Infant Optics Wide Angle Lens For DXR-8

Just got this today and I have to say its an instant game changer. Our playroom is long and it was impossible to keep my constantly moving toddler in frame. I put on this wide angle lens and I can see more than half the room on the monitor at a time. Its great! Its very clear when theres a lot of light and seems about as grainy as the regular lens so all in all a great improvement.

It’s a lens. What does it ask about battery life for? I love it. Does it’s job well.

I ordered this when I ordered the monitor. Picture quality is not as good as with the regular or zoom lens however it says such in the manual. But it is better than I expected when I tried it. I have an 18 month old and this helps me keep track of her without having to move the view of the camera back and forth. I love it and am glad I added it onto my purchase.

We have three cameras - Here are my thoughts/conclusions Camera One (1) The night vision is horrible unless it is 4 to 5 feet MAX from the subject. (2) The wide angle lens progressively makes the camera get worse over time. (3) The wide angle lens is in no way for a room shot at night. Daytime yes, but if the room is dark you will not be able to see your children whatsoever. The frame around the camera is fuzzy from the moment the wide angle lens is put on the camera. (4) In order to get the camera to function WITHOUT the wide angle lens in a room where there are two beds, it should be up no higher than 4.5 feet and NOT attached to the wall. This does NOT give us a true wide angle shot, but we have to scroll from bed to bed. We can at least see our children to see if they are in bed and/or if their eyes are open. Camera Two (1) Night vision is fine because it is focusing on a white crib and directly over the crib. The distance is maybe 3 feet to the subject. The wide angle is also fine because its 3ft away from the subject, but I dont understand why anyone would want a wider shot of a crib when the one (non-wide angle lens) works totally fine for that. Camera Three (1) Night vision is fine because enough light creeps into the room. I filed a return on Amazon to return the wide angle lens which is absolutely useless to us. Im overall disappointed in the customer service (you get one instruction from one and one totally opposite from another), and the room view for camera one. If you are buying this system to look at cribs you will be fine. If you need it to look at two toddler beds, you will be disappointed like us. The only reason we are keeping it is because our home has plaster walls and its the best system in regards to range. (Like we can get a signal in every room of the house.) Anyways, I hope this review is helpful to you and saves you a month of time and effort.

This is more if a software issue but if you use 2x or 4x zoom you cant move around the zoom, you can only move the physical camera. So if you want to zoom into the edge of the cameras frame, you cant

Love this camera system! The last thing we want to rely on is our shoty cable WiFi to be used as the go between channel. Forget the nonsense about hackers...I’m talking about being able to see your kid even if the WiFi is down. So reliable, So clear, So cool when you pan or tilt the camera from the remote, and So cool to have a 2 way conversation by simply holding down a key on the monitor. Set up a total of 4 cameras and either watch 1 or scan between them all. Battery seems to last forever and the charging cable is super long so your not held hostage by an outlet. Love this system.

This lens is good during the day providing sharp wide picture of the baby room. Unfortunately, it is absolutely useless at night even with low light on in the room. I have purchased Infant Optics DXR-8 baby video monitor for my sons room because it included night vision feature allowing us to keep track on him without disturbing his sleep. The original lens that came with the camera does a great job, but the provides limited field of view only covering about a 1/4 of the 9 x 9 room. Wide angle lens allows us to see most of the room and actually provides sharper picture compared to the original lens. However, it seems to block/reflect the IR light at night making the monitor too dark to see anything.

I bought it because I needed a wider view of my child’s bedroom and it was cheap. I had hoped some of the negative reviews about the poor night vision wouldn’t apply to the lens I received. Welp, hello poor night vision. While I can technically see everything I need to see, it’s blurry and shifty.

This fit our monitor perfectly! We just transitioned our daughter from her crib to her big girl bed and wanted to be able to monitor more of the room to see where she goes if she gets up. This is the perfect lens switch for the monitor. This is our second monitor (we had a Motorola first) and I would recommend it to anyone not looking for a wifi monitor.

This wide angle veiwing lense definitely gives me extra range in my field of view when I use it with my camera, and its easy to put on or take off. It protrudes a bit from the camera, but I expect as much. However, its frustrating that I needed to buy an ADDITIONAL lense just to get the same view that I would typically get from other baby monitors in this same price range, so it was an added expense that didnt seem totally necessary