GJHS
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I've owned my Mobius for about 10 months now and am as happy with it now as I was day one. It has yet to let me down and continues to impress me. When I bought mine, it came with v0.59 installed and the performance was very good, day and night. Well now, we are up to v2.10 and we have a lot of new features and choices. There have been so many upgrades in the last year, it's too much to list. Who knew how versatile this little camera could be? A huge thanks to @Isoprop, Tom Frank and therau2000 for all their hard work, for keeping the upgrades coming steadily and keeping us guessing as to what they're going to give us next. Another huge thanks to @Isoprop for his support of this forum.
After reading so many posts about the different performance from older firmwares, I decided to temporarily go back to what I think may be the sweet spot. So, I put my Mobius back to v0.059, because even though I'm really impressed with all that v2.10 has, I wasn't impressed with the newer night performance.
Here's my take on the different versions
V0.59 is the sweet spot. Day performance: Very Good, Night performance: the Best yet. For me v0.59 had the sharpest, most reliable night performance. Yes it wasn't without problems. There was color shifting and start up issues and even card compatibility issues, yet for me they were very minor. I even liked the saturated colors.
V1.13 was one of the two "Big Steps" and rightfully so, it brought big changes, namely Motion Detect. Gone were the saturated colors, replaced by a more natural color and user selectable choices, a bunch of them. Everything seemed more polished and really well thought out. For me v1.13 didn't fix the color shifting and I liked the previous colors, so except for Motion Detect, v1.13 wasn't so big for me. The only real problem in v1.13 was the card compatibility issues that was now affecting more users. Thankfully my SanDisk worked great.
V1.17 was the"Fix", the quickly introduced firmware to fix the card compatibility issues and showing the development team listens. And for those having card issues, it did fix them. The only problem was that the people that previously didn't have card issues and upgraded to v1.17 were now having them. Most people on v1.13, that weren't having card issues just skipped this version.
V1.20 was the "Fix of the Fix" with a surprise. V1.20 fixed everything and proved that the Mobius team is one of the best. The surprise came in the form of a new setting: WDR Low Light, which for some was now the best low light performance of all time and for me, not quite. Low light brought flashing at night from different, changing lighting entering the scene. Some scenes were brighter yet the flashing was distracting.
V2.10 was the second "Big Step" and the development team really showed what they could do with this one. If you asked for something in the past and it was possible, it's in this version. I have to say v2.10 truly showed the development team was listening and delivered. There are too many options to list and gave the user more control. The key change for me was truly having 2-3 user programmable modes that had almost every option you could want and you could control on the camera using the mode button. The start up performance for me was now flawless. The only problem was the night time performance was at it's worse for me. Looking back, it was slowly getting worse after v0.59.
I'm hoping they improve the night performance, that's the only thing that I think needs to be improved. Isoprop had mentioned that the developer reads the forums, so I figured rather than pulling all the different firmware posts from different places, we could use this to share your favorite firmware so far, which one your using now and what still is needing to be improved. Right now I'm keeping v0.59 for the night performance and really missing the Motion Detect. I'm happy I have so many usable, good choices in firmware versions to choose from
After reading so many posts about the different performance from older firmwares, I decided to temporarily go back to what I think may be the sweet spot. So, I put my Mobius back to v0.059, because even though I'm really impressed with all that v2.10 has, I wasn't impressed with the newer night performance.
Here's my take on the different versions
V0.59 is the sweet spot. Day performance: Very Good, Night performance: the Best yet. For me v0.59 had the sharpest, most reliable night performance. Yes it wasn't without problems. There was color shifting and start up issues and even card compatibility issues, yet for me they were very minor. I even liked the saturated colors.
V1.13 was one of the two "Big Steps" and rightfully so, it brought big changes, namely Motion Detect. Gone were the saturated colors, replaced by a more natural color and user selectable choices, a bunch of them. Everything seemed more polished and really well thought out. For me v1.13 didn't fix the color shifting and I liked the previous colors, so except for Motion Detect, v1.13 wasn't so big for me. The only real problem in v1.13 was the card compatibility issues that was now affecting more users. Thankfully my SanDisk worked great.
V1.17 was the"Fix", the quickly introduced firmware to fix the card compatibility issues and showing the development team listens. And for those having card issues, it did fix them. The only problem was that the people that previously didn't have card issues and upgraded to v1.17 were now having them. Most people on v1.13, that weren't having card issues just skipped this version.
V1.20 was the "Fix of the Fix" with a surprise. V1.20 fixed everything and proved that the Mobius team is one of the best. The surprise came in the form of a new setting: WDR Low Light, which for some was now the best low light performance of all time and for me, not quite. Low light brought flashing at night from different, changing lighting entering the scene. Some scenes were brighter yet the flashing was distracting.
V2.10 was the second "Big Step" and the development team really showed what they could do with this one. If you asked for something in the past and it was possible, it's in this version. I have to say v2.10 truly showed the development team was listening and delivered. There are too many options to list and gave the user more control. The key change for me was truly having 2-3 user programmable modes that had almost every option you could want and you could control on the camera using the mode button. The start up performance for me was now flawless. The only problem was the night time performance was at it's worse for me. Looking back, it was slowly getting worse after v0.59.
I'm hoping they improve the night performance, that's the only thing that I think needs to be improved. Isoprop had mentioned that the developer reads the forums, so I figured rather than pulling all the different firmware posts from different places, we could use this to share your favorite firmware so far, which one your using now and what still is needing to be improved. Right now I'm keeping v0.59 for the night performance and really missing the Motion Detect. I'm happy I have so many usable, good choices in firmware versions to choose from
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