Hi,
it's funny how the telepathy is working?! We are ALL connected ;-)
I was looking at your video over youtube, and lost a lot of time to found and finally recovered my password there in order to be able to ask you do you have attention to check the focus drifts and refocusing of the A119S V2 and you're writing here with the answer lol.
yes I've created the service ticket at Viofo and kindly asked them if possible to do DIY, so receive the lens Module.
it's not possible and viofo asks the dashcam to be sent to them.
Sending items from China to France is not expensive, and I've thought is more simple, but sending from France to China is really costly.
so I'll try to ask them again, 3rd trial, but if they insist for the 3rd time to receive the dashcam back I'm afraid that my Viofo experience will be stopped here if no other solution or fix.
It was interesting for me to try to fix it and if not possible with some spares I'll not wait 2 months without the dashcam, sending to China... I'll find more serious manufacturer next time if no happy end in this case.
Maybe I'll send it back to Amazon, in France Viofo has bad reviews anyway, so one more or less from my side will not change sales for Viofo.
Maybe I'll try to refocus it, but if you're right and there is the damage on the module it will be more tricky.
BTW I have an another A119S V2 and this one has the similar problem of the temperature focus drift. When I compare between two of them, both have the focus drift, one is more pronounced and can be seen easily, and another is visible but not so shocking.
Both of them have the good focus at the start up / cold state.
So I don't believe a lot in the damaged lens, OK could be with both if I am not lucky, but at that point...could be something else. Viofo do probably the focus in cold stage, and more or less of the drift brings the result more or less visible.
Thanks again, and if you do the refocusing of the lens V2 and you post your video on youtube, inform us here please.
Cheers
Ivan
PS : BTW, if i'm not wrong the V2 is F1.6 coated; and the V1 is 1.8 non coated (on youtube you've permuted values ;-))