one great feature of this cam is that it has an ...
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though I have not yet used this extensively, I quickly noticed that this has the same lens as my sony action cam. one great feature of this cam is that it has an app you can download for IOS and Android. Another thing is the little monitor at the back, which is comparable to the more expensive GoPro. The water-proof case is tight and secure. It came with several attachments, sticky pads and cleaning cloth. I will update this review as soon as I have used it more extensively.
2304565
The web cam is one of the easiest to use and quality of the picture is really good. It has a lot of features that a common person may not use. Definitely a good buy.
2535077
I bought this webcam to skype with my family, now that I have just moved to a new place. My parents love the audio and video quality of this webcam, and my dad even wants me to order one for him (he doesn't have an Amazon account). I think the picture quality and the ability to capture motion is pretty decent for this camera, although I'm sure there are better ones. Nevertheless, the bang-per-buck for this webcam I think is great, which is what most casual users like myself are looking. The special effects for this webcam is kind of cool at first, but they get old fairly quickly. This, however, is not a concern at all for me.

This webcam is plug and play, but I noticed that the picture sometimes lag and shake when I use it the first time. After searching and installing its newest driver, the webcam works flawlessly.
1314787
We've had several game cameras over the years, and usually have one running somewhere on the farm.  We feed the deer and I like to see photos of the wildlife that visit the feed stations.  I keep an eye out for problem animals like foxes, coyotes or loose dogs around my chicken house.  And we also like to know if any humans are snooping around when we're not home, or hunting on our posted land.

This Amcrest camera is both good and bad when compared to the Primos cameras we have.  I like that it's small and camouflage-colored to blend with the tree we hung it on.  I liked the idea of a remote (came with a button battery) to set the various settings on the camera, and the secure strap that adjusts easily.  I also like that it's waterproof - we gave it a good test since we've had rain for weeks.

This camera takes good day shots, and does ok at night - not as crisp or bright as the Primos cameras we own.  The video mode worked well, but again not as crisp as the Primos and it didn't see as far.  It picked up sounds in the videos, which we've never had with other camera - it was cool to hear the raccoons crunching on the corn and crickets chirping.

We set it up last night and got a few photos of raccoons eating.  The deer stayed in their beds because it was cold and rainy.  We also got a photo of one of the barn cats passing by, and a very mysterious series of three photos of a string of lights.  We can't figure out what those are!  See my attached photos.

Overall I give this camera four stars.

Good Features:
- easy setup of time, date, photo quality, length of videos, etc, with remote (be sure to read the instruction manual)
- uses your own SD card, so pick one with at least 8 G of memory
- waterproof and with gasket in the battery flap
- strong, easy to adjust strap for hanging
- adjustable camera angle with bracket on back of camera
- wide lens view
- infrared for night photos and video
- 1 yr warranty
- comes with mini-USB to USB cord for transferring photos to computer
- takes 3 photos and one 10-second video every time the camera detects motion
- camera allows user to install a password for protection of photos

Average/Bad Features:
- battery/SD compartment is on the bottom and hard to get to once camera is installed on a tree
- night photos aren't as clear or bright as other cameras we've owned
- night video doesn't "see" as far as our other cameras
- uses 4 or 6 AA batteries, which don't last as long as the D batteries our other cameras use
- number on keypad on remote don't seem to do anything towards camera settings
- A/C charger cord not included (for use with rechargeable batteries)

I received a complimentary Amcrest digital game camera for testing and review purposes. I wasn't asked to leave a positive review, nor was I paid or otherwise compensated for reviewing this product. Look at the hundreds of reviews I've written over thirteen years and you'll see that I work hard to give an honest opinion of the products I review.
3484655
<div id="video-block-RCDSFKG55NDKZ" class="a-section a-spacing-small a-spacing-top-mini video-block"></div><input type="hidden" name="" value="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/D1xMMnElcXS.mp4" class="video-url"><input type="hidden" name="" value="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91h4998ik5S.png" class="video-slate-img-url">&nbsp;If you are looking for a dash cam, this is a great one to consider. It does everything it advertises and does it well. However, it does have some downsides like no GPS, short battery life and automatic recording...which starts recording the second you turn it on. It could be minor for some but I do wish it had a record button to start it when you're ready! Other then that, if you can get past those few downsides - this is a great buy! Image quality is fantastic, the build quality is great and it is super easy to use. Check out my full video review to see it in action!
1123549
First of all, this camera has lots of pluses. It is fully PoE compatible, I plugged it into my TrendNET PoE switch and it just worked. Camera powered up, and I was able to configure it quickly & easily. It's also fully compatible with Blue Iris software, if you're wondering. The vandal-proof dome is a great feature, I love that I don't have to worry about anyone messing with the camera itself. Finally, the resolution is phenomenal. All my other IP cams are 2MP/1080p, and the step up to 3 megapixels is amazing. I can make out facial details and read license plates of cars in my driveway at much longer distances. And the infrared performance is amazing - I can see people & critters just fine out to a few dozen yards from the camera at night.

