DATAKAM G5-CITY MAX-BF Limited Edition

Advantages: Good equipment, almost always the quick response of those.
support for treatment.

Disadvantages: Very poor quality at a great price.

Comment: Datakam G5-City Max-BF Limited Edition is my second experience with Datakam and also unsuccessful, like the first.
The first was Datakam G9 max. He broke down six months after purchase. Warranty repaired, but after 4 months, he broke down again.
I bought a G5-City, I thought I’d get lucky, but no - in the video I shot, there is a spot in the center of the screen. In those. support said maybe a spot on the matrix, send it in for repair, we will do it under warranty.
Registrars, which the company is positioning as a premium class and asking for the appropriate price for them, are of very low quality. And sending in warranty repair EMS sending adds to the price of the registrar the considerable sum.
And the repair quality is no different.

Advantages: Improved mount; speedcam bases; Excellent device support with new firmware and databases for speeds; high quality video.

Disadvantages: In this case, the errors in the work, the bad quality of the video did not meet.

Comment: Was purchased for personal use. Just the same in a month I bought a gift to my best friend. I stayed and am very pleased with the work and the quality of the device. Avtodoroiya, Robot, Arrow - all without problems is detected and located. There are fresh bases and firmware. The more often you update, the better and more the registrar detects all sorts of robots. In comparison with the standard version of the recorder, the mount is improved in the limiter, magnets are added. Included are two flash cards of 32 GB each. Not the cheapest card, I note.Changed voice alerts to a gentle female voice. Nothing complicated, you need to replace some files with others. Navigation. Collaboration of modules takes excellent. The maximum was 85 channels. Optics seem to be better in quality. When I was buying, I compared the videos from the limit and the standard version. Limit still removes clearer, less noise and blur.

Advantages: The presence of the screen 1.6, which does not distract from the drop. Support for HD video recording. There are voice prompts, warning "Arrow", "Robot", "MESTA", etc.

Disadvantages: Slightly overpriced price tag.

Comment: I bought the registrar recently. First of all I appreciated its appearance: it was made qualitatively, the size is convenient, especially the screen, it does not distract while driving, it does not blind at night. The camera has a fairly wide viewing angle of 130 ° (diagonally), 110 ° (in width). The video quality is very good, the night mode is slightly worse than the day one, but still normal. Included are convenient mountings and 2 memory cards of 32GB each.

Advantages: Lens hood, 64GB of memory in the set, quality of the footage, assembly of the case

Comment: The registrar is uniquely 5 points. Yes, dear, the toad is still strangling me, but it has already been bought, which is now. The rollers are very large. In principle, this is not a problem, because the memory bundle totals as much as 64 GB, but still, it's too much weight. Do not forget to turn off the light filter in the evening, or when there is no sun. He darkens the picture very much. For the rest - it has no equal.

Advantages: The quality of the blend filter, high-quality shooting, even in poor lighting conditions.

Disadvantages: High price.

Comment: Before buying, the main goal was to buy a device without problems and with the maximum number of functions, the machine I have is far from being the most voluminous, so I decided to take all the Datakamian one. The firmware is updated easily, without errors and long waits. I especially liked the blend filter, thanks to which there are no glares and highlights on the records, the torpedo in Lobovyk is practically not reflected, and the picture is excellent. In the box with the device there was everything that could be needed, only one connection cable is such that the device can be connected in the most perverted ways - lengths with a margin. Regic does not require attention and constant adjustment, the system automatically selects the most appropriate shooting mode in this situation, well, if necessary, you can switch the mode through the menu, since it was done reasonably.

Advantages: The bitrate is set to find (no need to stop recording to set the necessary settings). I try to set a smaller bitrate on deserted sections of the road, in order not to load the processor and memory, and in the city I steadily maximize it so that the detailing is present. Speedcam has already delivered attention from stationary cameras, radars and traffic police posts four times. In general, everything is literally tuned in the recorder: from the bit rate and the setting of the “invisible” mode to the sensitivity of the G-sensor and the volume of the voice alert. Generally I am silent about increasing / decreasing the font in the menu ... The basic functions of managing the captured video are available directly on the recorder.

