Quote: Originally Posted by TomG
its probably washed out because of the way the camera meters. Even a center weighting would still have some of the dash in view which is a lot darker than the sky outside so it is overexposing, I wouldn't have thought there would be a way round it short of actually having the camera outside so it doesn't see anything other than you want it to meter for.
btw, the videos lag on mine too, in that, they each pause a couple of times when playing back. I have a P4 2.6 Northwood HT and a gig of dual channel PC3200 so I doubt its my machine...
I also get the lag, thought it was my machine
It's funny, I tried upgrading today after doing these, then every video encoded after that was frigging upside down so I had to uninstall it and go back to the previous version.
I'll have to try screwing some more with the dsp features, though they didn't seem to do much last time around to improve the situation.
As far as the compensating, there's got to be something else to it. With different lenses, it does a much better job of compensating. I can aim it at a bright light and see the element. Maybe it's a combination of the low F and the wide lens. The other ones I've tried that fare better are more narrow to various degrees.
For instance, one that adjusts from F-1.5 to 16 fairs slightly better than the wide angle F1.6 even at F-1.5. At about 2,it's close to perfect.
In all the experiments in the house, I never had that washed out effect ever. Even aiming a red laser at it, some of the surrounding scene could be seen with good composition (unless you hit it dead center and then the whole thing was white/red), maybe it was a voltage problem for the camera or the lilliput. In the first videos, the camera was hooked up to the camcorder at all times. The last, to the screen. Though I was driving around with just the screen at first with no problems.
