Videos are uploading to Youtube. I'll also try uploading to a storage site for true video quality samples.
Few thoughts and questions in the meantime:
Making a comparison video: Is there a link someone can give me to show me how I can make a comparison video like the ones I've seen around here? I drove around with the K100 and a Mobius at the same time last night and this morning. Would be interesting to both videos one on top of the other for a comparison to one of the more popular cameras around the forums.
WDR: A previous member said that his K100 didn't have WDR? Mine clearly has it in the menus and I did take a video with it off and on. Drove around the same path in each mode so you'll be able to see the difference soon. Did that member get a knockoff of these so early in the game?
Video quality - early impression: It's a heck of a lot better than my F70 knock off of a knock off that records in really poor AVI format.
Build quality:
Few thoughts and questions in the meantime:
Making a comparison video: Is there a link someone can give me to show me how I can make a comparison video like the ones I've seen around here? I drove around with the K100 and a Mobius at the same time last night and this morning. Would be interesting to both videos one on top of the other for a comparison to one of the more popular cameras around the forums.
WDR: A previous member said that his K100 didn't have WDR? Mine clearly has it in the menus and I did take a video with it off and on. Drove around the same path in each mode so you'll be able to see the difference soon. Did that member get a knockoff of these so early in the game?
Video quality - early impression: It's a heck of a lot better than my F70 knock off of a knock off that records in really poor AVI format.
- Daytime is pretty excellent in my eyes, although the Mobius looks to be more true as far as color and picture quality goes. Still, it's a fair trade off to me to get the discreet form factor.
- Night time isn't too shabby either. Again many times better than my F70 junk. Definitely not as clear or correct as the Mobius here but functional enough to me. Doesn't catch license plates at a high rate but you can at least see details in the surrounding areas with WDR on.
Build quality:
- Form factor is decent. The lens itself could use a little more ability to lean to left, right, up and down. The microSD slot is a little tricky to get to while mounted but I can make it work. I'd imagine some sort of an angled tool would help also.
- The recording and charge status light brightness are bit much to me. They glow top center on the face of the rear mirror surface area. Blue for recording, Red for charging. Blue lights up enough to make me look up at it sometimes because it makes me think a police officer is trying to pull me over! The red light behaves strangely while plugged into my cigarette lighter using the included charger unit. It blinks at a low level ( I like the brightness of it here ) but rapidly. And not at a steady pace either. While charging in a wall charger or computer, the red charge light is a much brighter solid red only. Maybe I need to try another mini USB 12v cigarette adapter I have lying around? Either way, it'd be nice if there was a menu option to remove the lights entirely or turn the brightness down on them. If not, I'll have to find some sticker to cover them up.
- Rubber band mount straps. This is a BIG concern for me. I can deal with recording quality drawbacks but if the thing won't stay mounted then I have a useless device. I definitely prefer the extendable arm type mounts for a rear view mirror but figured I could deal with the rubber band look. Strapped it on and it went on using the outermost slots just fine. Unfortunately any type of minor nudging or adjusting seems to make the rubber bands snap. I was simply trying to wiggle the K100 to get more room to remove the microSD and snap! There goes one side. I was able to pull it tighter and use the next slot up on the now broken rubber band. Stayed put until I woke up the next morning and noticed the camera hanging at a strange angle. The next one up snapped also, this time without anyone touching it. Maybe the warm/cold overnight temperature swing made it stretch and shrink? Moved the K100 around and snap, the other side now breaks off. I'm going to contact the vendor to see what can be done but I really hope they move to the more reliable fixed arm type mount system. Anyone have ideas on ways to make a more reliable mounting system on my own?