The only complaints I have with the camera are with its installation and its adjustability. Physically mounting this one can be a little more fussy than with other Amcrest cams - the camera has to be disassembled and putting it all back together once it's mounted (up on a ladder, trying to deal with Allen wrenches and tiny screws, etc...) can be a bit of a challenge. That said, this may well be the case for all of these dome-type cameras, and I may be unfairly complaining about something endemic to this camera design (i.e. this may well not be just an Amcrest issue, and since the dome was a requirement for me I might better stop...). And it's a minor issue at most.

The adjustability is another issue. It's hard to describe or understand until you have the camera in hand, but this camera is kind of limited as to how & how much you can adjust it. The "eye" of the camera can be rotated around the up/down axis - think of a line going from the bottom of the dome up through the top of the base, as the camera is pictured - the camera can rotate around this line, giving you full left/right adjustability. And there is some adjustability in one other plane, based on the way the camera is bracketed to the base. But that second degree of adjustability is fairly limited. In my installation, I have the camera mounted outside my garage door, monitoring a parking pad outside the garage and my driveway (~80yd long). I adjusted the camera with as much "downward" angle as it will allow, as well as dropped it below the edge of the roof as much as possible (using metal conduit). However, I still get too much sky and too little ground, for my taste (if that makes sense). The only way I can figure out this could be overcome would be to mount the camera body itself at a downward angle, but it's difficult to do that when you're dealing with conduit and junction boxes (i.e. pieces that are pretty much limited to 90deg angles). Another possibility would be to mount the camera "sideways", as the firmware does allow you to rotate the camera feed & image (only possible hitch I can see here is whether or not that would mess up the infrared performance, as the lamps are all clustered on one side of the lens). More range in the up/down adjustment plane would have been much more ideal for me. That, or a ball-type camera with dome - but when I purchased Amcrest didn't offer anything like that. All that said, it's still a great camera.

None of these complaints are deal-breakers, mind you. Given the chance, I'm pretty sure I'd still get this one. But it's the only Amcrest camera I've gotten where I've thought they might have fallen just a bit short of the mark.
2548012
I recieved this cam as described in the offer. After two weeks of usage I can say its aceptable quality for the price. It only works with the delivered power-cable (car-plug to usb) in the car. It does not work with the delivered usb to pc cable (needs more power than my usb-port or a usb-charger delivers).
It records the two cams at the same time. The front-cam records in Full-HD in directory VIDA and the back-cam records in VGA in directory VIDB on the SD-card. I use it with the Samsung 32GB EVO Class 10 card. Its about 50 MB per minute for the front-cam and about 16 MB per minute for the back-cam. The quality of the videos is good at daylight and at night you see only something inside the city, outside more the less nothing. Sometimes there is a small time-difference of one or two seconds between the frontcam- and the backcam-videofile.
There is no night-vision (did not expect this for the price) and also no GPS-option as described in the text. I switched off all the sensors as I want continuous recording.
3011646
good cam both front and back, IMO, it would be much better if the screen was a tad bigger and it swiveled,,,,,
4549124
This Dash Cam is very small and can fit in a small pocket.  I loved the sharp and clear quality of video and images.  Product feels well made and solid.  The Dash Cam powers up every time you startup your car if it is connected.  This is very convenient if you leave it connected.  Another great feature this camera has is motion detection.  If you leave camera on when you park your car, it will capture images of moving objects closing in on your car.  The one thing that I am not crazy about is the way the camera is mounted.  It has a windshield glue mount that the camera attaches to, but the camera itself is hard to detach from windshield mount.  This makes it hard to take off camera if you don't want to leave camera  for preying eyes when you walk away from your car.  You can use a regular suction mount which you can easily take camera off.  I have taken 1 star off for the mount issue.  Otherwise, this is a great camera for the price.
3618902
I've had this camera about a week now. It has a great picture. This is my 3rd Foscam camera, so I was familiar with the wireless set up to my computer. I did set this one up with the Foscam app. It was an easy setup and I had no problems with the app. I use Blue Iris software on my computer so I use that primarily on my computer and on myandroid phones and Ipad. The only thing I didn't care for was the adjustment of the camera after mounting it. I would have rather been able to raise/lower or go side to side in one step. This isn't really a big deal but it was a little challenging loosening the different allen screws for all the adjustments and it was back and forth. Just seems a little more difficult than it needs to be. I have a street light nearby and I just leave the camera on its normal setting. There's enough light from the street light that I have a beautiful picture in the dead of night with out turning on the night vision. Overall one week in, I'm very happy with it.
1109036
Overall happy with this purchase. I'm a Amazon FanBoy and was a little disappointed with the cams at first. Initially there was no way to turn off mic (THATS SINCE BEEN ADDED AS A FEATURE) and there was no way to turn off night vision (THATS SINCE BEEN ADDED AS A FEATURE). Only one cam would record and give me notifications (THATS SINCE BEEN CORRECTED WITH AN UPDATE) and now I get a view of my front yard, my back yard and the interrior of the house, with notifications and recordings. The included 'cloud' USB plug was a little big, so i used an extra one from one of my past iPhones, and it works great along with being slimmer. You can pan in/zoom in on the view, thats a plus. The zone feature is nice, we live by a road and I can block out notifications/recordings with the zone feature. I do have a feeling that with more updates that functionality will improve.
23292
This is the best web cam I have seen yet. It is strudy, well build, and has great picture quality. The face tracking feature is cool, but we don't use it that much. I like the easy to use on screen controls and my kids like Skype chats with grandparents.
933611
Really great dash cam. The video quality it great, better than i expected at this price. The only problem ive had is the mounting point, where the suction cup mounts to the camera is a bit flimsy. It broken on me but did manage to fix it with some glue. Other than that its small enough to hide behind my rear view
4897760
The features included with this dash cam our the best I've seen for dash cam use.  (If GoPro's had some of the continues recording features this device had, I would go with them instead.)

