I’m building long-range plane and was looking for camera with small frontal area. All my FPV cameras are PZ0420 (with or without IR filter, also known as CMQ1993X on sc2k, sold as CC1333 and CC1333-B on surveilzone) – great cameras for FPV, but huge drag on fast plane.
Found this one – HS1149F – acceptable price and small enough. After 2 weeks… :
It’s really small! Even with this metal case it’s much smaller than PZ0420 with broken off edges (bottom left).
Did short test in my living room with two cams: PZ0420 (no IR filter, better light sensitivity, bad colors) and HS1149F. Sorry, no flight videos with new cam – i won’t have time for at least two weeks and weather sucks (CMQ1993X – the same PZ0420 with IR filter video is here). I maybe add video with new cam later…
So, PZ0420 in my living room, pointing straight to light source:
From left to right:
- “Default settings” – all stock
- WDR On, AGC Medium, BLC On, Brightness/Saturation/Colors adjusted as i like to fly (i used similar settings on FPV meeting video recording). No green lamp on IR-filtered version ;-)
- Low light performance – light turned off, PC below is working and small lamp in another room side… Really dark.
The same image with HS1149F:
From left to right:
- “Default settings” – all stock
- WDR On, AGC Medium, Brightness/Saturation/Colors adjusted a bit. WDR setting at max.
- Low light performance – light turned off, the same lightning conditions.
In short:
- + great low light performance
- + good working WDR, at least in living room
- + small and light
- – settings cable is really stupid, compared to PZ0420 – i will probably set everything as i want and toss it away. Hard to use, heavy, on the same cable as video signal, pffff….
- – price is higher compared to CC1333
First flights after few weeks, if it’s in-air performance will be great – i will replace my other cams too ;-)
EDIT: short comparison video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9vCnUSNJYE