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Old 07-01-2015, 03:59 PM
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For an OEM camera, I'd have no doubts that would be the case - but for an eBay special you are pretty much getting a generic camera moulded to a piece of plastic that fits in a hole - sometimes not even that much!

I just did a camera on our W204 M-Benz, another eBay special, and it has probably 10 degrees of lateral free-play, so even if I did line it up, it wouldn't stay that way for long!

I the cameras to make sure nothing is behind me, posts or trash cans or whatever....that might be below my line of sight. I certainly wouldn't be using it for high speed precision reverse parking!
Camera location is frankly not all that critical, I personally like them to have the a good angle so that I can just see the edge of the bumper (so fixed cams are not that great) but the side to side location is not that critical since they are wide angle lenses.
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Yes but when they're not centred they can give a false representation of where your car is vs the guidelines.

See this pic from mine; you can just see the top of the tow ball which helps with distance, but in terms of width, the guidelines are not centred.

If someone got in the car who wasn't familiar with that, they could be forgiven to backing the corner closest to the street into objects as the guidelines indicate the car will clear.




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This is using the license plate bulb camera that came with the N6.




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Yeah, I hear you......and your example there is about as extreme as Ive seen. That camera has a surprisingly narrow field of view.....doesn't look wide angle at all....you would be better off with no guide lines at all.

Generally Ive not seen ANY guidelines that I would really trust anyway, including on OEM setups. In my personal car I played around with some boxes to see how accurate things were and adjusted the camera to get its as close as possible, but still when things get that close its time for eyes and mirrors.

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Yep, looks like his camera is only 120 degree angle- pretty narrow view. I've seen pretty good wide angle (170+ degrees) cameras on ebay for cheap.
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That's the camera Jeff used to sell (?) with the N6.

Works fine - I've got PDC so it's really just an extra precaution.


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Yeah, we don't carry those anymore. Nothing specifically wrong with them, I just don't really like the lens replacement style...even though they are by far the most popular!.....just as we are discussing, too many compromises in my opinion. I prefer the flexibility of the more universal style cams....no potential for bulb warnings, and any angle and placement you want.

The camera I currently recommend has selectable guidelines so you can remove them if you want....I like that concept.
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Yeah, we don't carry those anymore. Nothing specifically wrong with them, I just don't really like the lens replacement style...even though they are by far the most popular!.....just as we are discussing, too many compromises in my opinion. I prefer the flexibility of the more universal style cams....no potential for bulb warnings, and any angle and placement you want.

The camera I currently recommend has selectable guidelines so you can remove them if you want....I like that concept.
Sounds like a WIN/WIN
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The camera I currently recommend has selectable guidelines so you can remove them if you want....I like that concept.
That's cool! Have a link to the camera?
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eh....not a sponsor here so its not cool for me to post something like that.....but its pretty easy to find since its the only one on our website.
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