Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Excellent image quality at 1080P, and fluid 30 fps. It has good FOV, and great night vision distance and clarity. The software is good as well. I've tried a cheaper 1080P cam that had atrocious software, that rendered the cam practically worthless. Pan and tilt is smooth and precise, and the speed can be adjusted. You can also set preset positions, so you can pan around and click your home preset to go back to its normal poistion, so you don't have to keep resetting your detection zones. I have a tree in my front yard that would trigger false alerts constantly on windy days. I can just eliminate it from the detection area to prevent that. Though this camera is really intended for use as an indoor camera, I have mine mounted outside upside down beneath the eaves at my front door. It's replacing a Foscam FI9816P 720P camera, which is now moved to cover my back door. The Foscam FI9816P has worked flawlessly for years outside all year around in the cold of winter, strong winds whipping horizontal rain at it, and the heat of summer. (I did have to put electrical tape over the vents on the bottom of the FI9816P to prevent water getting in. The Amcrest has no such vents on the bottom, so it should be fine.) The software allows you to invert and flip the image, so what you see is right side up. The motion detection is excellent, and the utility allows you to set the sensitivity and detection area, so that you can minimize false alerts. I have mine set to send snapshots to my email on video motion detection, and it also records video to the micro SD card. This way I can keep track of all who drive or walk by, anyone who pulls into my driveway, packages being delivered, or when the mailman has left me something, or driven by with nothing for me. The playback feature in the browser utility works great, and makes it easy to view the recorded clips on the SD card from your PC. The sound quality of the built in mic is good and quite sensitive. I'd been waiting a while for a 1080P IP camera to slip below the $100 price point, and when this one went on sale for $84.99 on Amazon, I nabbed it! The only drawback is the Amrcest software only seems to work with Amcrest cameras. So, in order to view my Amcrest cam along with my Foscam cameras all on the same screen at once, I have to use either Blue Iris or Ispy (which is free and good software). It would also be nice to have optical zoom. It does have digital zoom, which can be useful, but the clarity of a 10X optical zoom would make this camera just about perfect.