I now own several akaso products - the V50 elite is by far my favorite. Great battery life, high quality even in low light. Ability to shoot time lapse and varying frame rates options (more extensive than even the best smartphone on the market). I also enjoy the 3 lens options (narrow, normal and wide, I typically prefer wide). Great customer service and responsiveness.

This was the third DSLR I purchased, the other two being Nikon D60's. (returned both of those and bought the Rebel, which I should have done in the FIRST PLACE). I wanted to get back in to SLR/35 MM equivelant cameras from POS ones I used for many years now. Compared to the Nikon D60, this camera is well worth the extra money. I have used the Xsi for three months now and my daughter has also used for school. I have taken sporting shots, animals, family, scenery etc..and except for the auto settings to be sometimes inconsistent, the picture quality overall is fantastic. I take most of my pictures on full resolution and crop to my liking later and the Xsi allows for some really nice cropping results because of the 12.2 MP it offers. The Nikon is only 10.2 MP but that was not a deciding factor. The extra MP are a bonus, but you will see no difference in prints between 10 and 12 MP in reality. Battery Life has been excellent and since I like to take action shots, I have used this camera at several sporting events this year. Most of the bad pictures, (yes, there are some from time to time) are likely as a result of the user, me. Once I got to understand the settings a little better, my action shots got better. If you want a DSLR and do not want to spend much more than $1,000 for a body, and two lenses, this basic kit plus the EF 55-250 MM lens, this is a great camera. I still have a few POS cameras that take equally good pictures, so won't recommend on picture quality basis alone. If you want a camera that takes great pictures, and do not really want the DSLR for it's SLR capabilities, save your money and get a POS. The Rebel is not really portable, and unlike a POS, you cannot fit in a pocket or conceal if you need to. It is a DSLR for more serious photography. I do recommend this camera, but please do not consider as a replacement to your POS, but rather a companion to it. I still enjoy my Panasonic TZ5 POS camera, but really like the Rebel XSi and would recommend over any other entry level DSLR camera. Spend the extra for this (or Rebel Ti) if you are also looking at the Nikon D40 or D60. Also, it IS made of basically plastic, as are the other cameras on the market of this grouping. It does not feel particularly clumsy, but I did purchase a Delkin rubber skin and it works wonderfully!

This seems like a very solid choice for a baby monitor. Here's what we're liking so far:1. Solid feel: The monitor itself is solid. Seems like it will hold up very well. (In contrast, our previous monitor was an InfantOptics, which was nice, but the body of it was cheap and constantly fell apart...)2. Features: There are lots of options and features here, plenty for our needs. Room temp (handy!), voice activation options, LCD options, talk-through, etc.3. Functionality: This just works well. Connects instantly/consistently (the Infant Optics was a little slower to connect...), voice activation is good, the talk function works well, etc.4. Form factor: I really like the compact size of the monitor. The camera is easy to adjust and is a nice size as well.5. Range: Range seems good so far! I walked around my entire house and didn't experience any drop-off in signal thus far.I will say, the video and audio quality isn't outstanding - not sure how it stacks up to similarly priced video monitors, but I expected a little better. I also wish the lens on the camera was slightly wider angle.Overall, this seems like a solid choice for a baby monitor!

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 Records audio also. Make sure to get a high speed micro SD card. Used Onn brand and unit froze up when recording. The 940nm IR is discreet and works well out to 50 yd. Documentation is a little lacking but I just spent a little while getting used to it and figured it out. I hunt at night and have 2 pellet guns. My Sightmark Wraith battery cover broke and I don't want to be without night vision so I got this. There's adapters for 3 sizes of ocular lens and it's easy to mount on 2 different scopes I tried. A lock pin keeps it attached to the collar and has a release button to remove it.As a handheld night camera you get a wide field of view. Then you can also use the bracket for piccatiny / weaver and mount directly on gun. The settings have different reticles and colors so I can use it as a scope directly. Using it as a scope directly is limited but works great to 30 yards. When using the night vision as a scope I had good results out to 30 yards but the IR is weak past that. I have another IR light too. When attached to a scope you can read the label on a soup can because you can zoom it up. The included rail is very good with high quality metal design. Everything runs from the single battery for over 8 hours daytime and 4 or 5 in night vision because of the IR lights.The WiFi app connected with my phone to allow control and picture/video transfer too. Even the red Lazer is good. Transfer to my computer was simply connected with a USB cable. I wish the Sightmark Wraith could do that and was able to do audio and had WiFi! I also have a video capture card and cable toconnect to the HDMI mini port and that worked too!Granted, Sightmark is a real good scope for your gun and this is just a handheld camera that is suitable for a pellet gun but is plastic. The ocular section is removable so you can see the screen with both eyes and with that attached there's an additional lens for the diopter change that snaps in that I use for wearing glasses.I'm going to keep it as a handheld camera for night time viewing and to attach to any of my rifle scopes.

