Infant Optics Wide Angle Lens For DXR-8

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

I was hesitant to try this lens after reading several poor reviews. The reviews stated that the picture quality, specifically when using night vision, was horrible. I stumbled upon a Q&A that said the poor picture quality when using night vision had been resolved in newer models. I cannot remember the exact year they said, but we purchased our video monitor in late 2018. I figured I would give it a try since scanning the room for our child (who just moved to a toddler bed) with the standard lens is somewhat annoying. I put the new lens on tonight, and I was very pleased that the picture quality isn’t horrible. The picture quality is slightly worse than when using the standard lens, but I can see clearly enough that it won’t be an issue. My only complaint about this video monitor in general is that I think the picture quality should be better overall for the price, but again, it does it’s job so it’s not something to throw a fit about.

This is the lense that should come with the camera. If you plan to mount the camera over the crib. You want this lense unless you want to mount the camera 6’ up on the wall... With this lense we can see the whole crib with the camera mounted about 1.5’ above the crib rail.

This wide angle veiwing lense definitely gives me extra range in my field of view when I use it with my camera, and its easy to put on or take off. It protrudes a bit from the camera, but I expect as much. However, its frustrating that I needed to buy an ADDITIONAL lense just to get the same view that I would typically get from other baby monitors in this same price range, so it was an added expense that didnt seem totally necessary

Great way to enhance the image of nursery

works as expected

This is the lens that Infant Optics should include with the baby monitor from the factory. The viewing angle is much better/wider than the zoom lens or when using just the “hood“ lens. Additionally, infrared night vision is not impaired (at least not for our unit that was purchased around 06/2019).

With products like this it makes me wonder what we have been doing this whole time! Missing out, that’s what. Very rarely are we this satisfied with a product. So easy to install. Captures the entire room so we can keep track of our extremely active toddler. Can’t recommend this enough!

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.

The DXR-8 is both a highly rated and highly reviewed product, which is why my wife and I decided to get this model. We love that we can pan the camera, but also how amazingly quiet the panning is. We also like the ability to two-way talk has made life a bit easier from time to time. We also like that if we were to lose internet, our camera would still work, unlike our previous product.