Alexcrist
New Member
Hello,
About a month ago I bought A229 Plus Duo solely because of the 60fps capability in Duo mode. But I'm not happy with the results. Is there any chance that Viofo will try to stabilize it in the near future? As it is, I'm sorry, but it's barely usable. The hardware/sensor are 100% clearly capable, but the firmware has no reasonable control over the exposure. It literally permanently changes exposure, going from almost complete darkness (when a car comes from the other way) to all the way blown-out max ISO for absolutely no reason and no benefit. And LITERALLY doing this every few frames, up and down and up and down and soo on. For every single sparkle in the image, it goes down and immediately back up to max.
A sample recording:
And for comparison, the same area with A129 Duo:
I'm also very disappointed by the sound recording. Very distorted, sometimes difficult to understand even basic speech in the car. Coming from years of A129 with absolutely impeccable sound (even music), the sound on 229 Plus cannot even be compared.
All in all, I really hope that someone at Viofo can stabilize the firmware, because it's too late for me to return it. Otherwise I'll just have to use 30fps, which I could have done just as well with my old camera (but even 30fps on 229 Plus is worse than on 129, because it still goes almost dark when having oncoming traffic, which 129 never did), so simply money wasted...
P.S.: Don't get me started on HDR... let's keep focus on 60fps in this thread, please.
About a month ago I bought A229 Plus Duo solely because of the 60fps capability in Duo mode. But I'm not happy with the results. Is there any chance that Viofo will try to stabilize it in the near future? As it is, I'm sorry, but it's barely usable. The hardware/sensor are 100% clearly capable, but the firmware has no reasonable control over the exposure. It literally permanently changes exposure, going from almost complete darkness (when a car comes from the other way) to all the way blown-out max ISO for absolutely no reason and no benefit. And LITERALLY doing this every few frames, up and down and up and down and soo on. For every single sparkle in the image, it goes down and immediately back up to max.
A sample recording:
And for comparison, the same area with A129 Duo:
I'm also very disappointed by the sound recording. Very distorted, sometimes difficult to understand even basic speech in the car. Coming from years of A129 with absolutely impeccable sound (even music), the sound on 229 Plus cannot even be compared.
All in all, I really hope that someone at Viofo can stabilize the firmware, because it's too late for me to return it. Otherwise I'll just have to use 30fps, which I could have done just as well with my old camera (but even 30fps on 229 Plus is worse than on 129, because it still goes almost dark when having oncoming traffic, which 129 never did), so simply money wasted...
P.S.: Don't get me started on HDR... let's keep focus on 60fps in this thread, please.