Shep
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- Dash Cam
- LG: Street Guardian; SM: Mobius
Long time lurker, first time poster here.
Back story:
I've done a lot of research and originally settled on Panorama X2 setup for both of my cars - three dash cams total (one's a parade car). One unit kept rebooting on me in a cycle, however even after disconnecting it, the remaining two units caused a variety of dead batteries due to parking mode not adhering to the low voltage dropout I had set. I'm talking multiple completely dead Optima Red Tops in under 12 hours (LED lights wouldn't even come on).
I've replaced all three X2 cams (still have them actually) with a single Thinkware F750 plus rear camera. I was quite happy with it's features, among them being the Android app compatibility, GPS, dual save, incident recording, 128+ GB card capacity, and relatively low boot time (until it whines with "please format memory card for data integrity" and goes from under 10 seconds to over 30 -- don't know if the latest firmware fixed that yet though).
My viewpoint may have changed however as I was rear-ended at night on 2/23 (i.e. a couple days ago), and the impact footage, from what I reviewed, wasn't good enough to clearly see inside the vehicle due to a huge amount of headlight glare it seems, although general video quality could be a problem also. Vehicle speeds were low enough to be likely my crawling 0-3 MPH to their 5-15 MPH (stop and go traffic), they only had about 10 yards from last full stop to accelerate.
The reason that's a concern is because I was rear-ended a couple years ago too, which was an early morning (nighttime) drive, and I'm 100% convinced the driver who hit me was distracted. I was stopped, they were going 55 MPH plus, and had three-second visibility of me at that rate. It only took one other dumbass driver before I made the decision to buy a dash cam, in the hopes I could prove the next driver who hit me was distracted.
Cutting to the chase!
My ultimate goal is to have a dual dash cam setup that has excellent nighttime video quality. I'm talking enough to tell if someone is texting while driving (extremely prevalent here). Optimally, I could discern this while the speed difference is 40 MPH or greater. I know, that's hard to gauge or test, but I'm hoping "best nighttime quality" will help. Unless there's a better description of what to look for (feel free to chime in on that one, I'm still pretty new at this).
What's the absolute best dual camera setup for nighttime driving, particularly for rear-facing cameras? Two single-channel cameras would work if there's a noticeable quality difference to be had.
Back story:
I've done a lot of research and originally settled on Panorama X2 setup for both of my cars - three dash cams total (one's a parade car). One unit kept rebooting on me in a cycle, however even after disconnecting it, the remaining two units caused a variety of dead batteries due to parking mode not adhering to the low voltage dropout I had set. I'm talking multiple completely dead Optima Red Tops in under 12 hours (LED lights wouldn't even come on).
I've replaced all three X2 cams (still have them actually) with a single Thinkware F750 plus rear camera. I was quite happy with it's features, among them being the Android app compatibility, GPS, dual save, incident recording, 128+ GB card capacity, and relatively low boot time (until it whines with "please format memory card for data integrity" and goes from under 10 seconds to over 30 -- don't know if the latest firmware fixed that yet though).
My viewpoint may have changed however as I was rear-ended at night on 2/23 (i.e. a couple days ago), and the impact footage, from what I reviewed, wasn't good enough to clearly see inside the vehicle due to a huge amount of headlight glare it seems, although general video quality could be a problem also. Vehicle speeds were low enough to be likely my crawling 0-3 MPH to their 5-15 MPH (stop and go traffic), they only had about 10 yards from last full stop to accelerate.
The reason that's a concern is because I was rear-ended a couple years ago too, which was an early morning (nighttime) drive, and I'm 100% convinced the driver who hit me was distracted. I was stopped, they were going 55 MPH plus, and had three-second visibility of me at that rate. It only took one other dumbass driver before I made the decision to buy a dash cam, in the hopes I could prove the next driver who hit me was distracted.
Cutting to the chase!
My ultimate goal is to have a dual dash cam setup that has excellent nighttime video quality. I'm talking enough to tell if someone is texting while driving (extremely prevalent here). Optimally, I could discern this while the speed difference is 40 MPH or greater. I know, that's hard to gauge or test, but I'm hoping "best nighttime quality" will help. Unless there's a better description of what to look for (feel free to chime in on that one, I'm still pretty new at this).
What's the absolute best dual camera setup for nighttime driving, particularly for rear-facing cameras? Two single-channel cameras would work if there's a noticeable quality difference to be had.