A really cheap $12 HDMI USB capture card I recently bought makes any decent HDMI capable camera ilike a DSLR nto an acceptable camera, and for some reason even that running over USB 2 is much faster than any USB 2 camera, and the detail and color are really good. So thats another option if 1080P resolution is enough for you..
If you need more the pictures from the newest larger format Raspberry Pi camera look spectacular, it takes any C mount lens, and isn't that expensive compared to similar cameras. Paired with a Pi 4 and its gigabit Ethernet you can probably do very well on a small budget.
Really nice review of a Hayear camera:
The camera might be ok or not (seems to be doing 1080i rather than 1080P?), but this reviewer (DestructiveBurn) does
very nice reviewing with a very nice video review setup. He seems to be pretty far down the path on how to use cameras to review cameras, and he has some very nice reviewing skills and style.
Overall, this review leaves lots of bread crumbs that can help lead to insights and questions for still more camera and microscope related research, but even more interesting is that if DestructiveBurn isn’t already an EEVer I think he would be fit right in a as very good forum member.
Another Hayear camera model:
https://youtu.be/r34OOIVRddYLots of breadcrumbs but the point this reviewer makes early in the video that resonates a lot is that Hayear should do a better job of labeling their products with model numbers. Their web site often gives a bunch of specs but no model number, and the model numbers don’t seem to be on the cameras. Marketing 101 booboos.
I guess Hayear doesn’t play much baseball where they say “you can’t tell the players without a roster”, and btw even with a roster you still can’t tell the players if there are no numbers on their uniforms. Pretty much the same for soccer and all sports and all products.