I had heard good things about Explore Scientific, and this scope has not disappointed me. The image is very sharp, and there ar no signs of Chromatic Aberrations which are so common in cheaper scopes.I was most interested in how this scope would perform with a camera, specifically a full frame camera. And whether or not it needed a field flattener. I had looked at manufactures specs., and these topics were not covered. Looked at reviews, and again not covered.Attempt using scope with full frame camera without field flattener: I can see houses on a ridge about 2 miles away and it gave me a target where I could have a house in the middle and a house at the extreme sides. Carefully focusing on the middle house, I took a picture, and I found the houses on the sides were quite blurry. I tied focusing on one of the side houses, without as much success as the middle house, and the middle house went out of focus. So my conclusion is that the field is certainly not flat.I had purchased the Explore Scientific Field Flattener. My concern was whether or not it was wide enough for the full frame camera. It comes with a 2" barrel which then is reduced down to T adapter size (42mm). I would have preferred m48 which would have been slightly wider. I mounted the full frame camera and took the same picture of the houses on the ridge. The blurriness on the edges was about 90% improved. I still had a little, but it was almost gone. The quality of the image was actually stunning. It was far better then what I have seen on other scopes. There was a little bit of not quite vignetting in the 4 corners where the image was a bit darker, but the 42mm tube did not show round corners. I suspect that a 48mm tube would have been better, and I can adjust out the darker corners in post processing. A crop sensor camera would not be subjected to this problem.For this test, I had mounted the scope on a robust tripod which had a Gimball mount. It was able to handle the size and weight of this lens. Next, I will mount it on an equatorial mount and see how this scope does with stars and deep sky objects, which I am expecting it to perform very well.My conclusion is that this is a very good scope. When using a good eyepiece, the image is very good. And when using with a camera, it produces very good images. And I have to conclude that the field flattener is necessary. What I haven't checked out is how well it might do with a field flattener by some other manufacturer.

