IPEVO Point 2 View USB Document Camera Review

During the summer I was lucky enough to win a contest IPEVO was hosting and won an IPEVO P2V.

The IPEVO P2V is a great document camera, as advertised, compatible with Mac and PC, with an amazing macro mode for high quality close-ups, which is a great advantage for product reviewers.  For those wondering, this does work with Skype, and it does a decent job.

In the box, you’ll get a quickstart guide, the camera itself, a desk stand, a clip made to fit on top of monitors and such, a usb cord, and a disk with the software and user manual.

The great closeups, which is great for product reviewing.  Great quality and framerate in good lighting, again, which makes it great for product reviewing.  Finally, the heavy desk stand, which is great because with a heavy stand, the camera won’t easily tip over.

The price.  The P2V costs about $70.00, and you can get a Logitech C510 for about $10.00 less, or for $30.00 more, you can get a Microsoft 1080p Webcam that has amazing quality.  No video mode in the software, which means you’d have to look all over online for a free webcam recorder.  Not good.  In low light, the camera has horrible quality and framerate, again, not good.  No microphone, even though this isn’t meant to be a webcam, this should still be added.

All in all, if you want a good camera for close up shots, or anything of that sort, then go for the P2V.  If you are into videoblogging and you don’t have a microphone or webcam, I recommend you spend the extra money and get the Logitech C510, the Logitech C910, or the Microsoft Lifecam, they are all probably the best webcams on the market, and they are great with macro shots and videoblogging, pretty much everything.

If you’d like to buy this product, you can buy the P2V here.

-Brendan