Originally Posted by
smasha
@colleen - does the "official" contour software have presets for dusk and night? if you, or anyone else, can post the settings (contrast, sharp, EV, etc) so i can duplicate it by hand... thanks...
the other way to switch the contour between day/night settings is to carry two micro-SD cards: one with daytime settings, one with nighttime settings. good luck labeling them, changing them, and not losing them
. a neutral density filter may be the way to go, but so far i've been unable to get anything decent from that camera at night.
Here are two snapshot showing the default setting for Dusk and Outdoor:
Dusk:
Outdoor:
I think the contour uses a CMOS sensor and it take quite a bit of Lumens to make good night exposure since from what I heard that CMOS censor does not response to well with LED lights. The other day I was playing with my lights and Contour HD where I flooded the area with a lot of light at night to see how much area the Contour can response and it does OK. As it shows, it takes at least 1500 OTF of lighting from LED light source to get OK exposure in the Dusk mode. I normally ride with at least 2000 OTTF lumens so most of my video clip are OK. Check it out: