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Current dash cam setup for your cage?

NorCalAthlete

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What’s everyone rolling these days? I feel like traffic’s just gotten worse and worse and I have had several close calls nearly every week from people cutting me off. Had a jackass yesterday dive across me from the left and proceed straight over 2 more lanes with no signal to catch his exit, and nearly rear ended a semi. That was in the morning. In the afternoon had a motorcycle (hog, Brad pipes, etc) nearly T-bone an ambulance because while we all stopped for it, he apparently was only focusing on the green light for our direction. Locked up his rear tire right next to me while he was still in between 2 lanes of traffic, he’s lucky he didn’t fishtail and catch someone’s side. And that’s not even counting all the people drinking their morning coffee with head full tilted back, no eyes on the road, etc.

I want something that:
1. Can capture license plates
2. Is good in low light (commuting at sundown or sun up)
3. Front + rear sync
4. GPS would be nice but not necessary
5. Can capture at least 30 min at a time
6. Minimum setup / easy to start/stop while driving (ie get on the freeway, get off the freeway)
 
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Interested as well. Have been saying for a while now that the fiancee and I need to get them for our vehicles. Tons of cheap-o Chinese crap on Amazon with seemingly good reviews, but part of me thinks "you get what you pay for." I feel this might be something worth spending a little bit extra on to know it will function, but would be more than OK saving the money if the less expensive units work just as well.
 
Interested also
I was recently thinking of using a gopro but I'm sure that's not the best choice
 
I used a gopro, just set it on the dash, later rubber band around the passenger visor down. Worked fine and could juice it from the lighter socket.
 
using my go pro, been filming all day actually on loop mode

probably cheaper options that have a few better features for a dash cam but i doubt there are a ton with better image quality

i wouldn't buy a gopro JUST for a dash cam, if that's its only purpose it's probably money wasted. If you do want a gopro though for other stuff it doubles as a dash cam pretty easily
 
Also interested, but I would like one that runs 24/7 when I run a constant 12 vdc/common from the fuse box under the steering wheel. This is to observe shaningans when the car is vacant.
 
I've used three different ones. Long story short is you need to spend at least $100 for something decent.

G-sensor Hdmi Gs8000l $15 ($45 when I bought it)
Internal glue melted from California heat, would not recommend. Lasted about a year. It was a "better than nothing" option.

Black Box G1W-C Capacitor Model Dash Cam $50
It's perfectly mediocre. At night it's pretty bad. Quality isn't good enough to capture a license plate. Audio is fine. And the capacitor in it went out in a couple months, meaning the date and time reset every time my car was turned off.

SpyTec A119 Version 2 $90-100
This is what I still use, easily the best one. Shows GPS, speed, has collision warnings if you want, a g-sensor, good capacitor, good quality that lets you see license plates at higher resolution, and it's low profile. You can also remove speed and GPS and date if you want; it's all customizable. I'd buy it again.
This is a video I took with it. YouTube compresses the quality, and it wasn't recording at the highest resolution.

With any of the above, you can wire it into a fuse box and keep it always on. I've always plugged it in to a cigarette adapter.
 
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Also interested.

I've gone through a few cheap Chinese crap cameras, but this one seems legit after a year of use:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C89GCHU/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The issue I had with previous iterations is that the card would fill up, and they'd stop recording, but not tell you.

This records loops (albeit only 5 mins long) and over-writes oldest files first, except if tagged as to keep (which is a single button press on the camera).

Quality seems good in all light levels.

I want to get another for rear-facing.

What I'd really like is a rear facing cam that I can take the live output from, to display on a small LCD panel, so I can ditch the central mirror and use it for backing up. The view out of the back window is shitty for backing up.

There are some cameras out there that have G-shock sensors and a battery or capacitor onboard, that will record if the car is shaken.

The camera above has a G-shock sensor to automatically keep the preceding 5 mins, plus some time after - handy if you're knocked unconscious in a wreck.
 
ctwo said:
I used a gopro, just set it on the dash, later rubber band around the passenger visor down. Worked fine and could juice it from the lighter socket.
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I'm interested as well. I considered gopro because my Tacoma has a factory built in gopro mount in the upper windshield. But it would be nice to have rear facing as well.
 
SFSV650 said:
Anker Roav. $40 on Amazon. Very happy with it.
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+1
Very user friendly interface and I'm happy with the quality of the video. I have the type that mounts on the windshield and mounted it near the rear view mirror so it doesn't obstruct my view. Doesn't have all the features the OP is looking for though (GPS and Rear Facing). Also, it uses a battery and not a capacitor, but I haven't had problems with keeping the car parked in the heat.
 
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Joebar4000 said:
levels.

I want to get another for rear-facing.

What I'd really like is a rear facing cam that I can take the live output from, to display on a small LCD panel, so I can ditch the central mirror and use it for backing up. The view out of the back window is shitty for backing up.

There are some cameras out there that have G-shock sensors and a battery or capacitor onboard, that will record if the car is shaken.

The camera above has a G-shock sensor to automatically keep the preceding 5 mins, plus some time after - handy if you're knocked unconscious in a wreck.
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It looks like the Anker Roav dash-cam on Amazon is your ticket for backing up, since it has a phone app and WiFi. (BTW I'm sure there are other cameras with WiFi too)

It is now 72 on Amazon but it seems it's an upgraded version.
Not an endorsement, haven't used it, but it's mentioned above in the thread
 
This is the one I use. Rexing V1LG

Bought the optional hardwire kit running to the fusebox under the dash. Camera runs 24/7, and with a 64GB card I have about 2.5 days worth of footage in store. Has a rear camera but I had to pull mine because it was useless (couldn't see through three layers of heavy tint with my camper shell).

https://www.amazon.com/Channel-Dash...F8&qid=1534279365&sr=8-3&keywords=rexing+v1lg

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Footage:
[youtube]anKV3mtlUjI[/youtube]

The most memorable fuckery I've caught on cam to date.
[youtube]Qr4znPWl8JA[/youtube]
 
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my solution is to drive a shitbox that I don't care about

free Camaro FTW! :banana
 
ScorpioVI said:
This is the one I use. Rexing V1LG

Bought the optional hardwire kit running to the fusebox under the dash. Camera runs 24/7, and with a 64GB card I have about 2.5 days worth of footage in store. Has a rear camera but I had to pull mine because it was useless (couldn't see through three layers of heavy tint with my camper shell).
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The dynamic range of that camera in those clips doesn’t look very good.
Maybes it’s the software, maybe not.
 
Blankpage said:
The dynamic range of that camera in those clips doesn’t look very good.
Maybes it’s the software, maybe not.
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Yea, buy the time it goes through MovieMaker and then YouTube it's seriously degraded. The raw files are much better looking.
 
NorCalAthlete said:
But are they good enough for license plates?
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Just fine during the day. Hit and miss during low light. All dash cams are going to have that issue though, it's less about the dash cam and more about the reflective nature of the license plates. You either get enough light on the plates where it reflects the light and you can't see shit, or not enough light and you can't see shit. :rofl
 
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