Steve_Parry
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- Location
- Brisbane North West
- Country
- Australia
- Dash Cam
- Many over 10 years. Currently 1 x SG9663DCPRO, 1 x SG9663DR
Hi all,
I have just displaced my DR500GW-HD with an SG9665GC to try and address poor video quality and in particular number plate legibility issues. I'm using Beta 27. Settings are all at default, except motion detection turned on.
The SG is much better than the BlackVue, except when the sun is above or in front, when I get a lot of reflection from the (black) dashboard which I think is causing the video to be nearly impossible to read number plates and even some road signs.
I also can't read number plates on cars traveling towards me, even in 'non dashboard reflection' conditions - is that normal?
I don't really want to go the CPL route (exhausted my budget on the SG already!) - any suggestions? I saw one suggestion of a handmade cowling - I assume that is to provide a "shield" between the bottom of the camera and the windscreen - does that work? Best material (I was thinking black card)?
Sample video can be seen here:
https://1drv.ms/f/s!Alvp5sx_wtqwgf8JwX5ZJX_Z_pcxsw
As an aside, I can see some white pixels on the centre dashboard area - is this the 'hot pixel' issue mentioned in other posts?
Thank in advance.
Cheers
...Steve
I have just displaced my DR500GW-HD with an SG9665GC to try and address poor video quality and in particular number plate legibility issues. I'm using Beta 27. Settings are all at default, except motion detection turned on.
The SG is much better than the BlackVue, except when the sun is above or in front, when I get a lot of reflection from the (black) dashboard which I think is causing the video to be nearly impossible to read number plates and even some road signs.
I also can't read number plates on cars traveling towards me, even in 'non dashboard reflection' conditions - is that normal?
I don't really want to go the CPL route (exhausted my budget on the SG already!) - any suggestions? I saw one suggestion of a handmade cowling - I assume that is to provide a "shield" between the bottom of the camera and the windscreen - does that work? Best material (I was thinking black card)?
Sample video can be seen here:
https://1drv.ms/f/s!Alvp5sx_wtqwgf8JwX5ZJX_Z_pcxsw
As an aside, I can see some white pixels on the centre dashboard area - is this the 'hot pixel' issue mentioned in other posts?
Thank in advance.
Cheers
...Steve