2MP 0.01Lux Webcam Varifocal 5-50mm Lens Zoom USB Camera

This is a hard review to write. I've decided to give it 5 stars throughout because it does what it's supposed to. But it's not without faults. The primary fault is that it doesn't deliver its advertised 8k imagery without a lot of intervention, and the resulting images are not useful because the format seems to be incompatible with recording software so the results are distorted to match my screen. As other reviewers have mentioned, the colour is poorly saturated, necessitating a lot of configuration in post. The lens is very basic indeed as one might expect at this price point. There is about 90 degrees of rotation in the focus ring. But that's not your range of focus. It's needed because the range of focus at the long end of the zoom is in a very different place to the focus at the wide end. So zooming while recording is not possible, it would throw the focus wildly off. And there is no possibility of auto focus since there is no link from photo sensor to the lens mount.But, for £80 what is reasonable to expect? This is clearly a specialist product offering manual control over a USB camera. If you want a logitech then by all means go that way. But if you want to be in control.....

(I'm reviewing the 1080p H.264 0.01lux webcam)I've been trying this out for a few days - it took me a while to get sorted because this camera definitely needs a decent stand (no realistic way to bodge-fix it to the top of your monitor like there is with normal webcams). Once done, getting it zoomed and focussed just the way you want takes a bit of doing too because it's all manual, and you're likely to have to sit a little distance away from it, but that's hardly difficult to deal with. FWIW, I've got my camera on a stand about a feet behind my monitor, and angled so that its view "skims" over the top of the monitor).Once connected to the computer, you get a pretty nice picture - not actually as sharp as it might be. It's hard to compare, but my Logitech C920 probably has a better picture. However, the reason I went with this camera is because of the zoom and consequent depth of field. The Logitech had me looking quite small, with lots of my room on show. Now, using almost no zoom at all, I'm on video calls as head and shoulders only, much less of my room on show and the background is slightly out of focus (so possibly a little less distracting for viewers?).I paid a little more for this particular model (although right now it's on a limited deal to be the same price as the others) because I wanted it to work in low light. Most cameras struggle in low light and it's hard to light yourself sufficiently well at home (unless you go big into lights), so I thought maybe a low light camera would compensate for my lack of pro lighting. Honestly, it really doesn't at all - without bright lights, it's definitely a bit "dim", even with the aperture wide open. I get the feeling the camera has no in-built processing (others definitely do - in an attempt to make them look better), and the output of it responds well to some "brightness" adjustment on the computer.One thing to note is that there is no "on" light on this camera, so it's hard to know if it's working without seeing the actual video stream. There's also no light you could use as a tally light, if that's something you need.All said and done though, this does a decent job of being a webcam for video calls. I'm not sure I'd use it for making high quality video, although it has got miles of zoom, so it might find uses in bigger halls or whatever. It's good, good enough for me for sure, but it's not awesome - but for the price, it's competing with the likes of the "webcam" market, not pro video.

The good:* zoom lens allows you to adjust what is visible if you use this camera for video calls* you can get nice blurry backgrounds if you open up the aperture* you can get quite close up images with the lens* you can replace he lens* works out-of-the box under LinuxThe bad:* colours are under-saturated and washed out (see picture of reference chart vs what it should look like)* a center circle is more yellowish (seen also in other review)* it do not think it is the lens, because I could the same effect without lens and with photo camera lens* I tried painting the inside of the vamera black (covering brass elements, etc.) to exclude any weird reflections, but did not help* unclear what is causing this; maybe the the filter glass on the sensor??TLDR; good if you want a manual lens to play with, but it is a no-go if you care a lot about colourModel review: ELP-USB8MP02G-SFV

Bought to put on top of the TV for improved zoom meeting quality over the camera built into the laptop. Being able to zoom the frame was important to me - and it does that... But basically I got almost no image at all unless the aperture was 100% open, and even then it was pretty poor unless I had all the lights on in the room on full brightness. And then the colours... Dreadful - really washed out and dull. Bottom line is that the titchy camera on the laptop gives me a much better picture with brighter colours, and it works in low light. This camera is really not worth the money so it's gone back.

I wanted a replacement webcam for Zoom/Teams meetings, and this does the job very well. As the camera is "plug and play", and having the ability to adjust the aperture, zoom and focus means that I can position the camera for optimal image capture. The image quality is much better than my laptop's built-in camera, and the overall experience is more professional.

We are now live streaming our Church services via Zoom. We already had a camera which showed about half of the front of the church. This was bought as a second camera for close up shots of the person preaching. The telephoto is good, the camera, sitting on the sound desk at the back of the church, can be zoomed in to give a good close up shot of the speaker at the lectern. The zoom and focus are very sensitive, it takes some fiddling to get it just right. The colour is hugely inferior to our other low priced but fixed lens camera. A little pricey but, overall a decent solution to our needs.