H.264 USB Camera 0.01Lux Low Light 1080P 30fps Manual Zoom with 2.8-12mm CS Zoom Lens for PC Laptop Windows Android Linux MacOS

Bought two. One worked about a week. The other is doing fine.

Out of the box, this camera looked great and I was anxious to try it out. The nice little square housing is compact with a standardized screw mount. The camera was super easy to install and use on a Windows 10 machine, as Windows automatically installed an appropriate driver immediately after plugging it into the USB port. I first started by comparing it to the 16 year old Logitech C920 webcam I have on the same machine. The quality of the image in the same exact lighting condition were dramatically different, and not in a good way. The old Logitech webcam looked vastly superior. There was an odd visible rolling banding which is noticeable in my attached example photo. The image quality was poor and not clear despite manual adjustments to the aperture, focal length, and focus settings. Highly disappointing.

This camera is able to keep a decent framerate even in a low light environment. The image quality is nice, but you'll want a mount for it, it accepts standard tripod heads. It has manual physical adjustments for the aperture, focus, and zoom. It was plug and play on Windows 11 and I have had no issues with it. It comes with a lens cap to protect the lens (and your privacy). Overall this is a nice camera, but I wish it came with a basic mount.

As someone who works in modern digital video production AND also owns and appreciates a lot of vintage/analog/film camera gear, I was really excited to try this out. Having a self-contained USB-capable camera that affords manual control over zoom/focus/aperture can affort a lot of creative opportunities that other, traditional webcams would not.In that sense, it's pretty fun. This camera does have a small sensor and a relatively small number of megapixels compared to a lot of high-end modern digital cameras, and as-shipped, things like ISO are handled automatically. So, depending on your lighting setup, you can either get pretty decent looking footage, or footage that has a lot of grain/noise/color shift.I was especially excited to try mounting other lenses on this, as I suspected that it used a standard C-mount. While it does indeed use a C-mount, the flange distance of the supplied lens seems to be much longer than any other c-mount lens in my vintage lens collection, and I wasn't able to find another lens that would focus or function correctly on this camera as-is... which is kind of a bummer. I assume it's probably possible, if I could adapt my vintage lenses to the correct distance from the sensor. We'll see.In short, this would not be a great camera for someone who wants a simple, foolproof webcam for videoconferencing, streaming, etc. There are other, better (simpler) options for that at comparable price points.This would absolutely be a great camera for someone who understands/wants/needs features like manual aperture/zoom/focus and wants those features in a USB-capable cam.

When I saw this camera listed on Amazon I thought to myself, "Now there's a real camera." It was black, and had the focus, zoom, and brightness dials on the lens. Sorry to say that I have been spoiled by phone cameras. There is no microphone in the QILOVE, and it does none of the things in terms of saving, editing, and so forth that my phone can do. So the fallback here would be to use it as a security camera, but with a 3 meter cord (nearly ten feet) it is easier to just look out the window. I'll leave this to greater minds than mine to find a use for this.

I had no problem getting my MacAir or my Windows laptop to recognize this camera. I did have some difficulty attaching it to a tripod. The threaded sockets- there are 1/4-20 threaded holes top and bottom- are very shallow, and wouldn’t allow me to attach the Arca-type plates on my Bogen and Manfrotto tripod heads. I had to use an older Gitzo head with a screw/lock nut system. That’s a minor complaint, but something you should be aware of.Image quality was good with the supplied lens. Light sensitivity is very high. There’s no electronic auto-iris, so adjustment can only be done manually at the lens. The lens itself is a typical CCTV-type zoom, with lock screws that double as adjustment levers for zoom and focus. Aperture is more difficult to adjust, as there’s no lever, and no lock screw. I plan on using my camera primarily as a microscope camera, so the lens of of secondary importance to me.The price is a bit high, relative to other 1080p cameras with similar lenses, but not excessively. A decent camera at a reasonable price.

This camera fills a useful niche. It's got more user control (zoom, focus and aperture) than any webcam I've seen, it's more compact and more versatile than any POE IP cams I've seen, it's quite small given its functionality, and it's reasonably priced. Its picture is sharp and the colors are rich and true.Because it's anchored to a USB port it's not as flexible in use as a phone or a DSLR. Also, changing its manual controls takes some time. Nothing about the controls is automated. Even so I've got a great use for it and will probably be getting more. I have a need to be able to set up a decent camera, set its zoom, focus and aperture, and then leave it for extended periods of time. This camera meets that need very well. Its power/data connections are USB, as noted. If it were POE it would be perfect. But I'll deal with the USB.I've attached a screenshot of an image from this camera. It's taken from the camera app in Windows 11. The scene is backlit through the window in the background. Even so, everything on my desk is captured well, and you can read the Epson label on my printer nine feet away. The zoom is mostly backed off in this shot. Quite impressive.