Perfect PTZ Camera for Small Churches? We Test the BZBGear ADAMO 4K Camera

From tight shots to smooth auto-tracking, the BZBGear Adamo 4K PTZ cameras provided an affordable, feature-rich solution for Church at Rock Creek’s worship broadcasts.

“I was a little nervous because my experience with PTZs in the past is that you can just tell it's a PTZ camera, but with these cameras in particular, the quality looked good and we were able to blend it in with our broadcast cameras.” Nick Burt is the director of communications at the Church at Rock Creek in Little Rock, Arkansas. As part of a Church Production Road Test User Experience, he and his team agreed to try out BZBGear’s Adamo 4K PTZ Cameras. “We actually put one in the very back of the room in our front of house booth and we'd use it to get some tight shots on stage where we were also getting the heads of the crowd in the shots as well, just to establish some depth, and it was a really nice look for us,” he says.

Burt is also very enthusiastic about the list of features in the Adamo cameras. “It's full of features. It's got 12G SDI. It's got HDMI connections. You can run the camera, POE (power over ethernet). They even have versions that are NDI- and Dante AV-compatible. One of their main features on the camera is their AI auto tracking technology that can pick out your speaker and follow them is they move across the stage,” he explains. “It had two different tracking modes. It had a zone tracking mode, and then it had another one where it was actually looking for a person, and you can do all of that from their web interface. You can enable that so you don't even actually have to have a controller.”

He says construction of the Adamo cameras was good saying it was a solid feeling camera that you didn’t feel like you were going to break. Another feature that was mentioned is the micro SD card slot on the back that allows local recording at the camera, “You could have an ISO recording if you wanted to record all your cameras separately and go back and edit, and the cameras can also live stream from the camera,” he says.

Burt concludes that if you don’t have the budget for a lot of gear like a video switcher or a full suite of tools, then he would recommend this camera because you can record locally, stream directly from it and you also have the flexibility of several different video connections.

To see Burt’s interview and the video they shot with the cameras at Church at Rock Creek, click here.