You should never rely on a dashcam getting a plate capture, cuz sadly the technology are not there yet, and least at all at night or low light conditions.
This time of the year in Denmark on the highway doing 55 MPH and the on coming cars do the same, well as we have cloud cover most of the time there are pretty much no captures for me, only if the skies clear up and there is a little sun can i get a plate at those highway speeds ( A danish highway are 2 lanes one in each direction )
The best low light performing sensors in dashcams at the moment are the Sony IMX 291 sensors, but these also easy fall short even in the best and most optimized cameras.
And optimized are where gains can be made but by far most cameras are running pretty stock settings, and not much are made in regard to better it, though there are decent gains to be made.
If you focus too much on plate capture i can pretty much guarantee you any camera you buy will let you down.
If you browse backwards in this thread, you can see modders working on a SG camera, and getting pretty clear to see results, but to be honest i doubt that will make the camera a much better plate capture camera.
CUZ i am willing to bet the cameras are still using 1:30 second exposure times, and really that is far too slow a exposure to get a reasonable sharp at anything moving faster then a baby can crawl.
Changing my appearance to Russia i have watched the video :) If Denmark worked a cop would have pulled over that smoking truck and sent him to inspection, but Denmark dont work at the moment so if a cop saw a truck like that he would just look the other way. I think we Danes need to stop voting...
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you can see some night footage from a car driving in a town and clearly it capture plates just fine, but if you pause and think about what you look at then it make sense.
The camera car and target car have pretty small differences in speed, and most often these are also recorded in a town with a high ambient level of light.
But thats also a far cry from any Danish town street at least, and even more so the speed at which cars often move in relation to each other.
And on a good day, well pretty much any camera can get a plate capture, at least 90% of times, but then drive into the shade of a building or high trees lining the road, and suddenly though mid summer and slear skies and sunshine, well not where you drive right now in the shade and at once a plate capture get next to impossible if the speeds are still the same.
In sunshine i get plates left and right.
Additionally you Americans have severe issues in this regard.
1: often only 1 plate on cars
2: smaller writing and graphics on the plate too
Making it much harder to deal with than big old EU plates like i deal with
