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Not sure if they fixed this issue with a new firmware, but I bought mine a few weeks ago and it shipped with this firmware version (V2.820.0000000.0.R, Build Date: 2020-11-14). Im able to set the focus mode on manual so it doesnt de-focus when switching to day/night. Also I have day/night on...

Yeah its a great camera dude. I am blown away with the performance difference compared to all my 8mp/4mp dome and turret cams I've used. Its worth the price and it ships quickly from Andy. Check out this dude doing a u-turn and me still getting a readable plate on an insanely stupid angle. Im sold.

Lol I always think of this scene when talking about digital zoom. Crazy that even at 2mp, the 5241 does very very well when digitally zooming on on details.

This is certainly a question I had and even posted very recently. For reference Im about a 35-40 degree angle from the road, about 60-70ft distance and 10 ft above the road. Im attempting to hang a LPR on the outside of my garage facing an intersection/ outlet (to give you an idea of my setup.)...

Lmao yeah I know man im stubborn!!! dont hate me :rofl:

I know this is almost a year late, but did you ever get this figured out? I have MOV/MP4 repair software. Its a long shot but sometimes they work. It does sound like the camera wasnt recording but thought it was. If there was no visible files but you recovered files with data recovery software...

Protip: aim it down more. I know it sounds stupid to get more of your dashboard in frame but the day shots are dark cause you have it compensating for the bright sky.

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3M VHB gray double-sided tape. Will not come off unless you want it to and even then it takes some effort. Make sure to clean the area you are applying it to with some rubbing alcohol first. Dont use suction cups. They always fall under heat or accidents.

Not sure about what exactly you are asking but I have my dashcams hardwired and they record continuously. I have a 256gb memory card and it takes around 23 hours +- to fill that card before it starts recording over itself. Just keep in mind that if thieves see a dashcam, all they have to do is...

Also check out a youtuber called "Techmoan". He used to review a ton of dashcams and includes sample footage.

Blackvue makes some nice dashcams. I personally really like the Aukey DR01. Its got pretty nice night and day shots and plates should be readable most times. Its about $60 on amazon. They make a GPS module that plugs into the camera to give you speed and coordinates. As far as recording while...

I have experience on this. DO NOT buy dashcams with batteries. They are useless and I have had one camera's battery puff up and nearly catch fire in the summer heat while in my car. Buy one with a capacitor. You only need it to be able to save the recorded file once power is cut. If you want to...

@bigredfish Yeah im really curious how a 2mp 1/1.8 would do. Theoretically I should have very good low light performance with having a larger sensor and lower MP right? Also lower aperture numbers mean better low light images correct? @samplenhold yeah thats what I was thinking. The lens should...

Lol! I might be the first one to try the 5242 for LPR purposes. Hmm.. hope Andy can get me one fairly quickly since I dont see it on his aliexpress or amazon pages. Im very curious to see if its just what I need. And yeah unfortunately the eve and IR issues might still be a bust. But I do have...

I appreciate everyone's help so far! You all have given me a lot of useful info here and very quickly. What I've gathered from this is that since im trying to get plates about 60-70ft out at less than ideal angles, my 12mm lenses are not giving me enough optical zoom and im having to digitally...

Those are real nice. You have an excellent angle to grab those plates!

I dont use any backlighting. Except with the LPRs i was using HLC

I normally don't keep them on default. My LPR setup was far from default and I spent many hours trying to dial it in. My main concern was LPR duties but I started mentioning the general quality of the 5442 out of the box. It appears it comes oversharpened and has lots of artifacting which was my...

Yeah It is a little soft but much better than before. And I dont have artifacting/ oversharpening like I was getting. The camera is set up under an eve and it is angled so that when zoomed in, its centered for LPR on vehicles. All I did in those overview shots was zoom it out but kept the camera...

@bigredfish thats what it was! I put sharpness down to 28 and its a huge improvement. This was oversharp out of the box. The montavues are softer but in a good way. @wittaj @sebastiantombs you are right! if I hit customized, I can change it to 20480 bitrate and woooah. The image is real nice...

i changed it to h265 but im still limited to 8192kb/s bitrate. Appears to be the same picture quality

So this is kind of a separate issue from my LPR stuff. I was just playing around to get an idea of general video quality. I have the camera zoomed out, focused, with default settings. Im not pulling LPR duty with this. Encoding settings are below, everything else is default.

Sorry i should clarify, I meant just playing around with day shots in default as an overview camera netted subpar picture. I was doing LPR duties with the settings in my original post ( as you mentioned shutter speed and gain settings) but I have since zoomed it back out and ran default to see...

Most people are oblivious, but those people arent the ones im worried about. Its the ones that know what to look for and notice camera placement, angles, and blindspots. Domes conceal angle easily. I do however like the idea of building something to place them inconspicuously but my house isnt...

Ok good to know. I appreciate you chiming in! I dont think the 5442 is gonna work for me. In every case the z12 has better everything, I just hate the form factor, but i know theres sacrifices with domes. :( By the way those shots at 115ft look great! Its weird cause i always notice cameras on...

@crw030 I was definitely having that VBR issue when I was playing with VBR. But even in CBR it just looks much more over-sharpened and has a ton of noise. Comparing it to my Montavue overviews, theres a huge difference in scene quality. Also, @bigredfish, your 5442 looks a bit better than...

Wow! A lot of great info in those posts and very detailed. Thank you for posting your experience with everything and sharing it. By the way, I really like the little box you made for your LPRs. In fact, your whole setup is very clean! I thought about doing something similar to put the LPRs very...

Gotcha, yeah I had to use 1/500 shutter for night to get any sort of readable reflections back into the camera. I dont mind adding an external IR if needed too. I think it would actually be decent if I had more optical zoom as many others here have told me. I definitely appreciate you linking...

Lmao, Yeah this is the sad story of my life. I do some research, buy what I think to be correct and adequate, then do more research and realize how wrong I was. haha BUT to be fair I thought a 4mp starlight would have done it! My issue is that Im stubborn and impatient. As such, I want a dome...