---

layout: post
title:  "G1W-C G1W-H afforable dash camera"
date:   June 30, 2015
author:
  display_name: 'sipp11'
categories: review
tags: gallery, camera, youtube

imgfolder: http://media.mycapsules.com/2015/06-g1wh
image_set:
  - name: g1wc
    images:
      - id: 2
        path: g1wc-2.jpg
        thumb: g1wc-2-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-C #2
      - id: 3
        path: g1wc-3.jpg
        thumb: g1wc-3-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-C #3
      - id: 1
        path: g1wc-1.jpg
        thumb: g1wc-1-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-C #1
      - id: 4
        path: g1wc-4.jpg
        thumb: g1wc-4-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-C #4
      - id: 5
        path: g1wc-5.jpg
        thumb: g1wc-5-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-C #5
  - name: g1wh
    images:
      - id: 1
        path: g1wh-1.jpg
        thumb: g1wh-1-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-H #1
      - id: 2
        path: g1wh-2.jpg
        thumb: g1wh-2-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-H #2
      - id: 3
        path: g1wh-3.jpg
        thumb: g1wh-3-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-H #3
      - id: 4
        path: g1wh-4.jpg
        thumb: g1wh-4-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-H #4
      - id: 5
        path: g1wh-5.jpg
        thumb: g1wh-5-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-H #5
      - id: 11
        path: g1wh-11jpg
        thumb: g1wh-11-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-H 11
      - id: 6
        path: g1wh-6.jpg
        thumb: g1wh-6-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-H #6
      - id: 7
        path: g1wh-7.jpg
        thumb: g1wh-7-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-H #7
      - id: 8
        path: g1wh-8.jpg
        thumb: g1wh-8-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-H #8
      - id: 9
        path: g1wh-9.jpg
        thumb: g1wh-9-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-H #9
      - id: 10
        path: g1wh-10.jpg
        thumb: g1wh-10-sm.jpg
        title: G1W-H #10

--- 

If you are looking for camera for your car, look no further. This is what you like to get.

<!--more-->

## G1W-C

I have 2 of this so far: $42 and $39 consecutively. Here is a rough idea on paper.

* 2.7 inch screen
* 4x digital zoom with 120 degree wide angle
* Capacitor Battery (just enough to close the file, then turn itself off after power down)
* Video Resolution: 1920x1080
* HDMI out, AV out
* 32 micro SD card maximum
* output: MOV/JPG
* record at 1920px*1080px will consume roughly 100MB per minutes (16GB MicroSD card holds ~ 3 hour of record)

#### Original File from ffmpeg
    Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '18480012.MOV':
      Metadata:
        major_brand     : qt
        minor_version   : 0
        compatible_brands: qt
        creation_time   : 2004-01-01 00:00:00
      Duration: 00:02:30.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 13069 kb/s
        Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1920x1080, 11874 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 30k tbn, 60k tbc (default)

There is nothing particularly pleasant to talk about its hardware; only a cheap regular Chinese toy to me.

{% include lightbox_itemset.html set="g1wc" %}

### Example

Go checkout at 1080p resolution at full screen to see how well it performs.

During the day,

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XvaW2C2VE0U" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

At night, 

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ccblmI5Z4NM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Its durability? I've this for almost a year now, it hasn't give me any problem yet. That's enough to justify how good it really is IMHO.

----

## G1W-H

G1W-H, a successor of G1W-C, which improves every bits over G1W-C, but it doesn't do anything extra enough to upgrade for all that owned G1W-C. It usually costs a tiny bit more than G1W-C, roughly $42 at the time I bought it.

{% include lightbox_itemset.html set="g1wh" %}

Both their UI equally sucks. I can't deny that, but once you set it you indeed never touch it again.