DS520 TL-15M

When I decided that I was finally going to buy one of these little cameras, I spent hours looking at all the various options. I finally settled on the 16’ version of this camera. I’m very pleased with my purchase. I wanted a camera primarily to look within my walls and stud cavities for running low voltage cabling. I'm not an ace with a fish tape, and this lets me find existing holes and obstructions. This works really well for that purpose, and in multiple (long) sessions it has been thoroughly reliable and satisfying to use. The camera focuses nicely from about 1 inch to infinity. The resolution and lighting are excellent (and the light level is adjustable). The side cameras are far more useful that I expected, and on my first use of the camera revealed something (a corrugated gas line) that I otherwise would have missed. I like the fact that I don’t have to tie-up my phone to use the camera. The flexibility/stiffness of the cable seems to be “just right”. Bottom line: this is a good, solid, choice. Nice unit. Easy to use. Highly recommended.

Excellent product! Easy to use, the manual is helpful, so is the carrying case. Very pleasantly surprised by the quality and how well it works right out of the box - the SD card is ready to take photos, the connection to the cable feels very secure, the battery was still mostly full even though it sat on the shelf after purchase for 5 months. The light is very bright, too. While the interface is not exactly intuitive, the manual clarifies how to do things that are not immediately apparent: long press Ok to enter photo review mode, long press on "back" semi-circle button to switch cameras. We used it to determine that we have baby racoons and not poltergeist making thumping noises in our eaves. The quality of the photos was excellent, the picture I uploaded doesn't do it justice! We taped it to an expandable pole for window washing for poking it through the eaves. Fishing line would probably work well, too. Even though the description says "semi-rigid", it was hard to get it to go straight in the open space in the direction we needed. It may work better in the pipes, which is what we originally got it for and then never used as intended. The device would not charge with the super fast charger for my phone, I had to dig out an older charging block. Great value for the price, five stars!

It works great. The build quality and ease of use are great. I just don't like the video quality in low light. I used it to look over my AC evaporator coil. And, even though it did help me immensely to diagnose and fix a clogging problem with that coil, I was fighting hard to see images as they were quite grainy. So, I was wishing I had invested in a monitor with higher resolution using it's own lights. But, like I said it was immensely useful as I saw and cleaned out much of the coil debris that built up over the years and it worked very well under tough lighting conditions. The two side view cameras and lights came in extremely handy to look at different views inside the air box of my AC unit. So, as a value for the money, yes, totally. If you have a bigger budget and need to use it more often than me, which is as a home maintenance application DIY guy, I would recommend one with higher resolution in the dark, under it's own lighting. This unit is quite crisp in good lighting, but gets grainy under it's own lighting. However, the unit more than paid me back getting otherwise impossible views of my coil. So it was money well spent and performed perfectly adequately for what I needed to do with it. So I guess it's fair to say that it's a good value for the price.

I had another model that had some issues, but it gave me something to compare against this one. For a few bucks extra, this one has better resolution, a longer cable, a useful case, accessory attachments, and more. I actually didn't even know it had multiple cameras until I started clicking some buttons. But I do like the side view cameras on this one vs. The articulating cable of the other unit I tested. I've used it multiple times in just a couple of weeks—mostly fishing wires in walls and figuring out what was preventing me from fishing said wires. The attachments were also unexpected, but came in handy immediately. I put the hook to use in grabbing a doorbell wire that I had dropped a little off to the side of my hole in the wall. Worked like a charm. I only have two real critiques so far. One is a real UI issue: I just don't really like the way the camera selection button works. It's not very intuitive that a quick press rotates the orientation, while a long press switches to a split screen or alternate camera view. Two separate buttons would make more sense to me. But the feature itself works great. Finally, I've found that my personal preference, at least in the problems for which I've employed the borescope so far, is a shorter cable. The typical 5.5ft cable is plenty for peering into walls. I can see this longer cable coming in handy the next time I need to inspect the entirety of my dryer vent, locate a blockage in long sanitary sewer line, or maybe if I were dropping wires in a two-story home. But for just peeking into a regular wall cavity, the long cable just becomes a bit unwieldy. But, that's also where another benefit of this product shines: because the cable is not integrated into the screen unit, it can be replaced. So maybe I'll look for a shorter cable for shorter jobs, while reserving the longer one for the instances that call for it. Longevity yet to be determined, but battery life is good, display quality is good. Recording capability is very useful. Good product for a good price, I'd say.

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