For my purposes, a side cam that can identify a face at 3-4meters is good enough as that will clearly show any vehicle well enough to have my front or rear cam identify it as the same car when it passes. Mine are 1080P30, but TBH I'd probably be just as happy if they were 720P30. You can get cams like that very cheaply so why not? Just know that you will end up wanting that in every car you own once you start- dashcams can be addicting!
Phil
My plans (subject to change) are to have a 1080p 30 cam in the rear drivers door (installed). After I add another power socket the G1W-S looking over the third brake light as it has good night vision. A cheap1080p (probably recording at 720p) mirror cam (with a mobius maxi next to it) up front and the 480p included cam on the passengers side rear door. I wish I had a 2 door (they never made) instead of a 4 door or an older car that had side glass in the quarter panel behind the rear doors. I had to stick a mount on the door panel in my car. It does not help that the designer wanted to have a curved surface on the entire top portion of the door panel making applying a 1" wide mount much tougher than it should be. Using an opening car door adds extra challenges. Using a coiled usb wire only resulted in the cable trying to pull the mount off the door panel.
Yes, this is a wedge cam mounted upside down on the door panel using a non-wedge cam mount. I had to modify (file down to size) the tmount to fit this cam. When I was done I had a gap that I corrected by using the cut off end of a plastic knife as a wedge. The cable clamp glued on top of the cam hides the wire better and keeps the wire in place as does the other one you can see. The wire moves when the door is opened or shut without ending up in the door opening. For more stealth a white cable and camera would be preferred based on my cars interior color.
Here is the original upside down footage. At around 15 seconds it seems that my cam had a serious problem. It is an illusion created when trees are filmed at speed upside down.
This just shows how perspective from a side view cam does not match the perspective recorded from the drivers seat.
Installing 4 cams in my dodge ram club cab (no back doors) will be much easier. The (factory tinted) club cab windows have a deep ledge going out to the side panels. The windows have solid black on the outside edge that should allow a mount to be glued on without being seen. Either area should easily hold a camera while the tinted side windows will make any cam installation almost impossible to see.
My actual dodge ram that needed a bath..
Those big hips over the rear tires need bigger than stock mirrors to see past.
I installed these mirrors for visibility especially needed when towing.
These mirrors are electrically operated allowing in, out, up, down, and sideways adjustments from the drivers seat.
A bigger picture of a ram 3500 I found online that I slightly personalized.
I will probably hang a cam off the sliding rear window frame to see what happens behind me. The back cam will be pretty much useless when my fifth wheel gets hauled. Yup...I captured and saved 1,834 miles of footage. The white color of the front of my trailer can not be denied. What did you ask, what else did I see? That cam saw nothing else except for 3 or 4 feet of the side of cars passing me.