Wolfbox rear camera too dark

[HereinDaRockies]

Just installed the g900 tripro.

I am extremely underwhelmed by the rear camera.

In broad day light, the rear image is significantly darker than the front camera. It’s dark enough to make it a safety issue. On a sunny day, the view out the windshield overpowers the dark image from the wolfbox’s rear camera

It doesn’t help that Wolfbox doesn’t allow you to adjust expose compensation for the rear camera.

I am surprised by the lack of more people calling this out. I would not have gotten it, if I had known about this tremendous drop in usability with the rear camera. Makes me wonder - Something wrong with the unit I have?

@WolfBox will you guys be allowing exposure comp on the rear camera? Doesn’t make sense for that feature to be limited to the front camera

Photos below taken in manual camera mode. So there is no auto exp compensation from my camera.

See the image of the wolfbox comparing against the infotainment screen, to give you a reference.

A photo of the front camera is also attached to showcase it’s not a display issue. Purely a camera issue

 

[landmannnn]

I've not got that exact model, but mine is fine.
You've not left the protecting screen on the camera lens?

 

[Lars]

I have the exact same issue and criticism. Try wearing sunglasses...you cannot see a thing. I was told by one installer that's the way these cameras work when they face the Sun. Still better than stock mirror but not ideal. I've considered buying anonther system, but i'm afraid it will be the same.

 

[HereinDaRockies]

I have the exact same issue and criticism. Try wearing sunglasses...you cannot see a thing. I was told by one installer that's the way these cameras work when they face the Sun. Still better than stock mirror but not ideal. I've considered buying anonther system, but i'm afraid it will be the same.

Our Subaru with OEM digital rear mirror is excellent. The image is so pretty sometimes I glance at it too much, when there is a nice view towards the back of the car.

This Wolfbox rear camera is blue-ish and dark. I need to stare at it for 0.5sec - 1 sec to make out the content of the image. It’s terrible.

@WolfBox this can be trivially resolved by enabling exposure compensation on the rear camera…

 

[Zenbox]

As long as we are being critical, I think the Wolfbox camera could be much better at night as well. It is still better than the stock camera, but there is room for improvement.

 

[HereinDaRockies]

As long as we are being critical, I think the Wolfbox camera could be much better at night as well. It is still better than the stock camera, but there is room for improvement.

Do you have examples of modern digital rear mirror that works materially better at night? I would say our Subaru’s oem camera is slightly better at night. But Night n Day better during daylight.

 

[WolfBox]

Thanks for your feedback. I'll send this to our engineering team. Maybe they'll make some improvement in the future firmware update.

 

[Clark Kent]

Our Subaru with OEM digital rear mirror is excellent. The image is so pretty sometimes I glance at it too much, when there is a nice view towards the back of the car.

This Wolfbox rear camera is blue-ish and dark. I need to stare at it for 0.5sec - 1 sec to make out the content of the image. It’s terrible.

@WolfBox this can be trivially resolved by enabling exposure compensation on the rear camera…

Looping back to @landmannnn's point: Have you removed the protective film from the rear camera lens?

 

[HereinDaRockies]

Looping back to @landmannnn's point: Have you removed the protective film from the rear camera lens?

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Yes.

 

[HereinDaRockies]

Thanks for your feedback. I'll send this to our engineering team. Maybe they'll make some improvement in the future firmware update.

Thank you.

Another thing I realized after another day of usage -

The image from the sensor is currently high contrast. This also contributes to the dark issue. If the contrast is reduced, it will allow t objects in the shadow to be more visible.

 

[hardloaf]

I also have similar complaints about image quality of G900. Display is not bright enough for sunny days and this is a hardware problem - it is what it is. They sell inexpensive matt film - I'd suggest to add it. It helps a lot with glare and makes image look more acceptable. Inability to adjust color temperature of the image is another missing software feature which stresses out human vision - it's so cold (bluish), that it always mismatches outside world and looks very amateurish for a big vendor. Compared to OEM 8+ years old GM rear camera mirror this one is very underwhelming.
Fixing color temperature is the primary problem for me now. Night time performance is another - if camera mounted behind glass its tint consumes a lot of light and makes image extremely noisy in low light situations. This also can be addressed in software to some extent. Even switch to lower res BW image would be better than what it shows now.

Good thing about Wolfbox is that they are listening. They issued a new firmware update recently and it actually addressed some exact usability issues I complained about few weeks ago. I was impressed with speed, can't deny that. So they are trying.

 

[HereinDaRockies]

I am very surprised everyone has such glowing review of the WolfBox. It’s very subpar IMO. Worst accessory I have spent so far on the grenadier.

putting this sentiment out here to balance the Wolfbox hype a bit on this forum, in case it helps someone to consider this accessory.

 

[Chadd7]

I'm happy with mine. No complaints here.

 

[Jeremy996]

I'm happy with mine - it does what it said on the tin. It wasn't too much of a bear to install either. I will get the custom mount sometime as I'm not crazy about strapping it to the mirror, but it is far from a deal-breaker.