Fresh from the pack was experimenting with the menu will soon end: "Low Battery". Now, the camera has fortunately widespread Mini USB, but once she was connected to my PC, the menu did not turn back. I knew from my Navi already, it has been mounted as a mass storage, not as outright power, so all functions switched off.
The lithium battery is the back-up battery for the settings - after prolonged removal must be programmed the date again.
Maybe the 5-volt power supply input? Oje, immediately after plugging in the car charger cable to my Suzuki (mass = Plus) burned the fuse (230 V, 1 Amp nimble, 30mm long, if someone needs the data) of the charging cable through. Of this there was nothing in the description. After resoldering the connectors on the board in the charging connector / voltage converter and inserting a new fuse, I was rewarded with the operation Ready LED on the charger plug.
Until one in the Far East figured that with a penny article (today cent articles), namely can make a bridge rectifier or four diodes, regardless of the polarity of the respective car outlet to my now gained routine in reconstruction of the connector is well in demand , It is no use to swap the polarity at the output cable; the voltage converter from vehicle voltage at five volts must already find the correct input polarity. I do not like it. A layman would have up to this point been a few hours Workshop Search, etc. plus travel times have to spend at least the purchase price of all dashcam.
To familiarize yourself with the camera, is unusually difficult. Since the manual just the area of four sheet of toilet paper has (tuned held) and I have not benefited from, as of such, a learning and Ausprobierphase is essential that I save at least the readers of this review by a continuously upgedatete description partially want. Points such as "Does the menu item" Image rotate an "automatic adjustment of the position or is so only provided the image upside down, or" what power can I at the recommended use as a surveillance camera home use "of course not mentioned.
Without charged battery, the camera may not run, even if it hangs on a USB cable. However, they shall expire on the tiny circular plug the car charger plug. Anyone who wants to use the camera for surveillance purposes at home, you need a small transformer (about 6 watts, about 6 euros) from 230 volts to car socket.
The images are washed out and shines like ten years ago at the cheapest Digikams. A screenshot of the worst, resulting in today's rainy moment I upload. If you want to use the video for visual purposes, should take with this camera, like any good photographer with a Einfachstkamera that the light is coming from behind, the sun is shining and no disturbing lighting differences occur in the scenery. Conclusion: it is not at all depends on the resolution, HD or not, but the lens quality and that is bad.
Meanwhile, I have the color intensity and contrast on my observation program in the PC (SMPlayer) set me up. That sometimes seems unnatural, but also at traffic lights, the colors can be distinguished. Furthermore, I have delighted noted that the poor quality has given me a little sparing; while about one-sixth of the area on the left side is totally out of focus, the same area is on the right edge relatively sharp and when overtaking, at junctions or when it comes to signs or pedestrians at the roadside, the right side is of course interesting.
Sharpness default, the Practica CDV is just 1.0 useful just for the recording of car trips. Ortsschilder the edge of the field, mark the edge of parked cars or as road and traffic signs are also perfectly legible. License plate are (only) be seen when the vehicle distance in front of the camera is in less than about two car lengths, not with the safety distances required in slow traffic. That's not very bad, because the recording is characterized loudly and clearly spoken words inside the car a safe place, so you can record it if the indicator for example a right of way violation.
The motion detection works. For interiors do the six LEDs at close range, estimated up to 1 meter in service, not more. The battery has persevered for one night, so families can pinch already let their guard refrigerator automatically once.
View the latest Addendum: In the second week since commissioning the camera now works the way I want it. At settings I have especially the fake Resolution 1920 x 1080 pixels changed to 1440x720 pixels, which anyway only can the sensor; the interpolated resolution greater coarsened only the pixels and doubles the memory requirement.
Furthermore, the camera is of course on Loop, ie stores them in small bites from two to ten minutes and still the oldest scene is overwritten when the memory card is full once. Thus, the camera does not continue even when parked ignition and thus electroless car outlet until the battery is empty, I have "off after 2 minutes" set.
On memory cards I use as a precaution either a class "6" or contemporary with class "10", and for dubbing on the PC I let the camera in the car and read the files using a card reader, which is much faster.
The suction cup holds the windshield bombproof. With the solid mechanics, the two joints and, in my opinion not entirely trustworthy camera screw but the construction is building very striking large, and it did not succeed, the camera with her actually very flat design housing on the rear view mirror or behind the environmental zone sticker to hide. Better to tinkering from a neodymium magnet (with me 28 kg load capacity, 30mm diameter, nearly 4 euros) and a piece of flat aluminum a holder at the very edge of the pane. Mounting Hole band of Norma's doing well when it turns into a closed mold (triangle, see customer photo), because there are no vibrations.
Because of the lousy quality lens, especially the glare against the sky, the uneven distribution of field and the insufficient marks for example oncoming cars sharpness I have lowered the rating to only two stars. This is coupled with an honest buy recommendation. Many cheaper models are unsustainable bad according to Internet forums, better cameras come expensive. It has apparently not much purpose to look in this price and quality for a slightly better model. In this context, I can at the Amazon Showing rates only to always click with 5 star ratings on "My other reviews" of the author. Very often you will find Amazon members who send outspoken jubilation reviews a wide range of gadgets from the same manufacturer or wholesale rate and only one division, for example, only mini video cameras and no books. It seems to me still on it, the camera - inconspicuous from the outside - always mounted to keep and record every meter of driven distance well visible, turn without doing anything, delete the need to provide them with memory cards or batteries and it does.
