Originally Posted by
dragoonO1
I own the Sony AS100V mounted on my helmet, and frequently ride alongside a 45 mph(posted, but they travel 50 - 55) road. I use the 1080P 60fps setting along with the 50 Mb bitrate, and it is able to capture plates in daylight, if the lighting is favorable, at my average of 12 mph. But the plate has to be directly in a line with the lens, and the range at which the plate can be made out is limited to 2 car lengths or so. It's possible, but not what I would classify as reliable.
It has excellent low light image quality compared to other action cams I had seen at the time of purchase, but you won't be capturing plates after the sun sets with this model. I don't know of any waterproof high resolution action cam within my budget that is able to record a legible image of a plate at night.
Judging from your previous posts, you don't want this model anyhow. It gobbles up power; the battery lasts ~50 min @ 1080p60 50 Mb with Wi-Fi & GPS enabled, and ~70 minutes with Wi-Fi off at the same settings. It also lacks loop recording capability, so a 64 GB card needs a wipe every 2h37m.
OK, I have never had a camera that records at that high of a bitrate. It's bitrate that you want really. The image sensor can certainly discern plates, but by the time the data gets crunched down to fit the max bitrate set, the details of rapidly moving things get lost.
Yeah, 50 minutes battery wouldn't even make it from work to home for me on my longer routes (or during bad weather). Now that we have better choices, I won't buy anything without at least a 3 hour battery life. I can live without loop recording but I'd rather not.