hey everybody Paul and tests here with ptzoptics
we're gonna tell you today about the PTZ optics z cams which has been so popular
the 20x model and the variable lens model people have been using all over
the place for live streaming and video production yeah it's sort of a fan
favorite for ours and a lot of our friends in the industry have been using
this and shared some great footage with us
yes David Foster from the live-streaming pros shared with us his top three live
streaming cameras and the PTZ optics 20 X Z cam is actually his main camera it
looks so good at now keep in mind he's got great lighting he's got a beautiful
set but it looks amazing it really does he shared some of his own footage with
us about these cameras so take a look so the next camera is what I'm using right
now as my main camera and that is the PTZ optics box camera this camera is an
$800 camera it's got the same exact lens on as the PTZ optics 20 times zoom so
it's a really good piece of glass and it's just a really simple little box
camera with a mount on the bottom it is SDI and the only thing is you don't have
a screen on it so you have to set it up like through a monitor or something like
that which you know it's not a big deal when I've got a monitor sitting right in
front of me so let me show it show my mom my monitor Philip my monitor is
literally so I'm that's what I'm looking at right here so let me take this and
come back behind me so you can see exactly what I'm looking at so I'm
looking at that the camera is right here and this is my monitor that I'm looking
at so I'm this is the camera the PTZ box camera you can see how good that looks
it's very clear it's a 1080 30 frame per second camera and and I love it so that
is what I actually had as an overhead camera and probably will go back to once
I get the other PTZ as my main camera so that is the PTZ optics camera $799 the
shot just looks so crisp you could see like every hair on his beard seriously
great application thanks for sending that over David now one of the great
things about the PTZ optics 20 X Z cams is they're actually the
same lens as the PTZ optics 20x PTZ cameras so the way we use them in our
studio is we actually have one PTZ camera and one z cam next to each other
so when we fade the color matching is is ideal you will actually probably see in
some of our other videos that you can actually put lens rings step rings all
the PTZ optics 20x to fit lights and other chromakey reflective material like
the reflect media so check that out the next camera the Zcam this is our
variable lens ZCAM just quickly wanted to mention both are 1080p and if we show
it up here in close close we actually have POE which is power over ethernet
and a locking hd-sdi yeah we've seen some really creative
uses for these cameras so the professionals like the SDI because it
locks in doesn't fall out like in HDMI and you can have SDI cables go for miles
and miles so with the variable lens Z cam we can actually take off the lens and
put on other things and we actually have seen people use this with telescopes
yeah we've seen telescopes ring lights there's the CMOS sensor right there a
Panasonic 1080p60 CMOS sensor and let me show you a video where we actually plug
this into a telescope to livestream the super moon here January 1st of 2018 it
just screws right on the top of a telescope you can get hundreds of X
optical zoom with these telescopes and livestream astronomy and all kinds of
stuff yeah it's certainly a variable lens if you can imagine it you can
pretty much make it work with this camera and the ability to switch the
lens out so with power over ethernet 1080p 60 video support and HD SDI and
forget about the audio line-in option on the audio line-in
the ability to embed audio it's it's a great product and you can learn more
about it in the links below but we will show you we will send you a link to the
live streaming pro so you can see their review don't take our word for it and
we'll give you the link to how to livestream astronomical events with
these cameras there's so much you can do with that leave your comment below if
you have a specialized cool application for it we also use them for like
behind-the-scenes camera so right behind tess here we've got a little
behind-the-scenes camera so you can put these cameras they're very affordable
you can put them behind the scenes to show little areas under tables all
different kinds of places to show these close-up wide-angle camera wide angle
lens great for live streaming for starters and those of you on a tighter
budget so definitely check out this camera in the links below take care
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