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Okay then poorly aligned and not that good focused long lens camera.
Anyways to the business at hand.
For a long time i have been telling myself that my long lens camera give me a much larger chance of a plate capture, not least in less than optimal weather.
So coming home from my drive today i got some of that footage, and what better excuse to crank up the newly updated editing suite and have a closer look.
First of all a little background information as we are after all talking about 2 different cameras and not to mention lenses.
So the SGGCX2 are more or less stock though it have another lens than the model are sold with, but the lens are still as wide as dashcam lenses go in the normal realm, the camera record 1080/30 footage and IQ / bitrate are set to high.
The SGGCX2 are equipped with the Sony IMX 323 sensor, not the top low light sensor out there, but still a okay one and i am sure it will be used for some time to come.
On the other hand we have my Mobius Maxi, it is equipped with a 12 mm lens for long range duty, but for this recording it are not in the sweet spot, but still good enough to confirm my suspicion, the Mobius record in 1080/60 and IQ / bitrate are also set to high.
For the 2 raw files the bitrate are SG 15.2 mbit / Mobius 26.1 mbit, so not the same bitrate.
Now you can argue well its 30 fps Vs 60 FPS, and thats also true, but i dont think the lighting are so low that the FPS settings have much affect on the suitable exposure timings the cameras can choose to use.
But just to be fair i will set the mobius to 1080/30 and a lower bitrate to be able to do a more potato Vs potato comparison in the coming days to make sure.
The sensor in the 2 cameras are also not the same, but here i think the Sony sensor in the SG camera have the upper hand on what is in the Mobius.
In my editing software i did a 5 second freeze frame on the one frame that was best for plate reading, this was much harder on the SGGCX2 where the Mobius i had several frames to choose from, and would have had even more if it had been aligned better in the L&R directions.
I still find this result interesting though it is not 100% fair in between the 2 contenders, so i will try to even the playing fiels out a bit more in settings and return with another video on the 2 cameras and their clody day / low light plate capture performance.
Anyways to the business at hand.
For a long time i have been telling myself that my long lens camera give me a much larger chance of a plate capture, not least in less than optimal weather.
So coming home from my drive today i got some of that footage, and what better excuse to crank up the newly updated editing suite and have a closer look.
First of all a little background information as we are after all talking about 2 different cameras and not to mention lenses.
So the SGGCX2 are more or less stock though it have another lens than the model are sold with, but the lens are still as wide as dashcam lenses go in the normal realm, the camera record 1080/30 footage and IQ / bitrate are set to high.
The SGGCX2 are equipped with the Sony IMX 323 sensor, not the top low light sensor out there, but still a okay one and i am sure it will be used for some time to come.
On the other hand we have my Mobius Maxi, it is equipped with a 12 mm lens for long range duty, but for this recording it are not in the sweet spot, but still good enough to confirm my suspicion, the Mobius record in 1080/60 and IQ / bitrate are also set to high.
For the 2 raw files the bitrate are SG 15.2 mbit / Mobius 26.1 mbit, so not the same bitrate.
Now you can argue well its 30 fps Vs 60 FPS, and thats also true, but i dont think the lighting are so low that the FPS settings have much affect on the suitable exposure timings the cameras can choose to use.
But just to be fair i will set the mobius to 1080/30 and a lower bitrate to be able to do a more potato Vs potato comparison in the coming days to make sure.
The sensor in the 2 cameras are also not the same, but here i think the Sony sensor in the SG camera have the upper hand on what is in the Mobius.
In my editing software i did a 5 second freeze frame on the one frame that was best for plate reading, this was much harder on the SGGCX2 where the Mobius i had several frames to choose from, and would have had even more if it had been aligned better in the L&R directions.
I still find this result interesting though it is not 100% fair in between the 2 contenders, so i will try to even the playing fiels out a bit more in settings and return with another video on the 2 cameras and their clody day / low light plate capture performance.