Multiple car household (audi, Volvo, Toyota, etc)

23 992 GTS Cam is abysmal quality - have played with settings. I am old and blind so have mercy - I need a good camera 📷.

Is there a setting trick or is it just a thing I should have my dlr look at next service Interval?

 

no u r not going to see an improvement - the back up camera is abysmal 🥴🥴🥴

 

lol its terrible

 

Yes, it is shockingly awful. I can never understand how these manufacturers end up with such bad technology at the launch of a model when there are so many manufacturers with better technology/implementation at that time. It’s software, it is really that hard/expensive to copy it after taking a look at a few examples??!?!?

That said, the driving experience is on a deifferent level so I will deal with the shortcomings which are mostly tolerable.

 

Maybe ignorance is bliss, because I think it's quite clear and undistorted in mine. I have the Premium Package which includes surround view so maybe that's different/better than the standard camera.

 

I’ll go with ignorance and/or tolerance. I have surround view as well and the backup camera functions fine but is terrible compared to that made by other manufacturers. Many of the other backup cameras of the 992 vintage just look better/clearer/more realistic. I find the 992’s backup camera video has what I would call a fisheye look to it.

 

its pretty bad compared to the competition. tech is one of the areas Porsche need to improve as its getting embarrassing

 

ya they should call up their neighbors in munich. bmw infotainment was amazing. lots of small things. for example i have my steering wheel diamond button set to open my sources. i click it and on the screen i see a list of my sources. i click a source.. why doesn't that screen go away? i still see the list of sources and i've already selected my source..

lots of small things but at the end of the day i did not buy this car for the infotainment or electronics; but that is not an excuse for porsche

 

Is the 992.2 camera the same or updated?

 

It’s all relative. My 992 has the best backup camera of my 8 cars. Then again only one other has a backup camera at all and it’s an older Porsche (991.2 GT3T) and the vast majority of my cars have no backup camera or parking sensors. The good news is all my cars have 3 mirrors and I can still turn my neck. The only time I really care about a camera is when backing up onto my lift but even then it’s not a huge deal.

 

understandable but i hate to make excuses for companies. its 2024. its not difficult to put in a high quality back up camera with no distortion. No excuse in a car at this price point.

 

I can definitely see that argument but I can also see that Porsche is merely complying with a government requirement without much engineering enthusiasm behind it. Personally, I prefer less tech so I don’t care much about the backup cameras. It’s sort of like Porsche (and other German manufacturers) finally caving into American consumer preferences and reluctantly adding convoluted cup holders a couple decades ago. Maybe I’m a Luddite but I have never used a cup holder and would gladly rip them out of the handful of cars I have that have them.

 

It does the job I need it to do and I haven’t found any issue with it.

 

The 992 backup camera is worse than my wife's 2019 BMW, worse than my old G80 M3 by far, even if it has surround view. I use my mirrors to back into places more than I use the camera.

 

with surround view its passable... but yes... strangely awful given what comes standard in a toyota corrola these days