best night time dash cam performance

IMX291 is the best for night time.

Not a great fan of Viofo myself. Nice cameras but I've found endurance to be poor.

There are a few cams that use IMX291. Best to look around at reviews.
 
looney2ns said:
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So what's the verdict with these mentioned cams?
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I haven't played with my A119S V2 much after setting it up. I planned on installing a different model on my wife's car and comparing but she did not want me to install one on her car. So there was the end of that. Lol.

I did buy my brother a IPC-HDW5231R-ZE for Christmas from Andy. Other than that all my money is also going to one of my new hobbies.

Here are some pics below, hopefully I am pardoned as well @looney2ns.

No fish yet, waiting for them to cycle first.
 

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ljw2k said:
Good choice and I think you will be happy with this,you will also have very good support. If you have DAB radio the rear Cam will probably wipe that out so be careful on cable routing.
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That wasone of the deciding factors, the excellent support I see over on dashcamtalk.com from them. ;)
 
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I saw DDPAI has this Mix3 which claims to have "exceptional night vision" (not actual night vision, just bright image) and uses Sony IMX307 Starvis, WDS, H.265.

I have their older M6+ which has held up great for a few years now fine and has decent night vision. I can get plate readings of cars in front of me, maybe up to 10-15 ft or so. I liked that it was a magnetic mount\connection so I can pop it in my pocket easily when I leave the car and not have it dangling there like eye candy for a thief.
 
I followed the web address Looney mentioned above and found a review on that dashcam forum with samples. Looking at the daytime samples, they're no better than any other 1080P dashcam in my opinion. Not surprising since the limiting factor is the resolution plus bit rate. 11mbs at H265 is only around 24mbs at H264 from memory. Hardly groundbreaking bit rates. Also, for daytime, several manufacturers have either 1440P or 4K resolution cameras available. There are also cameras with higher bit rates using H264. As for night, the videos look quite good from the mix, if a little noisy in some places. However, the night performance alone would not persuade me to take this over a superior daytime camera as 90%+ of my driving is done in the day.

The built in memory on the Mix would be a worry as any wear or other issue in the memory and it's a new camera not solely a new SD card.

Think it probably has it's uses for those who drive mainly at night eg overnight couriers / delivery drivers etc, but the real breakthrough is going to come from a low light 4K camera with STARVIS or similar sensitivity as then you'd get both the daytime resolution and low light performance. Just my 2 cents.
 
It’s strange how some of the dashcam manufacturers are moving to making a bigger cam whereas me personally I’d rather have the smallest on the windscreen to make it less obvious that you have a cam. Ideally I’d like a cam that simply blends in, the mix3 for example to me would be more visible than their previous 6 model ?
 
The Mobius Maxi is the smallest you're going to get.

One reason for going to larger cams in the long run is bigger sensors tend to deliver better image quality.
 
Yes mate I do as I sold my BMW and now the camera is in my wife's Golf GT
 
Arjun said:
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Do look into Thinkware too. I have Q800 Pro

Front Sony Exmor R CMOS 5.14M IMX 335 (2560 x 1440p)
Rear Sony Exmor R CMOS 2.13M IMX291 (1920 x 1080p)

It has the same IMX 335 front sensor.

Thinkware costs more but imho it looks more sleek and the parking modes are simply the best.

Thinkware also has the new 4K one which may have larger sensor. I'd look into that too. If I recall it can read plates even better and performs just as well at night. Personally I find my q800 more than adequate for dashcam use. It also warns about speed traps / red light cams etc which is handy.
 
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The price prevents me from purchasing that model; I'd rather put that into a Uniden R1 radar detector, but they're illegal in Canada from what is seems. My trip up to Montreal and Quebec City was challenging without the radar detector :rofl:

Warptrooper said:
Do look into Thinkware too. I have Q800 Pro

Front Sony Exmor R CMOS 5.14M IMX 335 (2560 x 1440p)
Rear Sony Exmor R CMOS 2.13M IMX291 (1920 x 1080p)

It has the same IMX 335 front sensor.

Thinkware costs more but imho it looks more sleek and the parking modes are simply the best.

Thinkware also has the new 4K one which may have larger sensor. I'd look into that too. If I recall it can read plates even better and performs just as well at night. Personally I find my q800 more than adequate for dashcam use. It also warns about speed traps / red light cams etc which is handy.
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