Hi vbx - I said in an earlier post that I would give you some installation pointers, but never quite got to it. In the meantime, you seem to have figured it out for yourself. Good!
Install info is all throughout the thread - you just have to be patient and read a lot!
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Hi clanlessaa - You had questions about whether or not to remove the filter at night, and noted that the filter seemed to make no difference in video quality.
I usually remove the filter at night, since
without the filter,
night-time video seems a bit brighter and has more detail.
Now, regarding the image quality - the filter has to be oriented correctly to reduce the reflection. Position your car so that there are a lot of reflections in your windshield. Then, hold the filter
by itself a short distance in front of your eye and rotate the filter until the reflections (as seen through the filter) disappear. Mark the bottom of the filter in some way. I put on a little yellow sticker. I then place the filter on the dashcam so that the yellow sticker is always at the bottom for maximum reduction in the reflections.
Here is how the dashcam, with the properly oriented filter, looks from the driver's position - note the yellow dot rotated to the bottom:
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Other forum members have posted still photos of video images without and with the filter. Here are my contributions:
Before (no filter), and note the especially bad reflection of the white sheet of paper on the dash:
After (with filter), and note that the white paper is still there, but much less annoying, and the rest of the dash reflections are almost completely gone:
Another before/after pair (guess which is which!):
Cheers, y'all...