I also like the live streaming feature.  Which produces live 1920p video back to your device.  I tried it out with my iPhone and the video quality looks amazingly good and latency is fairly low (about a second or less).  Great way to monitor something if you had to.

However the live streaming only works in local connection mode which requires you to connect to the device's own hotspot.  Which means your device (my iPhone in my case) has no internet connection while connected to the device.  Which is also the method used to configure the device.  I would have been much more pleased if the app could connect to the device over my home network.  I really see no reason why it couldn't (on most WiFi networks that don't block devices from seeing each other) since I had to configure the device with my home WiFi password to get the "internet" mode to work, but no such feature is offered.

There is a "Internet" mode as well, but like other reviewers have experienced it's a terrible experience that never seems to work right.  Even when connected the "live video" keeps timing out and you never get an image beyond the timeout icon. The local mode is pretty much the only option.  Which works real well, but like I said above your device cannot be connected to the internet while also connected to the device, so you have to juggle on and off WiFi networks to manage the dash cam. (For example after you are done on your phone/tablet you have to exit the App and remember to go to WiFi networks and forget the device connection, otherwise your phone/tablet will be without an internet connection)

But, that's not my biggest gripe with the camera.  My biggest issue is that the Micro USB port on the device seems to be off spec for what's required by most micro USB cables.  It seems to be a deeper port and the (obnoxiously long 9 foot) micro USB cable provided has a longer tip than usual for micro USB cables.  See my attached picture.  The tip of the cable provided is longer, not by much, but it must make a difference.  I took the time to wire my vehicle with a nice HTC micro USB cable that fit well for my application.  However to my disappointment, after a few hours the device had turned off.  I turned it on and the device had 100% power.  This issue repeated itself over and over.  I finally removed the device from my vehicle and took it back home.  After trying four other cables I found that only the factory provided cable would keep the device on all the time. (Spent days proving this out)  I've never had any issue like this with any other devices with the cables I tried using.  For a dash cam that's meant to be on all the time just in case you need it, it's unacceptable in my opinion for the device to have issues staying on (even with 100% power!).  Using the bundle micro USB cable is your only choice if you want the device to stay on longer than a few hours.
732816
I was searching for a good cam for monitoring my house indoor/outdoor and found this product.

A unique feature of this product is the fact that you don't have to buy SD memory cards for recording.  The recording is stored on-line and you can watch it with your browser.  I worried about the security at first but the worries disappered when I knew the site says the security level is almost as same as that used in banks.

The recording is stored on-line for 24 hours for free and if you pay a small extra charge, you can extend it to 3 to 30 days.

When I watched recording with my browser, I noticed 2 or 3 sec delay, but it is not a big problem for monitoring.

This has nightcam mode and also sends voices bidirectionally.

This perfectly matched my demand and I am totally satisfied.
635970
We bought this camera to check in on our dog during the day and are not disappointed. We had been using a webcam and skype for our precious setup so this is a huge improvement.
The pros: fair quality video, you can aim it around the room using your smart phone, it has night vision (this has come in handy for those days when it's overcast and gloomy, and will come in handy for winter when the days here are really short), it connects itself to the wifi, you can reset the camera if it freezes on you (no waiting to do it manually when you get home), you can record right in the app if there's something going on that you want to save, you can set motion sensors that save a pic and/or notify you when it senses motion, but since this is to watch our dog, I had to turn that notification off because it was saving tons of pictures.
Cons: sometimes if it freezes or the internet or power goes out and it needs to reconnect, we have found that it takes a while for it to actually get online. The green light blinks on the camera but you can't see the camera connected on your phone for several minutes; the motion sensor must be very sensitive because it would take pictures of nothing during the middle of the night when we had that feature turned on. I got a little creeped out because well, it sensed motion at all hours of the day and night (yikes 3am = Paranormal Activity situation) and snapped a picture of nothing, but I just shut off notifications and automatic recording.
If you're looking for a reasonably priced camera with a ton of features and fair-good quality, try this one.
2206622
Great cam. I find that the Tenvis smart phone app does a better job of remote monitoring and cam management. Download the app per instruction and use it that instead. HD quality is impressive and cam movement is precise and smooth.

One Con: night vision is a bit disappointing hence 4-stars! But I can live with that for the price!