REOLINK RLC-823S2, Smart 4K/8MP UHD PTZ Dome Security Camera with Cutting-Edge 16X Optical Zoom and 3D Zoom, Spotlights Color Night Vision, Person/Vehicle/Animal Detection, 2 Way Talk, 24/7 Recording

Really impressed with this camera. The clarity and optical zoom is really nice. PTZ is awesome and auto tracking works pretty well. The only thing I could nitpick is I wish the auto focus was a little faster.

It does the job . I’m happy with the night vision features and overall it worth it in investing in this camera.

The concept of tracking objects is great, however in our case we have a busy highway across the top of the field of view. We have masked that area out but once it starts tracking an object it'll watch it and start moving around. When it moves up at all the highway becomes unmasked and it'll start tracking cars. It would be nice to do a max-track time or if the mask logic could be applied when it moves around.It's currently fixed and zoomed in on the main driveway of our entrance and it works well for seeing people and cars but the tracking would have been nice.Also another slight annoyance is it does not change zoom/focus when tracking. It would be nice to actually zoom into the object in full screen and remain in full screen as they get closer. In our case we're at like 12x and if they walk closer you end up getting a blurry shirt.

Built like a brick, auto focus kills everything good about this camera. Each setpoint takes a good 5 seconds to focus, if it focuses at all. There is no auto-focus button so the only way to get the camera to try and focus again is to move the zoom or pan/tilt. Patrol is pointless if each setpoint isn't visible for more than half of the pause between patrols. Object tracking is a novelty at best, does a decent job for about 30 seconds before leaving the camera zoomed in and immobile on nothing. Mobile app camera view frequently freezes video and functions requiring app to be forced closed and restarted. For a consumer PTZ I wasn't expecting the best, but for $300 this is extremely disappointing.UPDATE: Now my NVR beeps continuously when using any ptz function - seems the Reolink NVR doesn’t supply the Reolink camera with enough power.UPDATED: After a few months of giving it a shot, I changed my review to 1 star. Yesterday, the preset points were pointing to incorrect areas and the function was overall delayed. Today, the camera has moved to a new position on its own, all attempts to select presets only zooms in and out on the current (wrong) area looking at sky. Left, Right, Up and Down have stopped working. Restarting the camera allows only manual movement. The presets still all go to only one 'sky' position and attempts to change only zoom with zero pan and tilt.Extremely disappointed as my 16 other Reolink products have been fairly uneventful and reliable. This PTZ is a heavily constructed piece of crap. Any future security cameras will have to be compatible, because I'm done with Reolink.

Amazing! quiet when its moving outside, still noisy recording... (maybe add an external microphone?) Otherwise works great! Even when it was 0 degrees out. The 16x zoom is crazy. Wish the phone app and the windows app did the 3d zoom, I haven't gotten it to work. Wired straight to the NVR and have heard using a POE switch fixes this?

Pros1) POE works great.2) build quality seems on point3) lots of great features.4) zoom is awesome.Cons1) the core functionality of the main advertised features is very much lacking.A) sentry mode has no scheduling feature. It's either running 24/7 in sentry mode or not at all. Kiss those PTZ motors good bye.B) while in sentry mode, it cannot also do object tracking... So what's the point of sentry mode?C) object tracking has no object prioritization. It will track the original object, like a car, and will not disengage to track a new object, like a person.In my opinion, this is a gimmick and you still need additional fixed position cameras to have reliable coverage.Reolink,quit following the software trend of releasing bare minimum functionality to get to market. People don't want to buy a product and hope you one day release the software you originally promised. You cannot rely on product sales to justify investment into the software.Be better.