The SECRT Solar Powered Home Security Camera looks and feels solid, and of good build quality. I have had a few PTZ cameras, both PoE powered, and battery operated. The PTZ mechanism in this camera is virtually silent, and extremely smooth. Other cameras I have owned are noisier, with the gears and motors inside whirring and clicking. Whether this makes any difference or not I can't say. But I judge the components used in this unit are likely of higher quality. The camera is overall smaller than others I have owned, as well.The instructions are relatively good and complete. I do think the print is too small. I don't really understand this, as this trend is ubiquitous, particularly Chinese made equipment. It would cost cents to make the manuals larger and to have them professional edited for readability. The setup is pretty straight forward. Install the recommended App. I am installing on Android, so it was found on the Play Store. You register and set up an account. All was easy. The App is quite usable, better than most, when it comes to being intuitive and absent of clutter. The only minor complaint is that on the phone screen the text is a little too small and the contrast is not good when navigating the setup screens. There is black writing on a gray screen and blue writing on a light blue screen. On a phone with a small screen this might be hard to see. Once set up, the actual device operation screens are much better.The unit comes with a prepaid SIM card that should operate on AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon. When inserting the SIM the side with the contacts should be inserted away from the camera lens, corner notch end down. The instructions say to insert "The digital size towards the lens." That's didn't really make any sense and lead to some trial and error. I could not get the included SIM to register on a network. I tried a number of times and always ultimately received a red light - No connection. As a note, the very bright "flood lights" come on depending on the ambient inside light levels when the unit first boots up and will not go off until the setup is complete, or you push reset again. They are quite bright. I think they should be disabled until the camera is paired. I ultimately took the camera to the T-Mobile store and purchased a SIM. While I was there, where the network signal is very strong, I again tried the included SIM with no success. The new T-Mobile SIM worked immediately. I have no explanation why this is. I do know that AT&T and Verizon are both quite picky about the IMEI of a new device. They are quite overzealous as to excluding 2G and 3G devices on their networks, AT&T the most so. If the IMEI is not qualified on their system, something the manufacturers generally have to pay for, the phone or device is assumed to be 2G or 3G and will not be allowed to connect, often even if you call their customer service. No idea if that was the problem here or if this practice varies from region to region. T-Mobile has a much more international mentality and if the device will physically work it usually will. I will not deduct for the included SIM not working. I don't know why, and it was a freebie anyway.With T-Mobile it is considered a Hotspot. The data it will use depends on how much you look at it, or, if you choose to use the cloud storage option, how many times the camera is triggered to upload motion data. I will use the internal SD card option. I am not sure about this one. But most battery powered cameras time out and disconnect after a time if you attempt to monitor them continuously as this uses a lot of power.Once the SIM was working the balance of the setup was very easy. Just follow the steps, scan the device QR code and its up and running. I can say that it appears that the camera seems to show about one bar signal less than my phone shows and seems to disconnect correspondingly more easily in weak signal areas. The internal antennas on all devices and phones are always, by physical size constraints, less than optimum and their performance varies widely. So, by stating this I am not saying the device is sub-par. My phone I am comparing it to might be better than average.I like the interface and ease of use of the App. It's one of the better ones I have used. It is not as option rich as some. But most of those were WiFi cameras with full desktop web interfaces. The image quality of the camera is good. The PTZ controls work well. You can toggle the flood lights on or off. I turned them off. So, I have black and white night vision. I also turned off the connected indicator blue light, which is an option.My intended application for this camera is for a driveway gate camera, high up out the line of sight. I will make an L shaped wooden mount for it, which will cover the top of the unit against weather. You can buy a nice purpose made plastic one. But they are almost always birhg twhite and draw attention to the otherwise small camera. The install location is too far for me to reach with my WiFi and has no power. So, the 4G should be perfect. We are high on a mountain. So, it's gets cold and snowy there. I will report on the camera's performance under those conditions if there is anything notable as the seasons advance.Overall, this is a nice camera, of good build quality and well thought out. I will give it a solid five stars. If you need a 4G PTZ camera it is worthy of your consideration.

