kamkar
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So for a while as you might know i have been on and on about my x camera fitted with the 8 mm lens, and i have claimed i feel like the chance of capturing a plate in low light ( not darkness ) is higher with the 8 mm lens.
So to backup my claim i have been compiling a little footage to prove my claim.
First off the raw stuff.
The wide angle footage is from my mobius 2 camera and it too record in 1080/60 and the bitrate is 25 mbit
Yeah i know the mobius 2 is a new cam and it need improvement, but i an quite sure if i was to go to my car and get the footage off my SG9665GC the number of plate captures will be no or only little better.
At this stage its not so much about the camera i think, plate capture even on the best performing dashcams is a pain in a situation like this.
The narrow angle footage is off the x camera fitted with the 8 mm lens, dont have the specs on that lens but its a whole lot more narrow than any wide angle camera.
The camera is recording in 1080/60 too and the bitrate is 18 mbit.
yes i know 25 and 18 mbit is not the same but with the latest x-cam august 16 ( beta firmware ) that's what high bitrate setting give you.
On the other hand the 25 mbit of the M2 camera is from the low setting ( 3 lowest bitrate setting in the GUI )
If we was to be anal about i should have run the M2 with the highest bitrate setting just like the x camera, but that would widen the bitrate even more, and i am a nice guy and the M2 is not a bad camera so it can hold its own.
Anyways both cameras use H264 and newest firmware's, in the case of the mobius 2 that's the newest beat driver not really available to the general public.
So first the 2 recordings after movie maker and youtube have done all they can to ruin otherwise okay footage, this means the footage is only 30 FPS here and so on.
So for you here is the 2 raw clips, only cut down to size using registrator viewer.
https://mega.nz/#!z8YF3RKL!bM3dv9x3KzopeaP7nKcpiF-DzjspGo72FotbedzLHAA
https://mega.nz/#!7s5SnIrb!FX_W1wrdBwyzgDC9UazAaNzZBIiG1IILOn_3T4kXn0w
Yeah i know even with the 8 mm lens some of the cars are almost not readable, but in the M2 footage they are just a blur, at least the last handful of cars.
I still think there is something to my claim, so until some one can proof otherwise i will remain a fan of a secondary narrow FOV camera in the windscreen for those low light situations, and trust me there is a lot of those for any dashcam anywhere in the world.
So to backup my claim i have been compiling a little footage to prove my claim.
First off the raw stuff.
The wide angle footage is from my mobius 2 camera and it too record in 1080/60 and the bitrate is 25 mbit
Yeah i know the mobius 2 is a new cam and it need improvement, but i an quite sure if i was to go to my car and get the footage off my SG9665GC the number of plate captures will be no or only little better.
At this stage its not so much about the camera i think, plate capture even on the best performing dashcams is a pain in a situation like this.
The narrow angle footage is off the x camera fitted with the 8 mm lens, dont have the specs on that lens but its a whole lot more narrow than any wide angle camera.
The camera is recording in 1080/60 too and the bitrate is 18 mbit.
yes i know 25 and 18 mbit is not the same but with the latest x-cam august 16 ( beta firmware ) that's what high bitrate setting give you.
On the other hand the 25 mbit of the M2 camera is from the low setting ( 3 lowest bitrate setting in the GUI )
If we was to be anal about i should have run the M2 with the highest bitrate setting just like the x camera, but that would widen the bitrate even more, and i am a nice guy and the M2 is not a bad camera so it can hold its own.
Anyways both cameras use H264 and newest firmware's, in the case of the mobius 2 that's the newest beat driver not really available to the general public.
So first the 2 recordings after movie maker and youtube have done all they can to ruin otherwise okay footage, this means the footage is only 30 FPS here and so on.
So for you here is the 2 raw clips, only cut down to size using registrator viewer.
https://mega.nz/#!z8YF3RKL!bM3dv9x3KzopeaP7nKcpiF-DzjspGo72FotbedzLHAA
https://mega.nz/#!7s5SnIrb!FX_W1wrdBwyzgDC9UazAaNzZBIiG1IILOn_3T4kXn0w
Yeah i know even with the 8 mm lens some of the cars are almost not readable, but in the M2 footage they are just a blur, at least the last handful of cars.
I still think there is something to my claim, so until some one can proof otherwise i will remain a fan of a secondary narrow FOV camera in the windscreen for those low light situations, and trust me there is a lot of those for any dashcam anywhere in the world.
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