Name: Please Stop WASTING Money on CRAPPY Dashcams
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There's two things we can all agree on about dash cams.

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First is that they are absolutely necessary if you've ever been in or witnessed an accident, which statistically speaking is you and everyone you know.

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The second is that regardless of the price, they all look pretty terrible.

Even when I picked a winner three years ago, there were absolutely edge cases where it clearly fell short.

But technology marches ever onward, right?

So we bought today's best selling and most highly reviewed dash cams to see if finally I can be satisfied.

Are there features other than image quality that'll make a difference to our top choice?

Do you basically get what you pay for or are there some diamonds in the rough?

And how is it that this one costs 30 times as much as this one?

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As you might expect, deploying 10 dash cameras at once for a review means we needed a large windshield and a good power sour.

We settled on our work truck, a Ford F150 with a Sabrent 16 in one USB hub plugged into a Jackery Explorer 2000 Pro.

Due to the long wiring runs and the importance of not losing power to any of our Cameras, we used nine of our new 4 meter LTT cables available now@lttstore.com now it is worth noting that some of our dash cams included additional rear or interior cameras for multi channel operation.

These can be super handy for rear enders and and passenger related incidents.

However, they're always lower resolution than the front camera so our image quality comparisons are going to focus on the primary.

With that out of the way, our first three contestants are.

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All three are attractively priced around $50 to $100 on promo so I think I can forgive them for being a little lighter on the features and a little higher on the jank and weird names like this box.

And to yonvim's credit they do at least have a website.

But the box for their two channel camera system includes instructions that appear to be for a completely different brand.

Janwould Stepping up a little bit in price we get the three channel suvcon.

Aside from an additional camera, its main standout feature is the inclusion of HDR or High dynamic range, but

at this price, using a low tier image sensor, it may be combining multiple exposures to better capture the brightest and darkest parts of a scene, but

Its main claim to fame is lots and lots of cameras front, back and two of these funky flexible ones that can pan and tilt 180 degrees.

Since the main unit is so wide, we have to mount it a little lower on the windshield, but

for anyone who isn't running 10 dash cams, that probably won't be a problem.

It's the first to include WI fi and it also ships with a 128 gig card, helping propel it to the full fourth best selling dash cam on Amazon.

If only that were an indication of quality.

dash cam manufacturers use terms like HDR and WDR pretty loosely, so why don't we talk about what they mean?

Newer tech like Sony's clear HDR on their Starvis 2 sensors captures two different images, one high gain and one low gain for post processing, which can add a little bit of noise and clarity loss, but

can produce an overall more detailed image.

The Starvis 2 also supports digital overlap HDR, which uses sequential short and then long exposures, which can add motion blur.

Which of these implementations gets used can significantly affect quality, and

we've also found cases where HDR claims are made with absolutely no evidence of them doing either of those things.

In theory, it performs the same function as hdr, using hardware and software to capture and combine multiple near simultaneous exposures of for a more balanced image.

This is to help preserve detail in both the highlights and in the shadows.

However, many vendors use Digital wdr, a cheaper, less effective solution that uses only software to adjust shadows and highlights.

So we're not going to pay too much attention to these feature claims because real world image quality is what matters.

All three of our under $100 cameras are pretty much equal at reading license plates in motion.

Maybe the Ivy has the better overall image quality.

The sky isn't quite as overexposed and the power lines are more visible here the SUVCON manages a pretty pleasing image with a vibrant blue sky and green grass, and

they all look pretty equal to me for the legibility of the van's letters here.

Moving on to twilight, the IWI has the best static focus, with the 198zine being the most clear out of the three.

But while the Yonvim's lack of even pretend HDR results in the sky being darker than the other two, it comes out ahead on the readability of the truck's letters here when it drives by.

And that's because of its higher 30fps capture.

The subcon, meanwhile, is unremarkable in our Twilight test.

Moving on to nighttime, this footage is very interesting.

Again, the Yonvim, with its higher frame rate wins the day with the clearest image.

The 151.9 price on the street sign is more legible than the others, and

as for the subcon, it's definitely the loser here with out of focus and blurry video.

After testing all the lower tier and cheaper cameras, then our top pick kind of depends on your needs for capturing motion video.

We recommend the Yonvim, however, if your main priority is parking surveillance mode, the IWI is substantially more expensive but likely a better fit recording with nearly 360 degree coverage.

Both use a sticker style mount though, and

if you prefer a reusable suction cup with then the subcon might stand out for that reason.

Realistically, none of them wowed me though, raising the question, could I just get the basic functionality that I need for less?

Let's find out by tightening our budget and taking a look at the $19 MakeWills dashcam.

It's not especially well reviewed, it's not especially popular, but 19 bucks is 19 bucks.

So if this thing is any good, we could save our viewers anywhere from three to four Happy Meals.

The cheap plastic mount broke before we could even install it, and

the packaging is so generic that it literally says brand on it.

like remember how there was text on the side of this van here?

As for nighttime, no wonder they call it brand.

In conclusion, there's a minimum floor for what you should probably spend on a dash cam, but

Let's juice up our budget and see if this trio of 4K cameras is worth the extra money or not extra money.

See, in theory these are priced anywhere from 100 to $200, but

all of them were available on a discount, putting them pretty much in direct competition with the iwi.

Bad news for the IWI because instead of mystery meat image sensors, all of our next tier cameras boast a Sony Starvis 2 sensor.

With that said, not all Starvis 2s are made equal, so it's kind of like saying a gaming PC uses GeForce.

Well, Red Tiger wouldn't tell us, but it doesn't seem to be holding back their sales.

The F7NP is the number three best seller on Amazon with dual channel recording and a front camera that boasts up to 4K30 or 1080p120fps.

However, despite achieving 4K30fps during our daylight test, our camera automatically and without warning dropped to 25 FPS for Twilight and nighttime shots.

Our second hundred plus dollar model was the Rove R2 4K dual.

This was Amazon's second best selling dash cam when we bought it and despite its confusing name, it is not in fact a dual 4K camera.

on paper the value is still there with an IMX 675 primary sensor, not to mention some nice extras like a free 128GB micro SD card.

The final camera in this group is the JZone V630.

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