Do you remove your Dashcam in sunny weather

[otherclive]

Those who have seen the Jackal series will recall his use of a gyroscopic stabilised rifle. I wonder if similar tech can be used in cameras🤔. Maybe it is?

My two LUMIX cameras have an anti shake mode. Good job as having an Essential Tremor in my right arm any shots would be fuzzy to say the least. Notwithstanding, I have to really try and support the camera too.

 

[Buckman]

Why bother about removing the dashcam in hot weather as it will probably fall off itself which is why they give you spare sticky pads. We had to specifically request the suction cup for our 622.

 

[otherclive]

Why bother about removing the dashcam in hot weather as it will probably fall off itself which is why they give you spare sticky pads. We had to specifically request the suction cup for our 622.

My question was specifically related to the dash cam in hot weather when it may be covered by a sunscreen which would significantly increase the temperature that the dash cam is subjected to.

Mine fell off twice when the adhesive pads failed. The second pad that failed I had left in place for 24 hours to allow the bond to cure before fitting the camera to the mount. So I then opted for a suction mount which has been in place for a year now.

 

[Sam Vimes]

My smartphone has good electronic image stabilisation for videos and it works very well. However, that's only part of the issue as there are other parameters that will affect image quality.

Videos are more about capturing fluid motion and as such there's probably a better chance of reading detail i.e number plate, when running the playback than there is in capturing a single frame.

Frame rate is important for fluid motion but if you want a single frame to capture detail then shutter speed is important. The typical rule of thumb for video capture is that the shutter speed is linked to the frame rate as follows - 30fps 1/30th sec; 60fps 1/120th sec - and so on.

At these shutter speeds individual frames may well appear blurred. If you increase the shutter speed then you need more light. Apertures on dashcams and smartphones are fixed so the only other option is to increase the sensitivity - ISO speed. Which may well introduce more noise.

Then of course there's the compression of the resulting image data to produce a manageable file size - important in dash cams which may need to run for a long while. This is not a lossless process and detail often gets lost or aritfacts become apparent.

Quality of the lens is yet another factor. There's no point in packing more pixels onto the sensor if the piece of glass or plastic in front doesn't have much resolving power.

Taking into account all of the above I think it would be fair to say that the cheaper the dashcam, the less likely it is you'll get a good quality image.

 

[Buckman]

My question was specifically related to the dash cam in hot weather when it may be covered by a sunscreen which would significantly increase the temperature that the dash cam is subjected to.

Mine fell off twice when the adhesive pads failed. The second pad that failed I had left in place for 24 hours to allow the bond to cure before fitting the camera to the mount. So I then opted for a suction mount which has been in place for a year now.

Plus the suction cup is not so fiddly to fix the dashcam back especially when you have no available spare pads.

 

[RogerL]

My question was specifically related to the dash cam in hot weather when it may be covered by a sunscreen which would significantly increase the temperature that the dash cam is subjected to.

Mine fell off twice when the adhesive pads failed. The second pad that failed I had left in place for 24 hours to allow the bond to cure before fitting the camera to the mount. So I then opted for a suction mount which has been in place for a year now.

My dashcam is secured using the supplied suction pad but falls off from time to time - usually my fault for forgetting to deploy the blind for the panoramic sunroof in sunny conditions.