Originally Posted by
colleen c
I use the highest setting which record 1920 x 1080 and I set it to Medium bit rate. I also set my Contour HD to Low light Dusk exposure. I find that setting pretty useful for low light and the higher quality recording still can capture cars that buzz by me in a fast speed although I still have to use the Event/Pan crop in my editing software to zoom in on the plate.
what is that "
Low light Dusk exposure"? i use a text editor on linux/BSD to adjust the settings, so i don't have anything that fancy... just contrast, sharp, EV, etc. it seems like i either have to settle for useless results at night, or nearly useless results at night and washed-out, overexposed results during the day.
for catching plates, i've found that reducing the resolution down to 1280x720 is worth it, to get the frame-rate up to 60fps. if amazon ever gets my order out, i'll soon have a 2nd contour-1080 to do side-by-side testing... two contour-1080s, a HERO and a HERO-960... a RLJ hot-spot should be a good place to test them all at various settings
