Garmin Dash Cam 20 review: It’s compact, it’s convenient, and it costs a little more - hinesableatifes69

At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

Compact profile
Integrated Global Positioning System
Easy to use

Cons

Pricey for the features

Our Verdict

The Garmin Scare off Cam 20 is the simplest and easiest-to-purpose GPS flair cam in our roundup. Lul, it's hard to free the cost for what you get.

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Though it's pricey for a fundamental-faced unit, straight extraordinary with GPS, the Dash Cam 20 is the easiest to use of the dash cams we've reviewed. Four buttons connected the front bottom of the whole let you save the current transcription, bring on a snapshot, access the settings, and replay a previous recording. The button functions are also named out nicely along the display.

garmin dash cam 20 day — The Garmin Dash Cam 20 is very easy to exercise, but its paltry 90-degree field of view means you could miss sideswipers.

The Scoot Cam River 20 attaches to its suction cup backing via a pressure-fit ball joint. Information technology takes significant force to marry the two, enough that I was a bit worried about breaking it. However, once joined, there are no worries about its coming apart. The suction cup is also reassuringly strong. Whoever configured this flair cam has some true-world experience—Garmin, ya' think back?

The quality of the Dash Cam River 20's recordings, both day and night, looked good. The Nox video surprised me, because viewed while being captured, it appeared overly tenebrific.

garmin dash cam 20 night — At night, the Garmin Dash Cam 20's mental imagery looks dark when viewed live, but it appears brighter when viewed later as an image file in.

The entirely thing to be aware of with the Dash Cam 20 is that it has only a 90-degree area of view. While this eliminates most of the fish-eye distortion that you get with other cams, it doesn't gimmick every bit much of the approach of the fomite that sideswipes you. My only other complaint is that bundling a simple 4GB microSD card seems skimpy on Garmin's part, given the price mark down.

The Dash Cam 20 is simple, effective, to the point, and rugged. I liked IT a fate, though not as much as its significantly more expensive cousin, the Nuvicam LMTHD.

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