Infant Optics Wide Angle Lens For DXR-8

We have three cameras - Here are my thoughts/conclusions Camera One (1) The night vision is horrible unless it is 4 to 5 feet MAX from the subject. (2) The wide angle lens progressively makes the camera get worse over time. (3) The wide angle lens is in no way for a room shot at night. Daytime yes, but if the room is dark you will not be able to see your children whatsoever. The frame around the camera is fuzzy from the moment the wide angle lens is put on the camera. (4) In order to get the camera to function WITHOUT the wide angle lens in a room where there are two beds, it should be up no higher than 4.5 feet and NOT attached to the wall. This does NOT give us a true wide angle shot, but we have to scroll from bed to bed. We can at least see our children to see if they are in bed and/or if their eyes are open. Camera Two (1) Night vision is fine because it is focusing on a white crib and directly over the crib. The distance is maybe 3 feet to the subject. The wide angle is also fine because its 3ft away from the subject, but I dont understand why anyone would want a wider shot of a crib when the one (non-wide angle lens) works totally fine for that. Camera Three (1) Night vision is fine because enough light creeps into the room. I filed a return on Amazon to return the wide angle lens which is absolutely useless to us. Im overall disappointed in the customer service (you get one instruction from one and one totally opposite from another), and the room view for camera one. If you are buying this system to look at cribs you will be fine. If you need it to look at two toddler beds, you will be disappointed like us. The only reason we are keeping it is because our home has plaster walls and its the best system in regards to range. (Like we can get a signal in every room of the house.) Anyways, I hope this review is helpful to you and saves you a month of time and effort.

Its cool could have better picture quality but I can see him both day or night it works best in a very sunny room but either way I have no complaints

The lenses that come with the camera were too zoomed in. The wide angle worked better.

10/10 recommend this pic is WITH the lenses

The ultra wide lense in nothing is clear at all. It’s better to stick with the original and pan around the room as needed.

Update: you can read my initial review below but here I am, two days in, I have to change my review to 1 star. The first day it was great- could see the whole room clearly. At night, the image was terrible! Super grainy. I didn’t change my review the first night because I thought I may have left a plastic protective film or something on the camera lens. Nope. The wide angle lens is just terrible at night. I wish I had read more reviews.... I will be trying to reAch the company and I’ll update if anything changes. Original review: We have had the camera for two years and have loved it, but when our daughter started wandering around the room at night we wanted something better. We looked at replacing the camera but felt that we should try this new lens before making a huge purchase – the best decision we made. This land let us see the entire room. The camera is up on a bookshelf about 7 feet off the floor-before we could just see her bed, and now we see almost everything. The old lens unscrews, and the new lens screws on. Couldn’t be simpler to swap out. Be careful – if this product comes in a package with several other items it might get lost end it comes in a very small 1” x 1” x 1” box. Again, we loved having this camera and are so glad that this lens will allow us to use this camera for a few more years.

Degrades the quality vs the normal lens. Its ok for daytime though

This is more if a software issue but if you use 2x or 4x zoom you cant move around the zoom, you can only move the physical camera. So if you want to zoom into the edge of the cameras frame, you cant

This is a must have for my family. We have twins and we are able to use one monitor and one camera for both cribs, side by side. I didnt notice any difference in quality over this lens and the regular lens, and you can still zoom in if necessary. We dont have this all the way to the ceiling, but if we put it all the way to the ceiling it would show the entirety of both cribs.

I wanted to be able to see more of my daughter’s room. This does great for that! I can see almost her entire room now. During the daytime it’s great, but the nighttime quality is absolutely horrible. But, at 2.5, I really only need to see a soft outline of her, so it’s fine. Just annoying.