I’ll just leave these here, shall I?
(Close-ups from Varia 4K+EIS videos)
TL:WR? Daytime is fine. Nighttime it’s a £450 light with a £10 camera from 2015
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On a related note, the image/video capture from my car’s dashcam also have similarly poor quality. It’s probably correlated to the smaller sensor sizes on these cameras, couple with the higher noise, from the amplifiers boosting the brightness to acceptable levels. I highly doubt that it’s unique to just Garmin’s options. Cycliq is the same as well.
Until the software is able to catch up with the compensation and noise filtering needed, this is what we’ll probably have to live with for now.
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Generally, it’s just hard to have cameras that work at night. The sensor needs to work for more time to get enough light to make a picture. More time = more blur. Technical ways of dealing with this are a larger lens, which reduces depth of field (things out of focus), more sensitive sensors (which introduces more noise), or larger sensors, which are expensive and maybe not ideal for cycling.
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