Powerucc Panorama S

spotnz said:
Micro cards don't work well in Panorama cameras, and are regarded as BAD News. see

david
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Yes, I know, but this is because of temperature conditions, right? We had +2 Celsius degrees here yesterday. Just two degrees above water freeze. Also card does not work in cold camera and another microSD works just fine.
 
I'm not geek'ish enough to give a hi-tech reason.

My low-tech deduction, is the link between the card & full size adapter is not as quick as the camera to card transfer requires.
 
spotnz said:
I'm not geek'ish enough to give a hi-tech reason.

My low-tech deduction, is the link between the card & full size adapter is not as quick as the camera to card transfer requires.
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It is quick enough. It is suitable for heavy card tests both reading and writing. Yes, wiring may affect some timings and it may require driver adaptation. It is very hard to write a driver which supports all the cards properly. But as a lower level consumer electronics engineer I believe in my case it is most probably a camera software problem. However I understand, that PowerUCC took ready reference platform with OS and just made some modifications. Camera manufacturer may push on platform manufacturer in case of mass problems, but it is hard to fix rare problems like instability with some SD cards when same memory card model works just fine in same model camera owned by another consumer in another country.
 
How good and tight is mount with 3M sticker? I mean if I have to remove it from windscreen will mount come off without it breaks? Is there place where can buy that same mount?

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It is easy to remove mount from the windshield by turning slowly the mount in the plane of windshield.
 
When I used the original supplied 3M tape I had stuck it onto a plastic part of my dash. Two weeks later when I went to remove I nearly broke the plastic bracket, it was that strong :p I didn't use the string method, though, but I know it works. Fishing line or dental floss works really well. Using a mild heat gun can also assist in taking it off.
On the plus side I'm confident that it'll last a long time on my windscreen.
 
alexsoll said:
after additional focus lens

original: http://yadi.sk/d/T4W1BhNmMShoM

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Did you 'focus' your lens? It looks beautiful. I'm STILL waiting for my CPL filter to arrive, ordered over a month ago. Mine wont read number plates at all. Completely blurry. I am using the latest 21mbps firmware on my Pano IIS. Should I step it down to 12 or 15? I would really like to be able to read plates as they pass. Here are some pics of me at 5MPH and a car going past at about 10MPH and I can't even read the plate. I did do the 3D glasses polarizer trick and have it mounted on my camera now, it greatly reduces glare, but maybe its hurting the picture for plates? Or is it the 21 MBPS??? These pictures are not zoomed in at all and playing from the raw file. . . should be clearer than this right???

plate 2.JPG plate.JPG
 
Chad said:
Did you 'focus' your lens? It looks beautiful. I'm STILL waiting for my CPL filter to arrive, ordered over a month ago. Mine wont read number plates at all. Completely blurry. I am using the latest 21mbps firmware on my Pano IIS. Should I step it down to 12 or 15? I would really like to be able to read plates as they pass. Here are some pics of me at 5MPH and a car going past at about 10MPH and I can't even read the plate. I did do the 3D glasses polarizer trick and have it mounted on my camera now, it greatly reduces glare, but maybe its hurting the picture for plates? Or is it the 21 MBPS??? These pictures are not zoomed in at all and playing from the raw file. . . should be clearer than this right???

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I dont think its out of focus, its more about your and bmw driving between trees, from lighten area into shadow area where CPU and FW work hard to adjust colours, awb etc, - this is the most difficult scenario for ALL dashcams even you think its daytime, still its very hard situation. I would say driving beside trees at day time is the most hardest at the moment. Try driving in daytime in some shopping centre car park passing by parked cars or at daytime ( no trees around ) in city, with different speed and you see that it reads numberplates well. Also maybe 21Mbps is too much. After few weeks side by side testing / comparing 15, 18, 21 I chose for myself 15mbps ( maybe 18mbps would be max but 21 I think its too much and doesnt give much visible to human eye advantage in this stage at the moment ).
 
OK, here is 12mbps firmware, filter removed, 1080p 30fps, going half the speed (40mph) as @alexsoll and again, complete blurr.

plate 3.JPG

Another example going about 50MPH . . .

plate 4.JPG

Here is a car directly in front of me, about 2 car lengths, traveling at the same speed as I am. When I zoom in, complete blurr.

plate 5.JPG

Zoomed in a little bit. . .

plate zoom.JPG

I wasn't expecting it to be movie cinema quality, however after looking at @alexsoll images going 110+Kph those images are crystal clear. Could the CPL make that much of a difference???
 
Here is alex going about 71MPH . . .

plate clear.JPG
 
To check focus, just stop your car in car park where in front of you ( 1 car length away ) other cars parked in the row. You should be able to see 5 car numberplates ( centre car and two side cars ).

Below is from 2 car distance, but you need to drive closer about to 1 car distance from centre car and then see if you car record numberplates of cars 1,2,3,4,5 ( no 3 car is centre car )

pano2.jpg


Pano3.jpg

Pano2a.jpg
 
Thanks for your help guys . . . here are some files. All of them are 1080p 30fps. The first one is WITH polarizing filter. Second one is without, and third is also without lens parked about a car length away from a few parked cars. I realize U.S. licence plates are smaller, BUT...if you look at the car in motion in all of alexsoll's pictures the car itself is clear. When you pause my videos even the car is blurry. What is more troubling for me right now, however is when I got home to upload these files, there was one file that was blank. It had only 132kb of data for a two minute video. Which was probably just the GPS data, etc. It played in datakam viewer, showing the map moving, and speed, but the screen was blank!! Then it kept crashing the viewer when I tried to replay it. Reliability is a HUGE issue for me. I'm the type of guy that has the worst luck, if I ever needed a video clip, it would be THE only one that was corrupt out of the whole trip.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kt7p1i1wh...0510_163112 (7) (4-35-07 PM - 4-36-23 PM).MP4

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6969lx64h...510_190406 (18) (7-10-21 PM - 7-10-57 PM).MP4

https://www.dropbox.com/s/11izum212...510_190406 (18) (7-43-53 PM - 7-44-17 PM).MP4
 
Here are some more samples from a sunny day . . . Is there a better way for me to upload or share raw files?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p7qtmraysu49zd7/Pano Sample.MP4

https://www.dropbox.com/s/67m00dwg1hp3186/Pano Sample 2.MP4

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vv7wg1m02g0tzfg/Pano Sample 3.MP4

This one is a parking lot, first with filter, then with filter removed
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d1l1zinxnbw91g/Parked Cars.mp4

I'm curious if @alexsoll can provide a sample of license plates with and without filter. I'm wondering if it makes that much of a difference in clarity of reading the plate??
 
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