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Old 07-26-2017, 09:20 AM
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Compared to my B8.5, and my wife's LR Discovery, this camera is awful. It's super fisheye, fine, I can see a little more, but the contrast is horrible. If you have any sun and shade mixed behind you all you see is sun, shade is blacked out. No idea what's actually back there. Is there a brightness setting in ODeleben?
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I disagree. I've had no issues. There are two types of camera views you can adjust to for the back and front. I like the second one where it's less fish eyed
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Originally Posted by Strife1013
I disagree. I've had no issues. There are two types of camera views you can adjust to for the back and front. I like the second one where it's less fish eyed
Were you able to set this as the default? If so, I'm going to do the same thing since I like the second view better myself.
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We don't have an alternate view in Premium +. Just the one super fisheye.
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I have a Prestige and the sun / shade makes no difference, it think it's an excellent, clear image and the top down view is really cool and helpful.
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This is hands down the best backup camera I've seen.
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Here's a quick shot from the Land Rover and the B9 - same time of day, same driveway. Look how much more detail in the shadows you can see in the LR. It was very similar in the B8.5. I think there's probably a software fix: I'd assume the actual camera sensor is decent and not different between Prestige and P+

I park tandem at work and back in, because of the sun hitting the pavement, it's literally a black hole. Before I could see if someone was walking back there, now it's literally impossible. I need to grab a photo of that.
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No way mine is that dark. If I think of it I'll try and get a pic.
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If that's the case, I'll get a more dramatic picture and send it to AOA
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When was your car built? Mine is March 2017.


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