GooDee Portable Borescope Inspection Camera Handheld Automotive Extension 2.4" LCD Monitor Digital Vedio Endoscope Camera W/ 6 LEDs 8.5mm Diameter 1M Waterproof Tube

This is a nice, straightforward piece of kit that works well. The paper instructions are not brilliant but thankfully it doesn't really need any explanation. I bought the 5 metre length cable version because I didn't realise there was a shorter one at 2 metres! For most domestic purposes I would think the 2 metre one is going to be quite long enough and, frankly, I can't imagine how you would control the direction and position of the camera if it was 5 metres away down a hole when you are pushing on a flexible cable. All in all, very useful and good value for the price. a useful piece of equipment to have around the house.

I bought this for a specific job which I have only just finished. As it was for a small archaeology group, there were two specifications that were of primary importance. It had to work, but it had to be cheap as I would be buying it for them.While the head is a little longer than I would have preferred, the cable part was flexible enough, once warmed up, to allow it to thoroughly investigate the underside of a stationary engine mounting block at a small industrial archeology site, allowing us a view of the seatings for it that we could never have got otherwise without destroying them. The main camera unit is fine, as is the software it comes with, but the attachments (mirror, hook, magnet) are a little flimsy for archaeological use even though we were (slowly) able to recover a pair of glasses that some mill worker had lost around 70 years ago. The lead archeologist was so pleased that he bought it off me for use in other parts of the dig.I recommend this device for anyone who needs to investigate a small hole, or area that you just can't get a normal camera into, but can't bjustify the expense of a professional rig.

Well this was a mistake. I've been trying to trace cables and pipes in our house, and thought this would be useful to find out what's above ceilings and under floors. Sadly it's been no help at all.Here are the problems:1 The cable is flexible. So you need to tape the camera firmly to the end of a rod of some sort if you're going to push it more than a couple of centimetres into a hole.2 The camera is VERY low quality. I remember long ago seeing terrible underwater shots taken by people trying to find Nessie in muddy, murky waters - that's what it's like even looking across a brightly lit room with this camera. Imagine trying to use it in a dark ceiling space....3 The brightness of the LEDs - even on their brightest setting - won't let you see more than about 20cm in a dark space, given the sensitivity of the camera. So it doesn't matter if the camera can focus on anything further away, because there isn't enough light.Also - and this isn't the fault of the manufacturers - it can be very disorientating using this type of camera. You lose all sense of direction when the round camera is rotating it as you push it into the ceiling space.Other features that people may be interested in:- The LED brightness is adjusted using a knob on the side of the USB plug, where it fits into your computer. It's not very sensitive - little more than 'on' and 'off'.- It can be used with a Mac. Ignore the disk that some with it, and download Quickier from the App Store. It works fine.

First of all, build quality seems OK. cable is very long and LED's are bright. I could not use the provided software for lack of CD drive. The camera is plug and play with Windows 8.1 (I used the camera app).The picture quality is clear and sharp but there is a problem: everthing needs to be within 2 inches of the camera. I purchased this device because I am trying to find the source of a leak. This is in the roof space between the floor above and the ceiling in my bathroom. Not exactly oceanic size cavern and I could not get any other size camera into the space (my only access is a drop light I can remove, maybe 2 inches accross). The camera simply does not focus on anything that is more than 3 or 4 inches away, this seems not to be mentioned.I guess this device is perfect for finding grannies lost ring down a 2 inch diamter pipe but not much else.Overall, it is a USB powered water proof camera and it works, but its just not what I was expecting.

Although the product did have good picture quality . The second time I used it, the camera itself snapped in half from a very very light tip off a something.

A very good little tool, even though it's not HD, and superb value. I bought it to check some underfloor wiring for suspected mouse damage without having to lift the whole floor, but I can see it having many more uses around the house. I didn't use the software that came with it - it didn't seem to recognise the camera - but I downloaded ISpy (free software) which worked straightaway - both on my old Vista laptop and my W7 desktop.As someone has pointed out, the cable is quite flexible and can't be used to push the camera along, or to point it accurately. I bought a cheap cable access kit - a set of foot-long mini-rods that screw together - and taped the camera & cable to it. This worked well enough for moving the camera in a more-or-less straight line, but wouldn't work so well if the access is more complicated.I didn't find that the camera overheated at full brightness - but I did notice that if I turned the LED's down below full, it warmed up quite quickly - so perhaps the heat is caused by the dimmer circuit rather than the lights themselves.

The basic item works well under Linux, just plug it in and view with Cheese. When you change resolution you will have to restart Cheese to get a picture.I have used it to locate a blockage in a central heating pipe and will be using it to inspect a steam loco boiler.The accessories are a bit flimsy but for the price it is good value.