G1WH Test Videos.. 4 minutes of day shots with a few different lighting conditions and 22 minutes of night shots with multiple situations and lighting conditions as well as speed...

did more of night shots mainly coz there isnt any... day shots u can find on youtube already...

night shots are pretty decent although at times i wish it was better...but definitely good enough i suppose... bulb colour of street lamps makes a diff in quality of the recording... can see it in the video.... i find white bulbs better for video quality as compared to yellow bulbs


as always... set the video at Full HD (1080p) to see it in all its glory.


i think i may need to "dampen" the microphone.. i find that it cant really take the noise from my exhaust and makes a rattling sound in the video...heck of alot worse at high revs. but not sure if its the mic... or its the plastic case itself that cant handle the noise... hahahahhaha

I've also managed to answer my own question about using the DVR with a mobile phone in car charger. answer is yes, it works. all functions like auto record during startup works... i used USAMS 3.1Amp Quick In-Car Charger...so yes.. i can record my track session and charge my phone while using a GPS Lap Timer like Race Chrono

Fuhhhh... Happy la you

Can see theres youtube's sucky compression working on the video though

And gawdammit, remove the lens protector la weyhhh

yes. very... especially about the in car charger part ahahhaha

protector ah? wait la... sayang... heheheheh... will remove it on the 30th... planning on a track outing that day... will remove it at the track

mADmAN
too bad G1WH doesn't come with SOS function...
the picture quality is good in my opinion

Nightstalker1993
i think this WDR tech that shadow GT680W use is more benefit towards china market...
because on their plate colour combination...blue and white

you can see it pretty clearly in their video advertisement
but in your video...malaysia plate number is quite blur
and china vehicle plate number also seems using some reflector material just like most of our road signage
so the WDR can capture more lights in night time

budakdegilz

SOS Function? wats that?

I think the problem is more to Youtube compression. The raw videos out of camera looks much much better than after uploaded to Youtube. It's like youtube hates DVR videos and specially compresses it more to make it look like crap

mADmAN
if you met an accident...
you can just push the SOS button so the video will be save in your memory card automaticly
without the possibility of video looping record on top of the SOS video

Nightstalker1993
so what you saying are the GT680W can captured clearly malaysian vehicle number plate??
you estimation... what the distance between yours and car in front of you in order for the DVR to capture the number plate clearly???
because when i'm seeing their video advertisement i'm quite impress..
but from the video you posted it doesn't impress me much...sorry

eerrr.... isnt that what the g sensor is for? and dont even have to press a button

but ive turned mine off due to my car's stiff adjustable suspension as I dont want it to save each n every one of the videos everytime I hit a bump or rough patch on the road

yup...that's why in my opinion g-sensor is not very effective..
and that's also the reason i like DVR that comes with both..
g-sensor and SOS button
like GT680W

Uhhh I think most cameras have that feature.

And yes the GT680w can capture malaysian plate numbers pretty good. Distance estimation few cars length kot. Just take note that the wider angle your lens is, the maximum distance where plate number still looks eligible drops. Like my GS9000, super wide angle lens but cars more than 2~3 cars away cannot see plate number liao

Search the manual, there should be a button you can presss to lock the file while recording

even if there's no such feature, with an 8gb card you've got 2 hours of footage, so that's 2 hours left until it overwrites, and if it's a 32gb card, you'd need to drive from Penang to JB and back in order for it to overwrite itself. Now, if you continue driving for 8 hours without saving a file, I'd call it user error for not saving the file.

exactly...so not really an issue.. I intend to save the files to pc often... and im on 32gb so no biggie la...

Thinking to grab one over here, they have 12megapixel dashcam etc, lots of option for you to choose. not sure good or not.

http://list.tmall.com//search_product.htm?...0075017&style=g

Edit : Top selling - http://list.tmall.com//search_product.htm?...075017#J_Filter

This post has been edited by xDragonZ: Jan 21 2014, 11:37 PM

mine is ok though, only sound quality, which i just recently realize that it's on 16000 Hz sample rate, 24.00 kbps bitrate, faad audio format (aka shit, lol)

Finally got the time to make a sample video.

This is my Tourmate G100 (someone selling in LYN GS). You can see the video quality is not good, sound quality even worse.



Well, at least it was able to record what's happening, except when it overheats and hangs after long usage. One of the air vents have to be pointed at this unit to prevent it from overheating and hang and all the videos that were recorded halfway are not viewable.

I randomly checked what's in this card and was very disappointed. Most of the clip can't be played and some of the clips went crazy. Formatted the card and it worked fine today (i'm using 16GB Class 10, only 2 hours of recording). Plus, i can't format memory cards with this unit as it'll just destroy it completely and it'll cause computers to freeze when trying to read/format them (2 memory cards were destroyed. RIP)

But was impressed with the gapless recording and very clear date & time stamp. That's it.

P/S: The month of the date will always stuck on October. No idea why.

I'd recommend getting one from more reputable places like FoxOffer. They ship from Singapore

Lolz that model DVR very common and its a generic DVR. Usually these lower quality DVR will perform very poorly in terms of reliability and many of them have their videos corrupted which is why if you're searching for a DVR, better get one which is already tested and well known for reliability. My GS9000 hanged before once, read online that formatting the card may solve it due to corrupted files being in the card. One of the files got corrupted as I removed the memory card from the device while it was still recording halfway. After I formatted the card, it did not hang anymore.

yup...the quality is horrible even when set to 1080p... i could barely read the number plate of the golf and the nissan u were trailing on federal highway...

on the other hand... this video is a good example for spacelion to see why good quality is needed... coz without quality u can barely read the number plate.

The Tourmate one is definitely not 1080p. Looks more like 720p or 480p upscale

Your G1WH video you compare the Youtube uploaded version and the RAW files from the camera, are there much difference? Maybe posting a screenshot from the raw image would be better at judging the image quality like I had done with mine..

GS9000 sample

http://i.imgur.com/JewWDCL.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/nr4JtLE.jpg

I have been using the PAPAGO P3 for some times now, except for overheated issue, no other complaint.
Here are some sample pics I had prepared:

Day:


Night:


Note: I am not a PAPAGO agent or seller.

This post has been edited by boxerawd: Jan 23 2014, 10:33 AM

Yes the Papago is a decent camera. I've known it since the P1 days. Very sharp lens but very narrow field of view. Upside about the narrow field of view is that you can actually see plate numbers from vehicles that are further away compared to the super wide angle models like mine where cars further than 1~2 car length it'll be very hard to identify the plate number.

Agreed, at 178 wide, can't demand for best of both world.