Bought one of these for a (very!) small church, to improve their streaming over the fixed-lens, microphones-included system they were using (producing unwatchable and unlistenable streams). This is NOT a broadcast-quality camera that is going to make anyone think you've got a high-end camera on a fluid head being manned by a human being. But if you can live with the kind of abrupt and "coarse" pans, tilts and zooms (or if your audience can), I can't imagine doing better than this little camera. The 10x optical zoom allows a belt-to-scalp shot of the pulpit from the back of the room (maybe 35'). The presets are very nice, as they allow the operator to do gross zoom-outs or pans to track the typical movements. But if you're tracking a "mobile pastor", the audience is going to have to live with everything happening in "jumps" instead of a smooth, continuous movement. For the needs of the small church, it's light years ahead of their old system, and the picture quality is actually really nice (probably better than necessary for streaming to most devices anyway).
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