If the Dashcam is hardwired to your vehicle’s power, it will also record the previous 15 seconds. The amount of time that the device could wake up from sleep mode via the accelerometer will deteriorate over the unit’s life as with any feature that relies on the in-built battery. It likely could have gone longer, but this was the timeframe we were able to confirm. Without power, the Dash Cam could sleep and wake up 5 hours after it had been without power supply when it detected a motion disturbance. Garmin has tweaked it slightly in that you can now set a ‘monitoring time’ where the Dashcam will stay active ready to detect an ‘incident’ and record the event. The previous Dashcam range offers a parking guard, but it was only available when the Dashcam was hardwired to your vehicle’s power. The Dashcam can only upload videos when it is connected to a WiFi network* The Dashcam will also automatically upload any saved or incident detected videos.
You can manually upload videos to your vault to download or share the link to others this sharing feature requires a passcode. Below is the plan outline for Garmin’s ‘Vault’ cloud service subscription for Australia. Additionally, unlike other Dashcams ‘cloud’ options, there’s no size limit to the upload there’s only a time limit that depends on your plan level. Realistically this feature is targeted at ensuring that should something happen to the vehicle that prevents you from directly retrieving it, then you all have another way to access the video. This is a pretty niche feature, to begin with, and despite the name ‘Vault’, it’s not designed to store your videos indefinitely. Next up, we’ll take a look at Garmin’s new ‘Vault’ storage mode for their Dash Cam range. HDR clarity improves night-time clarity, preventing street lamps from wiping out the entire picture and improving areas’ visual fidelity without street lights. This feature was available on the Dash Cam 56 and 66W.
Garmin has redesigned the faceplate on the camera, and they’ve increased the side buttons a little to make them easier to press if you have big fingers.Īccording to Garmin, the 47 finally gets Clarity HDR video regarding the software changes, which improves visual clarity.
The Garmin Dash Cam 47 is priced at $269 RRP and shoots 1080p at 30 frames per second. Garmin has focused on new software options for the Dashcams, with the video quality remaining the same as the previous iteration.
Garmin has released their new Dashcam models, the Dash Cam 47, 57 and 67W.