Zachary C.
SiOnyx Pro is a great little package-wishlist manual zoom
SiOnyx Pro is a great little package. Will be using this camera for hiking and outdoors surveillance at night. After the first few trials in my backyard I am beyond pleased with its performance. Digital zoom is a little up for discussion, I would rather see a true mechanical zoom on this even if it was 2x or up to 4X max then use digital zoom for up to 8X. I know it would add weight and size but I think it would keep the resolution a little higher. The optional IR illumination kit is no joke and really fills in the room when used indoors, spot focus is read well on the SiOnyx outdoors as a spot light. App interface is quick and lightweight when you need to transfer photos fast and share what you are seeing. In less than 2 minutes I can snap turn on my SiOnyx, link to phone and send to a friend what I am seeing. A+. I'd say for most situations I need this unit, ill be very happy. Only would've liked the ability to pull manual zoom for spotting in distance 200yrds. digital zoom seems to be a crop of full frame exposure so you cant get detail in the zoomed area if a branch reflects the IR back to the camera in the full frame without zoom. Make spotlight on IR and try to do several experiments and still tricky to get good focus at 200yrds on digital zoom. When you turn of digital zoom you can see better with exposure but my eyes struggle to identify objects at 200yrds since you are looking at less pixels on the screen. Detection is great (good screen refresh rate) but classification is tricky (pixel density).



