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The OBSBOT Tail Air has built up an excellent reputation since release as one of the go-to PTZ cameras of the new generation of AI-assisted products. It provides crystal clear sharp 4K images that are perfect for a wide range of uses, making it a superb choice for everything from live events, to live video production, conference production, remote production, and, of course, live streaming.
It is based around a 1/1.8'' CMOS sensor, which is housed in a compact form factor, allowing it to be unobtrusively placed in a wide range of locations for a variety of different use cases. Not that you necessarily want to hide it away because it's a nice bit of functional industrial design with an excellent build quality. But it's advanced AI tracking and hands-free operation allows you to pretty much set and forget if need be.
The AI tracking is a huge benefit, automatically keeping people, animals, and even objects in the frame, enabling users to concentrate on what they do best, creating content. OBSBOT Tail Air has a variety of different tracking modes to help make all this work seamlessly and automatically, tracking at an impressive speed of 120° per second. Motion is smooth, precise, and reliable, making sure your video always looks good with no jerks or sudden movements.
What's more, the OBSBOT Tail Air has the connectivity options to get the resulting video to audiences wherever they are. Micro HDMI, USB-C, and Ethernet connections let the camera fit seamlessly into multiple workflows, whether live streaming or recording. The choice is yours and means you don’t have to worry about any compatibility issues, now or in the future. And it also has full support for NDI | HX3. This is a huge win for anyone using the camera, making it a plug-and-play addition for all sorts of productions. Looking to run more than one OBSBOT Tail Air for a multi-camera set up? Just connect it onto the network and it will be there ready and waiting.
Elsewhere, a fully-featured mobile app provides swift access to an extensive range of image adjustment parameters, making sure you always produce the best picture possible. It also gives you access to some extremely useful tools such as the AI Director Grid for swift scene composition and switching. This is a fabulous innovation. Essentially what it does is take the image and subdivides that into windows, each of which frames the shot slightly differently. This lets users rapidly switch between different shots and angles of what is the same overall image, giving a huge creative boost for no additional outlay and making any production stand out
Many functions such as AI tracking and zoom in and out can be operated by gesture control, while there's also an optional remote control for when you need a bit more functionality.
But for all its superb features and functions, at heart the OBSBOT Tail Air is a camera. As such the image quality is top-notch. The OBSBOT Tail Air's increased true 2μm large pixel size and ƒ1.8 aperture allows for plenty of light to be captured, resulting in exceptional low-light video quality with reduced noise and finer image performance; useful considering the many varied environments the unit has to contend with.
In short, the OBSBOT Tail Air offers a lot for $499. And the good news is that OBSBOT has a special deal coming up this Amazon Prime Day, meaning that you can pick it up for just $449, a saving of $50 or 10%.
As is the way of such Prime Day offers, it's not going to be around for long so you need to act quickly. The $50 saving will be live until July 21, after which the camera will revert back to its normal price. Given its capabilities it has to be said it's a bit of a bargain at that price too, but savings are always good and this is a great chance to add a PTZ camera featuring powerful AI and superb 4K picture quality to your set-up. You can even buy it directly from Amazon here.