I have tried a bunch of network cameras and unfortuantely most don't work very well Macintosh. Under $400 most don't work that great period. The Axis cameras on the other hand do. The web interface was pretty straight forward. Setup was a little technical, but easy enough.

Few of really great things about this camera if you are using a Mac. First, they automatically show up in the Bonjour menu of Safari so locating them and administrating them over the network is easy. Second, Quicktime automatically finds them through Bonjour too!!! You can actually very the video streams straight from Quicktime. Go to File/Open Url/ then click on the menu button to the far right of the screen that pops up and towards the bottom of the list you will see the camera(s) list themselves. You can also change the name that appears in Bonjour lists from a IPv4 address to a recognizable name by going into the web admin of the camera System Options/Network/Bonjour and renaming the camera in the... Read more

5 star rating based on quality and functionality, given price. This camera is used w/ Apple Mac and Seagate BlackArmor server.

PROS:

--good image quality
-- solid feature set inc. saving video/images to FTP, email, etc. and notification
-- can view online (also via iPhone) w/ complimentary AXIS website
-- excellent design
-- despite complaints the LIGHT is good - i illuminate fairly large rooms w/ one yes one camera - so the complain is unfounded and possibly due to defective unit.
--solid wifi
-- at this price (250ish) you will not find a better product.

CONS:

-- subpar documentation
-- there is a learning curve (and if you are not expert IT you will call tech support and they will help you so you will learn which is +)
-- more difficult on a mac given you have to perform a more manual input since no osx SW from AXIS

this is an excellent product, truly. 5 stars for all that you get for... Read more

This isn't a re-purposed webcam for your desktop; it is optimized for high-quality, multi-stream, compressed video output under even relatively low light conditions. It will provide adequate image quality under nearly-dark conditions (low "night" interior lighting, street light) and the illuminator can be used for then the PIR sensor picks up motion, even in "total" darkness.

Good quality video is streamed even at 200 kbps, with the camera able to support multiple, H.263 streams at once. No compression host is needed. All day-to-day viewing and management tasks can be performed through a browser -- Mac and FreeBSD (and, I assume Linux) work just fine. I expect that Maemo on my soon-to-be-shipped Nokia n900 will be fine as well.

No drivers are needed and there is a well-documented API that allows for development of image and video control and capture utilities on any platform that can handle HTTP(S) and RTSP for streams.

My only complaint so far, for... Read more