it for the faster response time, better daytime pictures, just don't expect good nighttime pictures.

Took very nice and clear picture on my old Digital Rebel XT camera.

Works. Product arms a little shorter and thinner than anticipated from picture. Will connect to Camera, XT, Xt2. Can't comment on new Outside camera.

Love these cameras, I also have the original xt2, that I added these to. They have nice, clean and crisp picture/video even in night mode

I've had Rebel XT for 7 years, loved it, decided to get a new model. No regrets so far, great camera!!