Go Pro hero 2, secret to good quality internal video?

[jaffaz32]

Although the GoPro is great in lots of light, in a car with tinted windows like mine with little light coming in, it's not great.

I used it the other day and the interior of the car looked great but outside the front windscreen looked hazed, and allot of glare, really bad.

Any tips?

 

[ChrisK]

Although the GoPro is great in lots of light, in a car with tinted windows like mine with little light coming in, it's not great.

I used it the other day and the interior of the car looked great but outside the front windscreen looked hazed, and allot of glare, really bad.

Any tips?

I turn on spot metering on my GoPro 2. It doesn't improve the washed out outside look by leaps and bounds, but it does help and makes it look better. You'll find the interior will now look darker, but the outside will look less washed out. Still a little washed out, but not as bad.

 

[Mac Attack]

One trick is to use window tint covering half of the lense.

Obviously, do this on a piece of lexan, then secure it over the lense. You'll have to mess with aligning it to the base of your windshield, but it should help. Also play around with the tint darkness too.

That's what I used to do.

Dave

 

[NSX-Barque]

Spot metering and make sure its centre-pointed into the interior for best results...

 

[jaffaz32]

I have maxed out the options avialible to the GoPro.

Still getting terrible glare so bought Polar Polarized filters. Then decided sod that so bought a BlurFix Lens which is a 55mm Lens for the front and a Hoya HD polarized filter for that also a lens hood. So the Lens will be huge...

I have enough before videos, waiting for it to arrive and will share the results.

 

[Hapa88]

What are you trying to capture exactly? The interior or the outside?

CHOOSING EXPOSURE SETTING
Choose between Spot Meter and Center Weighted Average Meter exposure settings depending on the lighting of your environment:

Cnt (default setting): Center weighted average meter is best for normal outdoor and indoor lighting conditions.

SPt: Spot meter is primarily for shooting from inside of a car or other dark space looking out into a brighter outside setting. Spot meter adjusts the exposure for the absolute center of the scene, for example the road ahead instead of the interior of the car.
If you are wanting optimum exposure of the inside of the car, filming mainly the driver for example, choose Cnt center weighted average
to expose for the inside of the car.

http://gopro.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/HD-HERO-UM-ENG-110110.pdf

 

[jaffaz32]

What are you trying to capture exactly? The interior or the outside?



http://gopro.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/HD-HERO-UM-ENG-110110.pdf

Camera inside the car, trying to capture outside.

This is the video, in question. Have many like it.

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Thanks. Will try playing with those settings.

I have the new lens installed. very disapointed!! Was expensive for what it is. I was expecting it to replace the plastic lens which is part of the case but it actually uses that, thought it might come with a glass one.

What you get is a bracket i guess which replaces the black plastic ring only while using the plastic lens of the case and you screw filters on to that.

 

[jaffaz32]

and here it is assembled

 

[Hapa88]

Based on the video you posted, it looks like your GoPro was on the "Cnt/Default" setting. I think by just changing to "SPt", you'll get much better results.

I would try this just driving around the streets. You may also want to raise camera slightly, so that the center of the frame is pointing outside the windshield (currently it looks like it's pointing at the dash). This might help.