Notice that you can read the license plate numbers. This is actually quite good for a rear-view camera mounted next to the front camera. The rear view night capture doesn’t seem as nice, but it did not have the advantage of streetlights and headlights brightening up the landscape that the front camera did. Overall, still decent low-light capture.Ī capture of oncoming traffic here in SF at night. You also lost detail in the dark areas to the sides. Color is fairly accurate, though it doesn’t handle headlight flare quite as well as others. The 222X’s front night captures reveal good detail straight ahead, but not as much as many cameras to the sides. This is with the convertible top up and a poorly adjusted rear camera. The beginning of Interstate 80 here in San Francisco. The images still show off the quality 720p nicely. ![]() Subsequent use showed I was being just a tad paranoid. It was so stiff at first, I was afraid of breaking it. If you know anything about SF, yes that’s the now-shuttered Cliff House.Īs you might notice from the two rear day captures, I was all over the place adjusting the swiveling rear camera. Front view on a nice sunny day.įorgive me, but it was so nice here in SF the day I tested, I dropped the top and included an extra rear-day capture just to make you jealous. Tooling along next to San Francisco’s Marina. Unlike with many cameras, detail doesn’t suddenlty pop out as you brighten the image either. Peripheral detail is inferior to what we’ve seen from other Nexbase cameras, or recent competition. The night captures are decent, with the same saturation and detail in the middle 90 degrees. It would be nice if the rear-view camera were 1080p, but it still picked up license plate numbers nicely (even at night), and the lower resolution uses less storage. There’s a bit of moiré (unintentional patterning in the image), but not enough to worry about. The 222X’s day captures offer good color saturation and detail with few artifacts. ![]() All in all, I’d call the the 222X easy to install and use. There’s onscreen help for the buttons when necessary. It’s all easy enough to use once you’re acclimated. Pressing the Record button will disable the lock and turn off recording. They consist of Mode, which switches from capture to playback Record/ On/Off/Enter Power on/off Menu for access to settings (press twice for the second menu) navigation buttons for scrolling through the menus and a lock-the-video (don’t overwrite) button on the bottom. The buttons that control the onscreen interface surround the display. As there is a chance, however slight, that your 12-volt dash cam connection will be disrupted in an accident, this is a handy feature. The included battery also keeps the unit running for a full 15 seconds after losing power.
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