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This is more of a curiosity than a serious suggestion, just because it would take someone with a lot of money and prepared to take a lot of risk to bring it to fruition. However, for a long time I've been extolling the virtues of a large sensor.
Well it seems someone has also had the same idea in the Drone World, namely the manufacturer, Yuneec (I believe the 2nd biggest behind DJI), who've developed a camera called the C23 based on a 1" sensor.
What makes this so special, is that I've seen it reported that it may use components from the Panasonic GH4, which is an excellent performing camera, especially in low light. Whereas I can't verify that, it makes for an interesting proposition / project for someone very rich! The only restriction I can see is the ISO appears to have been locked at 8,000 max. |
It's a $899 / £899 camera which disappoints on pricing from our POV, although given that it comes with a motorised gimbal, I'm going to guess theres a good few hundred $ / £ in the gimbal which probably means that technically the camera alone could be a lot less. There are going to be issues, with adapting such a camera for dashcam use, namely power supply, file writing and mount to name but 3. However, the results are amazing and in my opinion speak wonders for the use of a large high resolution sensor.
Camera specs here: https://www.yuneec.com/en_GB/accessories/cameras/c23/overview.html
Youtube Video here (not the poster reports some colour / saturation adjustment in post editing):
Highly impressive picture though if this is typical:
Well it seems someone has also had the same idea in the Drone World, namely the manufacturer, Yuneec (I believe the 2nd biggest behind DJI), who've developed a camera called the C23 based on a 1" sensor.
What makes this so special, is that I've seen it reported that it may use components from the Panasonic GH4, which is an excellent performing camera, especially in low light. Whereas I can't verify that, it makes for an interesting proposition / project for someone very rich! The only restriction I can see is the ISO appears to have been locked at 8,000 max. |
It's a $899 / £899 camera which disappoints on pricing from our POV, although given that it comes with a motorised gimbal, I'm going to guess theres a good few hundred $ / £ in the gimbal which probably means that technically the camera alone could be a lot less. There are going to be issues, with adapting such a camera for dashcam use, namely power supply, file writing and mount to name but 3. However, the results are amazing and in my opinion speak wonders for the use of a large high resolution sensor.
Camera specs here: https://www.yuneec.com/en_GB/accessories/cameras/c23/overview.html
Youtube Video here (not the poster reports some colour / saturation adjustment in post editing):
Highly impressive picture though if this is typical: