Avervision 355AF Portable Document Camera

• AVerMedia AVerVision 5MP Document Camera - 355AF
• 5 year, 1 year AVerCPRTM (Carefree Product Replacement) Program
• Meeting Solutions

I ordered this product to demo iPad applications. The feature set looked great and would allow me to demo in person through a projector, record to AVI or MOV or online by using the device as a web camera. The documentation proclaims that both Windows and OS X are supported. In at least 2 places in the manual it says that the device can be used as a Web Cam when connected to a computer via USB. In neither place does it specify an operating system dependency but after an hour or two of frustration the AverMedia tech support folks told me (unappolegetically) that the web cam feature isn't supported on OS X (I double checked this isn't specified anywhere in their literature, documentation, FAQ, etc.)

While the web cam feature didn't work, the included Aver+ software did display the video from the device on my Mac. The image on the computer was horribly pixilated from compression even as a small image on my my screen it certainly didn't feel like 5MP. The image that is output to the VGA output is much better. The biggest problem that I had with the image was that when I tried to display the iPad screen the auto focus feature pretty worthless and a sort of grid appeared on the images on the iPad screen.

This product would be okay in a classroom displaying papers and small 3D objects but I was really disappointed in the image quality for displaying the iPad screen. And for $700, I expect the manufacture to be upfront about what does and does not work.