My Fly 12 CE (see photo above) captures plates really well, within maybe a 20 foot distance, in daylight with a straight-on view, coming or going. It's next to useless at night, though it's possible you *might* capture the plate or a partial plate, or at least get a vehicle description. With my camera, I only see a need to read out plate numbers unless it's at night, or another vehicle is blocking it or something like that. Overall I'm very happy with the image quality, and since i started using a 64 gb card, it holds about 8 hours of video.I will add that the image stabilization is great, there is some sort of loose ball inside of the camera that bounces around and somehow keeps the image perfectly steady.

I think the biggest selling point the Fly 12 CE has is battery life. They claim up to 8 hours, but I think with a new battery, it's closer to 6, with a year-old battery that's been charged maybe a hundred times, I now get about 4 hours of battery, which is plenty for most of my rides. I don't review the video unless something noteworthy happened, and then I will take a still shot to preserve it, then record over. I find high speed mountain descents very relaxing to watch, and I have a couple of those saved, plus a couple clips from my old riding loop where I lived last year, those bring back memories. Most clips I just record over though, it would take thousands of dollars of storage to preserve those, and I'd never watch them anyway.