So I am new to the action camera world, but recently bought a Garmin Virb XE to do some mapillary:ing. But so far my experience is not good. The problem is that many pictures become dark.
I’ve been testing a Virb XE, and my experience shows that regardless of what interval you set the photos to be taken, the exposure/white balance are only checked every three seconds. So if you want a good accurate set of photos, set the interval to 3/s, which makes it seem pointless to have the Virb at all. My $40 action cameras also take 3/s photos, and their quality is not much worse, even though the megapixels are much lower.
The XE have a setting where you can lock exposure, or force over/under exposure on the photos. I have not tried these settings as I generally have sufficient light, and the camera have been quick to adjust exposure when moving in and out of shadows.
Elite have a much different menu setup, and don’t give access to setting exposure manually.
I see the other one too. Sorry if I missed you stating this before. Have you made sure your firmware is up to date with the Garmin XE? I’d expect it struggling in some cases but not in the way the trees / sunny day one are showing.
A pic of the car too. I’ll find one of what I do with my XE
FYI, this is how I had my Virb Elite in the rental car, a little Corrola, a little while back. I want to try black velvet for the dash. The main key is having that camera right up against the wind screen. I’m wondering if @filipc may get better results by bringing the camera up on windsceeen.
oh! I didn’t even think of it being on the outside. I wouldn’t imagine there being problems there.
Do you have a route or three that you normally drive? If so, have you had a chance to run some tests with the camera on it and compare the differences? Having 2 pictures per second is 6 times more than what I can do with my Garmin Virb Elite, just a picture every other second. If it’s like some other things in computing, the CPU / computing power needed for that may be exponentially higher. If that’s the case, I’d expect backing it off to a picture every other second should make a clear difference. If not, it’s something else with the firmware.
I don’t think it is worth for mly to program for the Garmin camera.
Has mly no muscle against Garmin ?
Ok, this application won’t spawn many purchases, but it can give Garmin a bad name.
I have captured around 200k pictures with Virb XE and I must say that both the exposure and white balance inaccuracies have been a major disappointment for me. I started post processing all my images with Lightroom to mitigate the issue. I’ve decided to sell the camera and am looking for an alternative at the moment.
I have the Garmin Drive 52 and I’m looking for accessories for it and repair parts. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on where I could purchase spare parts at a cheaper price? I’ve been doing research on this and came across the following website https://fixpart.no/nb. I have no experience with the website. Would anyone happen to know if the quality of the products are up to par? Any feedback or suggestions on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
