superclarkey
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New to the forum, so hello everyone.
I have had a DOD LS470W+ in my car for many years, maybe 2015 I got it, so when I looked into getting a new camera I thought the cameras would be like 2-3 generations on, kinda surprised they all look about the same. Seems like its more about features then video quality, which seems backwards to me, but oh well.
Anyways did a bit of research and the A119 V3 came up as a solid choice, and the price seemed decent also, so thought I would give it a try.
I do most of my driving either really easily morning when its dark, or on way home, which is also dark.. so actually this is where I need the camera to work at its best, so I've done most of my testing at night so far.
I was expecting a uplift in quality from the old dash camera, but I'm not really seeing it, but as people rave about these A119 V3 maybe I'm doing something wrong in the set up.
From memory I'm running it closest to its native resolution at 2560x1440p 30fps, high bit rate, no exposure compensation (however I have tried lowering it to see if it gave better faster shutter speeds), no HDR/WDR (As I noticed crazy banding with this option).
I've also realised where the DOD sits away from the screen and as such is hardly affected by the rain, the A119 V3 being right up against the screen causes the rain to lens the image and cause my distortion (something I didn't think about before buying it).
At the start of the video its very blurry, but this is because its close to the screen and shows the difference how they both deal with the same problem.. however towards the end it seems to leave out.
Finally, I wasn't expecting it to be like an Arri Alexa, but I was expecting an improvement over such an old camera.
Any help welcome, if this is normal, then I might look at something better (if it actually exists)
I have had a DOD LS470W+ in my car for many years, maybe 2015 I got it, so when I looked into getting a new camera I thought the cameras would be like 2-3 generations on, kinda surprised they all look about the same. Seems like its more about features then video quality, which seems backwards to me, but oh well.
Anyways did a bit of research and the A119 V3 came up as a solid choice, and the price seemed decent also, so thought I would give it a try.
I do most of my driving either really easily morning when its dark, or on way home, which is also dark.. so actually this is where I need the camera to work at its best, so I've done most of my testing at night so far.
I was expecting a uplift in quality from the old dash camera, but I'm not really seeing it, but as people rave about these A119 V3 maybe I'm doing something wrong in the set up.
From memory I'm running it closest to its native resolution at 2560x1440p 30fps, high bit rate, no exposure compensation (however I have tried lowering it to see if it gave better faster shutter speeds), no HDR/WDR (As I noticed crazy banding with this option).
I've also realised where the DOD sits away from the screen and as such is hardly affected by the rain, the A119 V3 being right up against the screen causes the rain to lens the image and cause my distortion (something I didn't think about before buying it).
At the start of the video its very blurry, but this is because its close to the screen and shows the difference how they both deal with the same problem.. however towards the end it seems to leave out.
Finally, I wasn't expecting it to be like an Arri Alexa, but I was expecting an improvement over such an old camera.
Any help welcome, if this is normal, then I might look at something better (if it actually exists)
