Tighter field of view

[Pecktec]

Every dashcam I've used makes everything look much farther away than it actually is. I want footage that looks more real. Does anybody know how I might search for a dashcam that has a tighter field of view?

 

[jokiin]

if you want the distance perspective to look more true to life you'll need a very narrow lens angle, the challenge is you'll miss out on most of the peripheral information, would be like having tunnel vision, you'll get a great view of the vehicle that hits you, you might not have much in the way of detail on where it came from though

 

[Nigel]

Not really a dashcam, but the Git2P comes with a 90 degree lens and has all the dashcam features and more, should be quite close to how you remember real life: http://www.gitup.com/home/70-gitup-git2p-panasonic-sensor-2160p-90-fov-standard-edition.html

However, as jokiin suggests, you would probably want a normal wide view dashcam as well, otherwise it will likely only show the end result, not what or who caused that result to happen.

 

[kamkar]

Yeah.
When you get to lenses that make footage like you "see it with your own eyes" you run into a few problems.

First off if you have a lens that make you read license plates as far off in the footage as you can do in the moment with your own eyes, then you have a lens that have a pretty narrow FOV.

I find that a 6 - 8 mm lens work good for me in this regard, but they have so narrow FOV ( less than 90 degrees ) that i would never rely on a camera like that alone.

I even feel on such a camera i have a higher chance of capturing a plate on a oncoming car than with the regular wide angle lenses, so in short i like it and are sad my camera with the 8 mm lens stopped working, so ATM i am planning on getting a better lens to put on another camera.