This is an excellent PTZ camera. The camera immediately connected to my Elgato HD60 Pro HDMI capture card like it was Plug n Play. But there are two things you should know: 1. The manual provided with the camera is the typical 2nd year English student translation from Chinese to English. It is of limited value. Since the camera is essentially a direct clone of the PTZ Optics models PT30X-SDI-GY-G2 and PT30X-SDI-WH-G2 cameras, just go to the PTZ Optics web site and download the manual for these cameras. You will learn much more about the installation and setup process than you will ever learn with the manual that comes with the AVKANS camera. 2. The IR remote control only works if you point it at the FRONT of the camera. Since many users will be located at a position behind the camera you must do this: Buy an IR Extender cable (Amazon Cable Matters Infrared Remote Extender Cable, IR Repeater Cable - 25 Feet, or 10 Feet - whatever you need) so that the camera can be positioned with the front facing front. The IR Extender can then be installed to deliver the IR signal from the remote control to the front of the camera, and it will work fine. People controlling the camera with a serial joystick or an IP connection will not have to worry about this. I highly recommend this camera.

This is the second AVIKANS camera purchase. They seem to be the same high quality as other top brands with the same firmware features. Easy to program through the IR handheld remote and through the web interface. We are using these with the OBS software and NDI plugin, which work great. We use the AViPAS joystick controller using VISCA over IP to control camera movement. We are also feeding audio through the camera line-in input. No sync issues and good quality results. Tech support has been very quick and helpful in answering questions. Very pleased with the purchase.

After considerable research and viewing of many YouTube video reviews of various manufacturers of PTZ NDI cameras, we decided on the Avkans 30x NDI PTZ cameras for the streaming of our Church Services using vMix. A key factor was that they are officially approved by New Tek. We are using NDI Tools with the NDI Studio app on our Windows 11 PC with an external HDMI monitor as an extended display to view and adjust the camera shot and zoom for our Joystick’s preset calls. Our installation is Cat 6 cable and a POE switch for power and control of the cameras. The clarity of video is great from the Avkans cameras and our local network router. Our first purchase was the Avkans 30x NDI PTZ 2-camera bundle with the Avkans Joystick. We have added a third camera to our installation. The cameras are easy setup, have great picture quality and color. There are videos from Avkans on amazon.com item description/order page on Camera & Joystick setup. I did have a question, I contacted their support, the next morning I had a response and answer from Avkans. Very satisfactory considering the time difference between Arizona and China.

My church chose this camera to produce service broadcasts, and I was given the task of integrating the camera in with our network and OBS set up. I am not very tech savvy, but I did my best, and of course I screwed it up pretty bad (learn from my mistakes, do NOT update the firmware without consulting the AVKANS tech support first…I did this using the wrong firmware update from a different company and the camera no longer had an NDI license). It took the tech team quite some time to fix my mistakes, but they were very diligent and determined to get my system running properly. The tech support rep Jenny and the tech engineer Joe worked with me until we finally got everything working. The camera itself is very impressive. I and very happy with the image quality, the zoom capacity, and the NDI function of this camera. Just PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not be like me and try to integrate this camera into your existing OBS setup unless you really know what you’re doing. The tech team is so very helpful, just contact them and let them walk you through it. You’ll save yourself a ton of headaches. Trust me, I learned the hard way!

This camera is truly amazing, picture quality is far beyond whats expected at this price point, this is my 5th camera now.

Was having issues after a firmware upgrade and it said zoom focus error they was able to fix it and also helped me set ip NDI couldn’t ask for better help from them great choice to go with Avkans!

Great picture quality. Used the cameras for our church streaming system. Tech support was awesome.

No issues... implemented easily

Perfect set up for livestream and we just bought a 3rd camera from them and it matched. Works great upside down too. Mounts work well. We did POE for all three.

I purchased a total of six of these cameras. I had two which were missing the NDI software. Tech support was very attentive on making sure the issue was solved. Even did it on their own time to make sure it was taken care of quickly. All six cameras are running NDI and working great. I would recommend and purchase again.