Axis Communications B092830 AXIS M2025-LE Network Camera, 1 Count (Pack of 1)

Great camera at a great price!!

Excellent

I have a number of these in service. The M series cameras are the entry level range for the retail store or non critical settings. The reason I like them is there arent many cameras with such a wide (115 degrees!) field of view in the Axis lineup. The next one up in outdoor cameras being a Q series that costs a fortune. These will give a good enough view of a wide area but theres no optical zoom and youre not going to get forensics quality footage on subjects that are that far away. My only real complaint about this model, for what it is, was they keep updating the firmware (usually this is a good thing) and the latest iteration added a browser checker in the UI that wont let you open it if youre using anything other than Firefox or Chrome I believe. I seem to remember Safari not being allowed in and opera forget it. The whole point of a web based gui is to have a browser and OS agnostic experience. I let Axis know how I felt about that. They will let you use a older firmware if you want but it does appear that after FTPing into the camera you can access the UI files and edit the HTML if you know what youre doing to remove the browser checker script. Anyway, I only use Axis Communications as they support the products and have a factory RMA service center a couple hours from here that has amazing turnaround time. Even if the camera is out of warranty, the charge (only if they can fix it!!!) is reasonable and if they cant fix it theyll sell you a refurb for a song. In summary, its a fantastic commercial grade camera. It will have some things consumer cameras dont have (such as MJPG if you want to just view the stream in a web browser) although probably not as many gimmicky features. If youre wanting to zoom in you should really consider a model that has optical zoom and not this camera as its just a good (not Times Square Earthcam) panorama-ish wide FOV.

This is a solid product which I already knew because we had used it before. The big deal here was finding it available. Thank you for having it and for getting it out quickly!

Excellent camera. Hard to go wrong with AXIS.