SawMaster
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Best practices? All I can think of is to try different exposure settings at night and see if WDR affects plate capture then. 30FPS seems to be the sweet spot for most sensors regards motion blurring. That may help at night too if it adds exposure time but that can work against you with plate reflections. One of the things I've noticed is the intensely bright headlights of today's cars works against you at night by altering automatic exposure changes except sometimes with cars a bit ahead of you but not too close. Improving overall recording at night may work against plate capture where high contrast can be your friend. That plays a part in daytime too. What is best for one won't always be best for the other.
There is really no solution available unless you can stop the world long enough to change settings for the situation or have multiple cams with different settings in use. Even then there will be plates you simply cannot get for various reasons. There is no perfect solution, for if there was the cam manufacturer who had it would soon be the only one left in the business. Plate capture is the "holy grail" of dashcams and just as elusive to find.
Phil
There is really no solution available unless you can stop the world long enough to change settings for the situation or have multiple cams with different settings in use. Even then there will be plates you simply cannot get for various reasons. There is no perfect solution, for if there was the cam manufacturer who had it would soon be the only one left in the business. Plate capture is the "holy grail" of dashcams and just as elusive to find.
Phil
