ljw2k how about the night footage with the polarizing filter?If you don't mind me saying you need a Polarizing Filter on your camera as you are loosing a lot of detail with the windscreen reflections.
Here is mine with a Hoya 37mm Polarizing filter.
If you don't mind me saying you need a Polarizing Filter on your camera as you are loosing a lot of detail with the windscreen reflections.
Here is mine with a Hoya 37mm Polarizing filter.
That is not true, it is the angle that the light is reflected off the glass when it is traveling from the dashboard, reflecting off the glass and entering the lens that is the important angle and which polarises the light, and that angle does not change when the sun moves. The angle is a little different for the sides of the image than the centre, so if you get the centre perfect then there will still be a little reflection visible at the sides, but basically the light will always be polarised at exactly 90 degrees.The thing is that if i set the CPL to remove the reflection, when the sun / care position changes that setting will not be useful. Is there some other type of polarized filter ?
That is not true, it is the angle that the light is reflected off the glass when it is traveling from the dashboard, reflecting off the glass and entering the lens that is the important angle and which polarises the light, and that angle does not change when the sun moves. The angle is a little different for the sides of the image than the centre, so if you get the centre perfect then there will still be a little reflection visible at the sides, but basically the light will always be polarised at exactly 90 degrees.
That is why polarised sunglasses are always polarised vertically and never have a way to change the angle.
I think your problem may be that you do not have the camera pointing straight forward. The angles are all very important to how the polariser works, even the angle of the glass is important, on a vertical windscreen a CPL will do nothing, it should be around 45 degrees to get the best removal of reflections. Can you mount the camera in the centre of the window facing straight forward?That makes sense, I was to accuse the CPL but when i test it stationary it really works well, that's why I'm puzzled.
I think your problem may be that you do not have the camera pointing straight forward. The angles are all very important to how the polariser works, even the angle of the glass is important, on a vertical windscreen a CPL will do nothing, it should be around 45 degrees to get the best removal of reflections. Can you mount the camera in the centre of the window facing straight forward?
How do attach the filter to your Git1 camera... clean fit or do you need some handy work?HighPro" 37mm CPL. may be the issue as I found when I bought my 37mm adapter it came with a cheap Chinese Polarising filter and it was dreadful. I Use a Hoya Pro Polarising filter which gives much better results but expensive.
curious why you'd leave action cameras in a car, even though they do make excellent dashcams. did the buyer essentially buy the cams from you or something?I have now SOLD my car and left both cameras in ( GIT1 ) I will no doubt be buying a new or a few GIT1's in the near future as I have found nothing comes close to the image quality of this little action cam particular night time footage which impresses me every time I view the footage.
Nice to know you haven't forgot about it since the GIT2 was released and you are still updating the firmware.
Brilliant little product A+++
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