The first thing you notice is that this camera is a whole lot smaller than you thought it was going to be. Without the waterproof case it measures a diminutive 2.75 inches wide, and the 2 inch viewing screen covers almost the entire back of the camera.The camera ships without a memory card, so when you buy one I highly recommend at least a Class 10 Micro SD card. Any HD video camera deserves it. A slower card may not record HD video quick enough to prevent problems such as having your recording stop before you're ready or, worst of all, a slow card might result in data corruption and a camera lock-up. This could be the source of some bad reviews that mention the camera freezing up. Also, you ought to respect the Busy light and do not ask the camera to do anything else while it's saving a file. Just to be safe, there is a tiny reset button on the bottom of the camera. Hope you never have to use it, but it's a better choice than waiting for the battery to expire. So far, I've recorded about 90 minutes of video and plenty of still pictures without a glitch.Focus range is 120 cm (5 inches) to infinity, but in a pinch you can go in a whole lot closer, up to a half inch with useful results. The 4x zoom is digital, so it will always reduce detail if you use it. Get closer if you can, but if not, you can always crop the pictures when you get home. As for video, as soon as you zoom in you are no longer using 720 HD. My advice: Unless you have a compelling reason, I'd say to keep the camera set at highest resolution for both stills and video, and skip the zoom. For video you actually have two good choices: 720p HD at 30 frames per second, or in case you need to see sharper motion, there is also VGA at 60 fps. Files are saved in AVI format, and either setting will look and sound very good on YouTube and Facebook.The DVR850HD includes a bike mount with extra spacers, a strap-on helmet mount, a separate tripod mount and, of course, a waterproof enclosure which has its own a tripod mount. Some reviewers have griped about the helmet mount having a strap rather than glue, but I rather like being able to move the camera to a different helmet. Perhaps the most interesting feature is hidden behind the name Vehicle Mounted Mode. No, this is not an anti-shake feature; it's a honest-to-goodness dash-cam! In this mode it will continuously record forever until the battery runs out. Every five minutes the camera automatically saves, so you don't get enormous files. And, if the card fills up, the camera is smart enough to erase the oldest file first. So, for the reviewer who complained that the camera only records 5 minutes at a time: Take it off Vehicle Mounted Mode! I recently shot over 70 minutes of HD dash cam video on a single charge, and when the power got low the camera saved the final file and shut down in an orderly fashion. How big are the HD files? Seventy minutes consumed about 10GB. To save battery power, the camera powers itself off after 5 minutes of standby. If you are in dash cam mode the view screen turns off after a few minutes of recording and a red LED continues to let you know you the camera is still on. Despite the small size, Vivitar even found room to squeeze a teensy playback speaker into the package.My one disappointment is that this camera cannot shoot while on a charger. When it recognizes a plug in the USB port it assumes you are connected to a computer, and your only two choices will be to offload the pictures or start using the Vivitar as a web cam. That's a real disappointment because it would have been ideal to leave this camera plugged in as a dash cam and never worry about recharging it.What are the pictures like? Not bad. The center-weight exposure metering gets the job done and, thanks to a coated lens, the pictures show very good color and contrast. Don't expect vivid colors underwater, though. There are technical reasons why everything turns bluish, and your favorite TV shows spend thousands of dollars to make undersea colors look more natural.The package also includes the "Vivitar Experience Image Manager" on a mini CD. At 18 MB it looked innocent enough, but after it launched a download from the Vivitar site, the final program installation exceeded 120MB. It turns out that the Vivitar experience includes an expanded product manual, (in the language of your choice), plus a picture browser/manager program that finds all the pictures and videos on your PC. It also includes icons for uploading to your favorite social sites, and it lets you can order T-shirts and mugs or create a plain vanilla slide show or custom picture frames.One word of caution: Treat the buttons with respect. You don't want to smash them like one unfortunate reviewer did. Just press slowly until the camera responds, especially if you are operating the camera through the waterproof housing.I am giving this camera a high rating, not because it outperforms much more expensive cameras, but because it is an exceptional value in its price range. Store the camera in its waterproof box for protection and to keep the screen pristine.

I've had this camera set up and have used it for about a month. In summary, this is a fantastic budget option that has blown me away with all the features within the app and the crystal-clear video quality. Here's a list of pros & cons:For context, I've also owned and used the following cameras for both indoor/outdoor monitoring: Logitech C920 Webcam, EKACOM Webcam, Conico Security Camera, and a Ring Video Doorbell Pro and am comparing this Security Camera to those.PROS:> Video quality is excellent. Daytime is a bit better than night, but night vision is as good as it gets with cams. The app allows the user to switch between QHD, HD, and SD quality in situations where you might have poor internet collection.> The app is great. Very intuitive and feature-packed. Some features include screenshots, changing camera positions, manual lens switching, a built-in light, a siren, color mode changing, etc. I don't think that I even covered half with this list.> Extremely easy to move around. To add to the features list, being able to move the position of the camera via the app is super easy. A 4-way joystick allows quick and precise movement.> Tunable Motion and Audio detection. Having both options is incredibly useful and notifications can be sent right to your phone.> Local and Cloud video storage. I use a 128GB SD Card and have had no issues with saving recordings. The app allows the user to switch between the live feed and previously recorded videos at any time. They do offer a short trial with the cloud storage but I have not tried it.> Excellent 2-way audio. One of the best speakers I've heard on a camera. When I speak, the output actually sounds like me.> All cables, wall bricks, and mounting hardware are included.CONS:> Slow to connect sometimes. Sometimes when pulling up the video feed, I've found that I have to wait 5-10 seconds before the video is displayed as it connects. Not sure if it is just due to my internet/cellular connection but it happens sometimes.> I reached out to support but never heard back. I resolved my issues myself but I am not sure how the support team is for the product.OVERALL - Super high video quality and a feature-packed, easy-to-use app... Excellent price. I would recommend this to anyone in the market for a security camera.