Disadvantages: The screen is clearly not intended for a full view of the material. The price would be cut back.

Comment: 2 memory cards for a long time in the recorder did not stay. Children immediately razed on smartphones. In exchange received 8 + 16 GB (fair exchange)). After a while, I stopped at the thought that, with the cyclical nature of the recording, one card for 8 and one more gigabyte for 4 for the protocol, for example, would be quite enough ...the recorder is not bad, what about video capabilities, what about the build quality and design.

Advantages: Kit, function, shooting.

Disadvantages: It is a pity that the registrar can not be used as a navigator.

Comment: I managed to buy a limited registrar before it disappeared from sales. To take, so to take to the maximum. Already two cheap registrars were with me and not one did not work efficiently. The limited version has many improvements in comparison with the regular version of the DATAKAM G5-CITY MAX-BF recorder. In the service center I bought. Specially took the laptop with me and checked the captured video from these two models. In the limit, the objects in the video are somehow more tangible, clearer, there is no blurring. The kit is better and bigger (two flash drives included 10 speed classes). What I personally liked when using the registrar. Angle what kind of shooting - 170 degrees. It is captured on a half of cars to the side of me. At night, the recorder behaves well. Interestingly, the stopaki in the complete darkness of the machines in the distance do not have a halo. Navigation. In the description stated up to 99 channels. I understand that this is the number of satellites being caught. More than 35 I did not have. Starts and begins to write a track quickly, in less than a minute. Avtodoria and Robot. In short, the definition of radar on the ground. After the purchase, I updated the firmware and database. When approaching each camera or radar I get a sound alert.

Comment: Only silently put five points. A flurry of emotions after the purchase, configuration and full launch of the recorder in his cabin. Robot, arrows, autodoria ... All posts are found on fresh maps. Just throw a new firmware in time and be sure, the recorder will squeal in advance and tell about the cameras and radars. GPS assists in orientation around the district, gives time, date and speed and automatically records them on video. Not big lines, not blocking the main events on the video. Video cool. Net five quality. You can understand not only the numbers of cars, but also the degree of cloudiness of the sky. There is no difference between shooting through the windshield and the outside. The difference appears when shooting without a blend filter. Without the last entry outside the cabin cars often with highlights. Now I will go on a trip by car, time-lapse just to the place will be. He tested it. Time-lapse video takes ten times less space on memory cards (there are two of them in the region), but the quality is no worse than the main video.

Advantages: Powerful Ambarella A5s mobile processor. Unscrambled and allows you to record video with a bit rate of 20 Mb / s. This is in my opinion much more useful than any SuperHD permissions and stuff like that. As a result, a picture with a high bit rate turns out better, whatever one may say.
The food is very original. It is not the recorder that is powered, but the holder, and the recorder is already attached to it on neodymium magnets. And the cabin is not stuffed with wires, and shoot reg quickly.
Speedcam detector system. It can show a lot of things - traffic lights, turns, even speed bumps. But the main thing is radar. And she works around the world.
Set: two mounts, two memory cards, cover, glossy panel.

Comment: Perhaps, I will join the enthusiastic reviews below - the registrar is really without flaws. Without a single. Yes, and in such a configuration that neither don’t be ashamed to give it, nor leave it to myself: two flash drives, a case, two fasteners, a bleed filter ... all that is needed, in general.

Comment: It's hard for me to think of what else can be added to this recorder to make it even better ... Well, except that the second camera is back. But otherwise there is everything. DATAKAM G5-CITY MAX-BF Limited Edition (in this configuration) - the best registrar that I have met in 18 years of driving practice.Why? Yes, because! He probably removes at the limit of what miniature cameras can now produce, the equipment is nowhere more complete: 2 flakes, carrying case, gift wrap, 2 fasteners, long cable. Well, as a bonus - an absolute bomb - blendofilter. Cuts the sun's rays at times, and in summer it is especially important! Minus, naturally 1 - the price. Not only everyone can dump 18k for the registrar) But I allocated money and I am satisfied.