Light Compact High Definition 8MP USB Document Camera for laptop Built-in Microphone Mac Windows Chromebook OS Compatible for Live Demo Doc Camera for online teaching Distance Learning Remote Teaching

The image on this camera is acceptable in good ambient light. Don't count on the built-in light to make up for low ambient light conditions, though. It's not very bright. It's fine for high contrast documents on light backgrounds, but I'm not sure it would be effective for stop motion animation, say, which I always want in my doc cameras. The auto focus works but is not particularly quick. The camera base makes the camera stand firmly in place and the enclosed mat helps provide a useful landing zone to position items for display.My biggest complaint is what I knew I was getting going in. The limited degrees of freedom in the camera arm and head makes positioning of the base more critical on this camera than it would for units that have a rotating camera head. I've been complaining to manufacturers at education shows for years that this is the single most important feature for teachers, and only a few make it part of their designs. The good news is that the size of this unit's base is small enough to be less intrusive if you need to position the camera over a large book or document. But a rotating head allows a teacher or presented a transparent means to easily orient an image for proper display. Furthermore, if you can move the arm sufficiently, you can raise it up to act as an alternate webcam pointed at your face. This unit, unfortunately, doesn't have enough to flexibility in its design to do that easily.With presentations being such a vital part of on-line teaching and webinars, having a secondary source to display physical things to the attendees is a critical need, which is why so many of the mainstream providers ran out of supplies of the proven models in the marketplace during 2020, leaving schools desperate to find alternatives that were not on back order. This may have been one of them at the time.Bottom line: it works, but in a workmanlike way, and not as flexibly as those designed to be less intrusive to the work flow for teachers' and presenters' presentations.

PLUS:As a hybrid art teacher (kids in school and kids at home simultaneously), I need to talk to them directly into the camera and demonstrate what we're doing like a document camera. I also purchased this camera because of the onboard microphone. The clarity of both was amazing and very clear.NEGATIVE:I could not get the software and Teams to work together. It would open one or the other, but not both at the same time. I even had our school tech guru play with it and he could not get it to work. I needed the camera software to open in order to rotate the camera. (I was upside down or sideways) So, I had to return it.

This Office Aid camera has no hardware controls other than a button for brightness of the optional-use LEDs (which I found don't cast much illumination or fill light effectively at all--though it probably does aid the autofocus). The number of articulation points of the arm and look/finish quality also seemed like it would be an excellent product.Image color quality seemed good, but I noticed immediately the frame rate flicker. But worse was immense response lag of launching the included Visualizer Mac software. (For example choosing a functional drop down like resolution choices I'd press on the button and it would take several seconds for the drop down menu to appear. Repeat that level of lag *with every possible option of controlling function*. PAINFUL!)This included Visualizer software is used to control functions like resolution, zoom, mirroring, snap shots, diagrams, rotation and etc. But for platforms like Microsoft Teams, which itself doesn't have good built-in camera and picture controls, the manufacturer's instructions are to pre-launch Visualizer for controlling the camera options and then using the Teams app Share function to port that through simultaneously to the Teams interface.However, this Office Aid OAV500S camera would not work at all with Teams on Mac Powerbook Pro, testing it with latest Teams desktop app and both of the most recent Mac OSes (Catalina and Big Sur). However, Visualizer running simultaneously as my Teams software caused the Teams software to crash and/or to freeze the screen on black. If I used this camera with Teams without using Visualizer there was no way to correct the upside down and mirror-flipped image—making it useless for facing forward camera use as well as shooting down onto desktop/documents.Complaining to the seller/manufacturer for technical support only got me instruction to follow the included Teams instructions that I had already tried already. They could not remedy the incompatibility. I could get the camera to function via Zoom—but only using Zoom software's built in controls for flipping/rotating the image, but not the more robust controls and features that Visualizer software was supposed to provide.Perhaps this may work with PCs. Or may work well enough on Mac depending on what platform software you use and features that you need. But included Visualizer software seems to me to be complete garbage—and sadly no hardware controls available to compensate otherwise. Thankfully, after a few calls, Amazon stood behind the purchase and helped me get a refund.

Camera quality is good, 3 levels of brightness (adjustable), auto focus good. The item was purchase to use with distance learning via Zoom, Skype and FaceTime to integrate documents and objects in to digital presentation. As of yet, I have not tested this feature. TBD. Aesthetically appealing.

I love it! Super great quality and easy to use. Its great for the price and the software that comes with the product is so easy to install and manipulate. Really happy with this product!

Seems to be everything I need to teach my lessons to my remote students. Great image quality and pretty easy to set up.

I have a mac that I use when I teach virtually All I needed to do to get this doc camera to work was plug it into my usb hub. The doc camera was well made except on my screen everything was backwards I tried to install the online software but was able to. There in no contact phone number given in the included instructions Consequently I did return the item

I am very impressed with the clarity of the images. I use it for teaching through Zoom. This is an excellent choice. No downloading of any software needed. Just plug it in and it works.