Possible defective DR500GW-HD?

[Hillbilly]

If you read the forums they tell you to have only 1/3 sky The Blackvue insignia on the end is to enable you to orient the camera correctly.

Make that point down about 7 degrees and it will be about right. ITS IN THE MANUAL


Everyone blames the cameras. I reckon its a lot of ID ten T syndrome

 

[jonpickles]

I think sometimes when people watch it back on pc it can be that your graphics card may not be able to show the quality even though it's there

 

[Hillbilly]

Would be a pretty poor PC that has a graphics card that cant handle a video like the camera produces.

My Monitor has 1920 x 1080 and its nearly 3 years old

 

[mollydog]

dirty tactics like that annoy me

totally agree with this, its not as if Blackvue's DVR's were/are cheap, they were asking top dollar for their DVR's with results from my very cheap £39 no name chinese DVR producing just as good results that put Blackvue's DR500GW costing me £279 to shame, never again will Blackvue be getting any of my money

 

[jonpickles]

279? should of got it from here

http://www.blackvuehd.co.uk/Blackvue_DR500GW_Wifi.php

 

[mollydog]

thank you for the link, not that I'll be buying another Blackvue product, sadly it wasn't that price in February 2013 (yes one year ago this month), I suppose the price had to come down as word spread they just wen't worth the asking price

 

[Yeshua]

High compression = 5 Mbps
Normal compression = 7,5 Mbps

I think the default compression rate was High.

By "compression" you mean "Image Quality" ? As far as I can see there are no "compression" settings found under Settings... I found a screenshot of those compression settings on the Web, but I don't have them. This is the menu I get:

 

[Yeshua]

If you read the forums they tell you to have only 1/3 sky The Blackvue insignia on the end is to enable you to orient the camera correctly.

Make that point down about 7 degrees and it will be about right. ITS IN THE MANUAL


Everyone blames the cameras. I reckon its a lot of ID ten T syndrome

Where exactly in the manual? I'm not an idiot (well, I'd like to think I'm not), but the BlackVue DR500GW-HD Manual V4.03 only says "Adjust the lens angle of the camera." (page 16) I searched the PDF for "angle" and there's nothing to be found about a 7 degrees angle.

 

[Hillbilly]

Where exactly in the manual? I'm not an idiot (well, I'd like to think I'm not), but the BlackVue DR500GW-HD Manual V4.03 only says "Adjust the lens angle of the camera." (page 16) I searched the PDF for "angle" and there's nothing to be found about a 7 degrees angle.

Sorry wrong manual Its in the 400 manual where it says to adjust it below horizontal It does show in the 500 to do it like that in a picture without the text It is also spread all over the forum where people have had troubles due to it being aligned too high.

 

[Yeshua]

Sorry wrong manual Its in the 400 manual where it says to adjust it below horizontal It does show in the 500 to do it like that in a picture without the text It is also spread all over the forum where people have had troubles due to it being aligned too high.

I didn't pick up the 7° angle on the forum; my dash cam was set to the horizon. Today I tilted it down one notch (don't know if that's the correct word; it's the markers on the cam). Would you say this is ok? Is it normal to see part of the dashboard?

This is the old setting:

This is the new, one notch down:

I don't know why this second video only shows 360px max. Must have done something wrong during the upload. (?) Aha! Now it's 720px. Apparently, you have to wait a while before HD kicks in?

Edit: ATM 1.080px is available, so it seems you do have have to wait a few minutes...

 

[Hillbilly]

Another notch wouldnt hurt Like this 2/3 road 1/3 sky is about right That is taken in California between San Simeon & LA in a Chrysler 300.

 

[Yeshua]

Another notch wouldnt hurt Like this 2/3 road 1/3 sky is about right That is taken in California between San Simeon & LA in a Chrysler 300.

I don't know; it's a bit too much for my liking. See for yourself:

I drive a Toyota Yaris. Its front is shorter than the Chrysler and I'm also under the impression I have a larger windshield. Anyway, I still think I'm better off with my second choice, but I'll do some reading up on the subject.

Edit: My dash cam vendor has a Facebook page and so I asked my question there. He agreed with Hillbilly (of course he agreed (-: ) : 1/3 sky, 2/3 road, so my third upload should be the best.

Oh well, at least you can see my Funko Yoda Bobble-Head. (-:

 

[Hillbilly]

The problem with the Yaris and Corollas is the long sloping windscreen and the wide dash .

He didn't agree with me LOL 1/3 2/3 is sort of accepted photographic normality.

That looks alright If its too high you get flaring coming out of shadows so what you have should be ok.