garrycol
Member
I have a 0816 watching out the front of the car and a 0805 looking out the back - both are set to 2304x1295 resolution as I figured that in an incident where I needed to freeze frames to view registration numbers with the highest resolution I would be able to do it when the target was some distance away.
Today I had an incident where two cars up in front of me had a coming together and one took off passing me going the other way - tracked the car as it came towards me then as it went away - all caught on the dash cam but neither at the front or the rear was I able to read the number plate.
From the front - the silver car about 20' away zooming in does not help
From the rear - zooming in does not help reading the number plate of the silver car but the blue car is easily read. The camera was looking straight at the blue car but the silver one is a fair way to the left.
This is the first time I have really needed to use the dash cam for an accident and while the general vision is moving vision is available and OK, it is not good enough to read the number plate of the silver car even when the movie and still pics are zoomed in. So it has failed my needs.
Replicator works Ok but resolution is lost when you zoom in - also tried a few other apps without success. Even tried the old Apple Quick Time that will view the movie in native resolution of 2304X1295 but the view is 4x the size of the computer screen but you cannot move the section of the image that you want onto the screen.
Also - resolution would seem to be best what the camera is looking at like the blue car but not so good at its extremities which I guess it understandable.
Is there any other software I could use to get a better look at the number plate. As it is the two Minicams have failed their first real tests where specific identification of a number plate was needed. Maybe I should just rig up my Samsung phone as I am sure it would have got the number plate.
As far as dash cams are concerned maybe I need to upgrade to something that has similar resolution but will give better real life results - open to suggestions.
Thanks
Garry
Today I had an incident where two cars up in front of me had a coming together and one took off passing me going the other way - tracked the car as it came towards me then as it went away - all caught on the dash cam but neither at the front or the rear was I able to read the number plate.
From the front - the silver car about 20' away zooming in does not help
From the rear - zooming in does not help reading the number plate of the silver car but the blue car is easily read. The camera was looking straight at the blue car but the silver one is a fair way to the left.
This is the first time I have really needed to use the dash cam for an accident and while the general vision is moving vision is available and OK, it is not good enough to read the number plate of the silver car even when the movie and still pics are zoomed in. So it has failed my needs.
Replicator works Ok but resolution is lost when you zoom in - also tried a few other apps without success. Even tried the old Apple Quick Time that will view the movie in native resolution of 2304X1295 but the view is 4x the size of the computer screen but you cannot move the section of the image that you want onto the screen.
Also - resolution would seem to be best what the camera is looking at like the blue car but not so good at its extremities which I guess it understandable.
Is there any other software I could use to get a better look at the number plate. As it is the two Minicams have failed their first real tests where specific identification of a number plate was needed. Maybe I should just rig up my Samsung phone as I am sure it would have got the number plate.
As far as dash cams are concerned maybe I need to upgrade to something that has similar resolution but will give better real life results - open to suggestions.
Thanks
Garry