Originally Posted by babyjocko

I have the dual Thinkware F770. The rear camera mounted at the top of the rear window is not noticed at all. I mounted the front camera in the right side (inside perspective) nook behind the mirror and just below the black tint along the top of the window. You do not want to mount it in the middle directly under the mirror otherwise it will obstruct your view. Behind the mirror makes it invisible from the driver's perspective and you still have access to the components.

Yes, the rear camera has good purpose, for example rear end collision; theft approached from the rear, etc,

I have this dashcam in both of my cars. It is excellent. The only issue is video gaps on very twisty roads. Apparently, due to significant rapid image variations, the data is too high. I don't know if it is the fault of the codec or the SD card delivered with the dashcam. I just replaced the SD card with a very fast SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I/U3, but I haven't driven on the twisty since the replacement. I will this weekend and will update the result.

BTW, when I say very twisty, I mean extremely twisty like Dragon's Tail. 99.9% of roads in this country don't come close to this kind of twisty. We who are near the Smokey Mountains are fortunate to have such roads. This is the only reason why I bought a 911.

Originally Posted by stealthpilot

Hey we're doing a run to Blood Mountain this weekend. Do you want to join? Are you on our Atlanta 911 Facebook Group?

Originally Posted by Daohaus

I have front and rear because you can never be too safe

Originally Posted by babyjocko

By the way, I had the Thinkware F770 installed in my Tesla by CarTunes. CarTunes prices are just way too high. So, I had Benchmark Soundworks in Alpharetta install the same in my 911. They did it for $125.

Originally Posted by babyjocko

By the way, I had the Thinkware F770 installed in my Tesla by CarTunes. CarTunes prices are just way too high. So, I had Benchmark Soundworks in Alpharetta install the same in my 911. They did it for $125.

Originally Posted by stealthpilot

Did you get the info for the meetup tomorrow?

I got the F770 installed now but I can't get the viewer to work on my iMac. Do you use a mac?

Originally Posted by babyjocko

Yes, will meet tomorrow in Cumming.

Sorry, I don't do Mac. Actually, the viewer is a decent app.

Did you insert a high speed SD card or are you using the one provided by Thinkware. When we hit the rapid curves, it will test the high speed SD card I recently installed. It had been gapping video bigtime around those curves -- and only around those curves (where the rocks are). I hope the gapping is not due the the codec. We shall see.

Originally Posted by stealthpilot

I took out the Thinkware one and put in a Samsung Evo Pro Select 64gb which is supposed to be a high speed card (95mbps) with extreme durability.

I didn't get a card over 100mbps because the F770 doesn't support those. Hope this one works out tomorrow. I may bring the thinkware one as a backup.

Originally Posted by babyjocko

And, you are correct, the video gap is substituted by incident recording. I wish I had known that a long time ago. I've adjusted the sensitivity settings to minimum.

The incident recordings have the video, but what it does is overlaps with pre-roll. That's good when it is an actual incident -- not so good when trying to fill in the missing gaps from continuous recording.

BTW, the drive was great today. I will post video soon.

Originally Posted by LCW

What is the general consensus of where to install a rear facing camera in convertible, assuming you drive with the top down most of the time? which model?


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