Price When Reviewed

$139.99

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$139.99

Ombar’s 4K competent sprint cam duo reveals that being a relative unknown within the sprint cam area isn’t essentially a deal-killer. Not solely does it take good entrance and rear video, it has a lot of the bells and whistles you’d anticipate (GPS excepted) from a contemporary sprint cam. That the duo is slim, good trying, and solely $140 on the time of this writing additional heightens the enchantment.

Further studying: See our roundup of the best dash cams to study competing merchandise.

What are the Ombar 4K’s options?

The rectangular entrance digicam (see prime photograph) is a 2160p, 30 frames-per-second unit with a 150-degree area of view. The physique measures roughly 3.7-inches large by 1.56-inches tall and is a bit over 1.5-inches thick together with the lens housing. Elsewhere the physique is barely lower than an inch throughout.

It sports activities a large, 3.18-inch coloration show with 5 buttons on the underside that will let you flip options on and off, in addition to navigate the fairly intensive menu. The buttons are multi-function, with the principle capabilities illustrated as tiny icons just under the show.

Being accustomed to sprint cam norms, I discovered navigation straightforward, however novices to sprint cams ought to spend a while with the person information first. The labels are fairly arduous to learn with the digicam mounted on the windshield.

The left aspect of the front-facing digicam is house to the micro SD card slot (TF card, U3 or higher) and micro HDMI rear-camera port. The Type-C energy port is on the captive, vertically swiveling mount physique.

The mount physique slides into a skinny, semi-permanent adhesive plate that attaches to the windshield. I discovered it fairly straightforward to take away the digicam for safe-keeping. One of the simpler to mate/unmate configurations that I’ve tried. As there’s no horizontal adjustment of any variety out there, take your time orienting the front camera. Same goes for the rear digicam.

The cylindrical rear digicam is 1080p, 30fps, with a 140-degree area of view (proven above), and is round 2.1-inches large and 1.2-inches thick. It’s completely connected to its adhesive mount, however the captive cable could also be indifferent from the principle cable operating from the entrance digicam. Not that that’s actually any assist in eradicating the digicam from the automobile.

Hint: As all the time, it’s smart to connect the digicam’s cable and energy up the rear digicam so you’ll be able to see its view on the entrance digicam’s show earlier than completely attaching it — I’ve put in cameras the wrong way up a number of instances by omitting this step

While there’s no GPS on board (I believed there can be given the scale of the mount, the place the GPS module is commonly housed), there’s Wi-Fi so you’ll be able to connect with your cellphone and the OnCam app proven beneath.

The app is a handier technique to change settings and offers a reside view in addition to playback of beforehand captured movies. And in contrast to some cam apps, it related shortly and with out problem. At least in case you don’t think about switching to the sprint cam’s Wi-Fi community painful.

How are the Ombar 4K’s captures?

I discovered the Ombar’s 2160 entrance day captures fairly good, if not the very best I’ve seen from a 4K UHD sprint cam. Detail is plentiful and the colour properly saturated.

At night time there’s nonetheless element within the entrance captures, however in low-light they get a tad grainy. Especially in the course of the transition from full low-light to headlights in view. It’s momentary, although, and completely comprehensible.

Also, the encompassing areas develop into considerably darker when the digicam compensates for headlights. Happily, nonetheless, the main points in surrounding areas largely return in case you brighten the picture in post-production. Good sufficient.

The 1080 captures from the rear digicam I’d deem acceptable in the course of the day, although they’re definitely lower than the standard of the entrance captures, and to a lesser extent, different 1080p cameras I’ve examined.

At night time (see beneath) the rear digicam couldn’t seize the license plate numbers on a automobile parked a mere 15 toes away. Note that the fogginess is in truth fog, however it wasn’t heavy sufficient to obscure a lot element this shut.

Altogether, element from the again digicam is a tad missing. Hardly tragic or worthy of a no-buy suggestion, however hardly optimum in comparison with a number of the higher competitors.

Should you purchase the Ombar 4K sprint cam?

The Ombar 4K offers lots of bang for the buck because it’s a good-looking piece of {hardware} that’s straightforward to put in and use. Despite the shortage of GPS and the so-so rear captures, I’d put it on my brief record if I used to be discount searching.