RobertK
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RobertK
Hi all,
I just started taking flying lessons in NorCal. To improve my learning, I decided to record cockpit video and audio, which allows me to go back to any point of time in the lesson.
On my last flight I hooked up a GoPro Hero7 to the cabin ceiling and I'm pretty happy about the field of view and with 1080p recording I can read all the instruments, which is what I want.
(Un)fortunately the weather in California is mostly nice, which means the outside is very bright, while the dark instrument panel is most of the time in the shadow = very dark. The result is that only in turns like in the attached picture, where the sun is lighting up the panel, the video shows the outside. 98% of the remainder of the flight it shows nothing but white glare in the front window. Is there any trick to convince my GoPro to improve the High Dynamic Range of the recording to show all the dark panel details as well as the outside scenery? I assume a post recording processing will not help much and be of tedious work.
One thing I'm going to try is to use the more forward mounting spot in the red circle. Maybe it changes things as more of the video becomes brighter in general, but it's located just right in front of our heads, so I'm guessing it's gonna be a quite a distraction and that's a no-go...
Thanks a lot for your inputs!
Robert
I just started taking flying lessons in NorCal. To improve my learning, I decided to record cockpit video and audio, which allows me to go back to any point of time in the lesson.
On my last flight I hooked up a GoPro Hero7 to the cabin ceiling and I'm pretty happy about the field of view and with 1080p recording I can read all the instruments, which is what I want.
(Un)fortunately the weather in California is mostly nice, which means the outside is very bright, while the dark instrument panel is most of the time in the shadow = very dark. The result is that only in turns like in the attached picture, where the sun is lighting up the panel, the video shows the outside. 98% of the remainder of the flight it shows nothing but white glare in the front window. Is there any trick to convince my GoPro to improve the High Dynamic Range of the recording to show all the dark panel details as well as the outside scenery? I assume a post recording processing will not help much and be of tedious work.
One thing I'm going to try is to use the more forward mounting spot in the red circle. Maybe it changes things as more of the video becomes brighter in general, but it's located just right in front of our heads, so I'm guessing it's gonna be a quite a distraction and that's a no-go...
Thanks a lot for your inputs!
Robert