turbotrana Member 2,586 Member For: 21y 9m 19d Gender: Male Posted 19/09/13 08:55 AM Share Posted 19/09/13 08:55 AM I ordered on the 13/9, nothing yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NVT Formerly EGOBFXR6 Donating Members 1,111 Member For: 16y 11m 13d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 21/09/13 10:57 AM Share Posted 21/09/13 10:57 AM (edited) I've been wanting to get a dash cam for a long time, so I'm glad this thread popped up.I spent about a week going through brands, types, features, prices, fakes etc before deciding on one. The unfortunate thing is that they are (mostly) all made by, as one blogger stated, "obscure electric companies mostly from Korea, China and Taiwan..." I really do like the BlackVue, but every cam seems to fall short where another excels, whether it be size, battery life, night vision etc. There's no one perfect all-rounder... Either way, I wasn't really inclined to pay $300+ for a no-name cam that was new to the market.Here's a good comparison of the most common cams and it seems to be quite good. As you can see, they all have their faults...http://dashcamtalk.com/dash-cam-comparison/To see how I'd like the whole 'dash-cam' thing, I bought a cheap DVR-027 that was suggested by a few sites as being the best 'budget' one, I have to say that I wasn't super impressed... I wasn't expecting an amazing cam but I do have to say it is pretty bad. Day vision is good but everything else is a pain... I've since sent it back for a refund - And it wasn't a copy as I bought it from an online store here in Aus. If anyone wants to know anything about it, feel free to PM me. I'm not here to bag out products and suppliers - Just to give an honest and subjective opinion.Well then, I'm back at square one again... More research led me to the NavMan MyVue series and I'm thinking about going the mid-range 358 as it does what I need plus is made by a reputable supplier at a fair price (Sub $200) so I think this will be the next cam I buy. Competitive features, good youtube footage, reputable company - I think it's a winner.If anyone cares, I'll review it when I get it to help out anyone else who's considering one.I'll be following this thread Cheers,Dan Edited 21/09/13 10:59 AM by NVT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenDoCo I'm getten too old for this s**t Bronze Donating Members 4,509 Member For: 11y 9m 12d Gender: Male Location: A big bridge over a river in South Australia Posted 21/09/13 11:08 AM Author Share Posted 21/09/13 11:08 AM ^^^^http://www.navman.com.au/digital-drive-recorder/MiVue-Series/MiVue358/overview/Yeah it would be great if you could do a write up once it's installed to give another good option for pplCheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixy Angel Expert Donating Members 9,132 Member For: 19y 10m 22d Gender: Male Location: North Jamberoo, NSW Posted 21/09/13 11:14 AM Share Posted 21/09/13 11:14 AM Been thinking whats the rear view image like of a night time? With the lights shinning into the camera you may not be able to read number plate/s or anything else. If your to get the twin camera system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenDoCo I'm getten too old for this s**t Bronze Donating Members 4,509 Member For: 11y 9m 12d Gender: Male Location: A big bridge over a river in South Australia Posted 21/09/13 11:29 AM Author Share Posted 21/09/13 11:29 AM This is the only night video using the rear camera I could find but I did only search for BlackVueThe rear camera is 720 max and yes Angel, not the best but still may help, but would suggest that (if you can) jump out and take a photo with your phone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixy Angel Expert Donating Members 9,132 Member For: 19y 10m 22d Gender: Male Location: North Jamberoo, NSW Posted 21/09/13 08:44 PM Share Posted 21/09/13 08:44 PM Cheers Ben nice find. I had a feeling it would look like that as you said still maybe useful.If I'm to get out of the car it would not be for taking photos.........if you know I what I mean. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenDoCo I'm getten too old for this s**t Bronze Donating Members 4,509 Member For: 11y 9m 12d Gender: Male Location: A big bridge over a river in South Australia Posted 23/09/13 07:57 AM Author Share Posted 23/09/13 07:57 AM Got the camera and power supply delivered today and like all things that I tackle these days, it may take me a while to install it coz chicken sh!t & don't trust myself to do stuff like this these days so I sit and think about it for a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenDoCo I'm getten too old for this s**t Bronze Donating Members 4,509 Member For: 11y 9m 12d Gender: Male Location: A big bridge over a river in South Australia Posted 25/09/13 04:48 AM Author Share Posted 25/09/13 04:48 AM (edited) So I installed the BlackVue yesterday arvo - got the local auto sparky to wire up the constant power supply for me just to make sure it was done properly and he was a bit scetchy about where he tapped into the power (1 goes to constant power and 1 to acc). Made a quick mention of the phone power leads behind the consol but I'm not really sure.I turned the camera on and it installed everything to the MicroSD card and started recording and to make sure it was pointing in the right direction, I fired up the Wi-Fi on the phone, connected to the cam and checked the 'Live View' and adjusted the cam for the best view.When I got home, I put the SD card in the laptop to check the recording and it was very good so I went onto the blackvue website and there is an update for the camera.The firmware update has "somewhat" fixed that pixelating problem that has been mentioned above, as the camera will now record 1080 @ 10 Mb bit rate....quite a bit better in fact.So driving around during the arvo and evening to test it out, I am very pleased with the quality and I'm sure will pay for itself in the event of a no-fault accident but 1 thing that I'm not real keen on is the viewing angle of the lens in it...at first I thought that the wider the better but it's obvious that to make the viewing angle wider, they have curved the lens therefore "things that appear in the camera lens are closer than they appear" but as Shrekus said above, it's a good thing to have just to cover my @ss Edited 25/09/13 04:50 AM by BenDoCo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ms700 Moderating Team 10,170 Member For: 21y 11m 18d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 25/09/13 05:16 AM Share Posted 25/09/13 05:16 AM If I'm to get out of the car it would not be for taking photos.........if you know I what I mean.Line up at mackers drive thru too long, so you get out to go line up inside instead?Thought so 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenDoCo I'm getten too old for this s**t Bronze Donating Members 4,509 Member For: 11y 9m 12d Gender: Male Location: A big bridge over a river in South Australia Posted 25/09/13 05:26 AM Author Share Posted 25/09/13 05:26 AM ^^^ I've done that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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