Review for AVKANS camera The AVKANS Camera is a great camera. It has very sharp and detailed features. The video and picture show very well. The support for the camera is great as well. I would like to thank Jenny AV for all the help with setting up the AVKANS Camera to work with OBS Studio software. Jenny AV got it working very fast with no problems! Thanks again Jenny AV for all of your help!!!! -- Dwayne Cox Macedonia Ministries Worship Center

AI Tracking works very good and the camera replaced me having to do all the manual work.

Bought two cameras and we are looking to get two more! Quality and customer service has been great. Affordable and effective.

I purchased the AVKANS PTZ 30X for board and staff meetings at my job. It is truly a game changer! Smooth PTZ, a variety of connections, easy to set up and easy to use. I use the AVKANS joystick to control the camera over my network -- and setup and discovery was so easy. Ive already purchased a second AVKANS camera to add to my setup. Price is great too -- and the camera is just as good as the one I paid 5 times for in our conference room, but this one is portable! I am recommending that our church purchase this set up for our livestreaming. Very happy with this purchase!

Update 4/29/2022 After some assistance through remote support I am happy to update my review back to five stars. Furthermore I learned that you can remotely start and stop auto tracking by clicking 80 and 81 on my joystick call buttons. Both cameras seem to work at 100%. There was only one issue I am not sure if it was fixed but I am hopeful it was fixed with firmware update. Update-3/31/22 Bought a second camera and then mounted them and all of a sudden the auto tracking ceased to work correctly on both of them and the last purchased camera freezes mid stream almost at regular intervals. Using NDI on both of them and that correlates with the issues beginning but when testing the old way it still would not auto track which is the greatest let down. I demoted two stars because of these issues and also not finding any Support for updating these cameras. They still function as a great PTZ camera except the one has issues with the light being in line of the eye and making everything color washed. I control both cameras remotely using the Super Joystick by PTZ Optics. The NDI Function is awesome as I only need one POE Ethernet cable to have power video and control! Just bought this camera for use in a Church and so far it is amazing. Pre purchase considerations: I was hesitant to spend upwards of 2 or three times the amount on similar products just for ai Auto tracking features. And I was a little worried that the 20x optical zoom being able to cope with the 50 ft distance I would be needing it for as well as the ai auto tracking working like it should be. After a couple of weeks of use I am blown away at the possibilities and quality that this is over the prior cameras we had, none of which were ptz cameras. This camera is perfect for lower entry into the PTZ world with auto tracking capabilities. It takes a bit of research to figure out how to make it work how you want it to but for me it has been enjoyable. Pros: Price $1500 is a bargain compared to more heard of competitors (heard it used to be cheaper... So wish I had found this product back then!!) Works well with PTZOptics Joystick and live streaming. Cons: Software is a little backwards (Make sure to set the miniscule board under the camera to Menu in order to utilize the Software in changing camera settings - Lost a lot of time trying to figure that out.) and directions were a bit sparse for setting up. Remote control that comes with it is almost worthless because it barely registered in front of camera and unresponsive behind it.

How do you locate the camera/s IP Address? The remote sent with the camera does not have a * or # key for *#4...

Very happy with this camera for my church and also customer service was great on helping me set it up. I highly recommended for people who are starting there new Ptz services.

I had this camera for work but was unable to use it for a ZoomRoom. This camera is great and works as advertised, but we were unable to use it as intended because it does not support PTZ over USB. Our ultimate goal was to use the camera in a ZoomRoom, but we were unable to control the camera from the rooms iPad controller because the camera did not support PTZ over USB. However, this is an excellent low-cost PTZ camera with very good zoom!

Lens zoom is excellent for the small church. The PTZ function is near silent. Using with a joystick set to slowest speed, you can see steps when panning. The autofocus sometimes freaks out but not often. We usually click the joystick manual focus button to prevent that from happening. Using HDMI output to an ATEM simultaneously an ethernet connection to joystick with a display. Configuration was no too terribly difficult, but the instruction booklet was wonky and not exactly correct. We are powering this camera with a POE switch to reduce cable count. Overall, we are very satisfied with this camera.

camera is used in church setting and it is the answer to our prayers. picture is great