What is the Differences Between Wide-Angle Cameras and Fish-Eye Cameras?

Reversing is an inevitable operation in daily public transportation. Nowadays, HD reversing cameras installed on rearview mirrors intuitively present real-time road conditions, reducing accident rates by not solely relying on side mirrors to estimate distances between the rear and obstacles. With the market's evolution, cameras offer two functionalities: wide-angle and fish-eye.

In a wide-angle backup camera, the "wide-angle" refers to the fan-shaped angle from the bottom to the top, centered around the camera lens. This angle represents the illumination range. Generally, the wider the angle of the HD wide-angle camera, the larger the visual range, but the effective visual range might be smaller.

The term "HD fish-eye car reversing camera" is a way people commonly refer to it, but in reality, it is a wide-angle camera! To achieve a broader vision, its front lens has a short diameter that protrudes from the front of the lens. The fish-eye, or wide-angle, night vision back view camera, incorporates image processing technology chips that modify spherical images and surfaces, outputting a normal flat image suitable for human eyes. Typically, the monitoring effect covers 180°to 360°.