I guess if the horizon line is in the center of the frame, the metering will work more accurately......low sun to one side, in and out of shadows...
Not exactly, it will make the number plates overexposure at night if the metering horizon line in the center only;I guess if the horizon line is in the center of the frame, the metering will work more accurately...
Agree. Need to adjust the point a litter higher!I got that feeling too about Phil's camera being pointed much down
The right or left side of the metering grid does not make much difference.TBH i have been wondering if it would make any sense / gain to make metering tables for a camera, regarding if it is used in a a country with left or right hand drive traffic.
But maybe it is better to not skew metering towards one side as after all in traffic bad things often happen on the wrong side.
Next step is some AI. On a 2 way road, it can detect cars coming the other way and expose for best IQ and least motion blur on their number plates as they pass, then when they have passed it can change the exposure back to the road in front, or if there is a car in front then it can set the exposure for the number plate on the car in front.TBH i have been wondering if it would make any sense / gain to make metering tables for a camera, regarding if it is used in a a country with left or right hand drive traffic.
But maybe it is better to not skew metering towards one side as after all in traffic bad things often happen on the wrong side.
I do wish the reverse would happen with some of the people I know In which case I'd invite them to lean against my van most willingly Now THAT would make for some interesting vids from my rear camsAt least your van will not burst into fire the moment someone lean up against the back of it
I had the same problem. The notches for the mount make the cam either to high or to low for my window. If they had more notches you can fine tune to where you want the camera pointed. Pointed high the vid was washed out for sky and made the cars on the road really dark. Pointed down added to much glare and things not being in focus that great. Is it me or is it hard to get the cam on and off the mount? I end up pulling the mount off the window a few times even trying to hold it in place to remove the camera.This cam is pointed downward more than my others due to the notches in the mount. It's either this or aimed too high so this is the better choice. And though you can't really see it in this vid (or maybe you can?) the curvature of my windshield acts something like a lens with the sun low to one side. It was really lighting up the dashboard. My own eyes weren't seeing much better than this TBH.
This is nearly a "perfect storm" for dashcamming, almost as bad as driving directly into a low sun. IMHO this cam is handling the exposure quite well compared to many other cams I've tried, especially with the dramatic changes between light and dark. I'll grab and post another vid today in more normal conditions which should better show how the IQ improvements are working. I'd planned to do that yesterday but I was a bit unwell and I didn't go out.
Phil
making the adjustments is something that they can do easily, knowing what adjustments to make is where they will have problemsTBH it feel like many dashcam brands do not have the resources to tune the metering table,
Thanks for the report! Will ask our engineer to double-check!As to the coarse notches I do think that could be done better, though fixing that would require making 2 new molds which wouldn't be a small cost.