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TLDR: The Redtiger F77 is a powerful dual 4K dash cam with fast Wi-Fi, great build quality, and premium features, though it comes at a high price and could use a few thoughtful improvements.
The F77 is a flagship dash camera from Redtiger. It has a lot of premium features that tick many boxes when looking for a high-end dash camera. With 4K front and rear cameras, a wide touch-sensitive display, a Sony Stavis 2 sensor, fast Wi-Fi for saving recordings from its companion app, GPS tracking, voice control, and 128GB of eMMC internal memory that can also be expanded to up to 256GB, there’s a lot to like about the F77. So let’s take it for a spin and see if it lives up to its stellar specs.
What’s in the Box
In the box, you get paper instruction and quick start manuals, the front and rear cameras, a 12V adapter to power the front camera, and a long USB-C cable to power the rear camera. Also included are some cable management clips, two spare adhesive pads, three clear windscreen stickers, a prying tool, a USB-A to Type-C data cable, and a hardwire kit to connect the camera to a car’s fuse board for parking monitor use only.
Design and Build Quality
The F77 front-facing camera is a chunky block of technology, packed full of the latest and greatest features. Up front, there’s a single outward-facing lens that is connected to the Sony Stavis 2 IMX678 image sensor for crisp 4K video recordings at 30fps, or 2.5K at 60fps on the front camera feed only. On the front, there’s also a large block for microphone input, which gives the impression that it’s good at audio capture as well.
On the back, there is a 4-inch IPS touchscreen display that offers a clear view of the camera recordings and easy interactions for adjusting settings and watching back recordings directly on the camera body.
At the top are two USB-C power connection ports for the front and rear cameras, and underneath are four function buttons that can also be used alongside the touchscreen controls. To the right side, there is a TF card slot for extra storage up to 256GB or to offload video from its internal memory. Below this slot is a large red button used to toggle the camera’s different viewing modes. With a press and hold, it can also turn off the camera and adjust recordings when in playback mode.
Installation and Setup
Installation is a breeze thanks to its removable windscreen mount and windscreen stickers. It also comes with some replaceable adhesive pads should you need to remount either camera in another location in the future. I found the stickers to be quite large—so large that the film could impede the view of the camera lens if you mount the camera square on or to the right of the sticker surface. Cutting it in two or removing a quarter of the film would be my advice to avoid this scenario.
Once the front camera was mounted, I then channelled the rear cable through the car interior to the rear-facing camera on the internal side of the rear window. The rear camera is not waterproof, so it has to be mounted internally. Using my phone connected to the Redtiger companion app, I was able to position the camera more accurately and also flip its recording orientation in the camera’s comprehensive settings menu.
Real-World Performance
Once both cameras were connected and powered, it was time to put the camera through its paces in both day and nighttime conditions.
Overall, I found the F77 to perform very well, especially in daytime recording, both with the front and rear-facing cameras. At night, however, the rear camera suffers a little in terms of low-light detail and how it handles headlights and street lamp glare. I feel my tinted rear screen may have played a part in how its sensor handled this light. Still, its rear and front-facing cameras offer excellent quality, and if Redtiger offered a polarising lens cover, it would likely reduce some dashboard glare I was getting from my windscreen.
Its 4K footage was clean and sharp, with good details captured in both cameras during daylight hours. It has good natural colours and a wide contrast range that allows video to capture details very well. At low speed, I was able to read number plates from oncoming traffic from both cameras—even from vehicles passing away from me in the rear view. Increase the speed, though, and like most cameras, this becomes a little more difficult.
The rear camera, even with a 4K resolution, seems like it is getting less processing in its quality and suffers much more than what the front camera does. As a result, it struggles a little more to maintain detail. That said, its rear quality is leaps and bounds better than what most dash cameras come with, thanks to its higher resolution and the Sony IMX678 sensor bundled inside.
App Integration and Connectivity
Connecting to the camera over Wi-Fi with my phone was easy, and the speed of downloading 5-minute clips (at around 1GB each) was quick and painless. Files are first deposited in the app’s album area, and from there you can transfer them to a Camera Roll or share them via any app in the iOS share sheet.
Retailing for $269.99 from their store using my coupon code carplaylife, or from $256.28 on Amazon, this camera certainly is not cheap when compared to some alternative brand offerings. However, you are paying for a lot of tech and, most of all, performance. With an additional 4K capture at the rear, your front and rear recordings are uncompromised. Many dash cameras come with very poor, almost unworthy, quality rear cameras. This extra cost is justified by an additional 4K rear camera.
Its built-in internal memory saves you from buying extra TF cards, and its fast read/write speeds help capture 4K content at the best and most reliable speeds.
Areas for Improvement
Connecting to the camera over Wi-Fi is also improved over other brands, thanks to its fast Wi-Fi speeds. You can download 4K clips to your phone in seconds, not minutes. If you do this often, this alone will save a lot of time in video transfer.
That said, the F77 could benefit from a few adjustments to make it a truly perfect dash camera. The supplied USB-C cable could use a right-angle connector, or an elbowed adapter could have been included for those of us who can’t use the supplied 12V power cable.
Not all settings were available in its companion app. Using an app like this makes it easier to adjust and configure the camera’s operation to my liking, yet most of the richer controls were only adjustable from the camera’s display. The four buttons beneath the camera felt redundant when the 4-inch touchscreen was far more intuitive. Instead, these buttons could have been used as custom shortcuts or removed completely to reduce the overall cost.
With the size of its main camera, fitting an internal battery to allow for short parking monitor recordings would have been a valuable feature, avoiding the complex install of its hardwire kit.
With all that said, the Redtiger F77 is a premium dash camera that stands head and shoulders above any other camera I have tested. It’s just unfortunate that you have to dig deep to afford its high cost of ownership—or that a cheaper front-camera-only option isn’t offered.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – Brief overview
0:27 – Unboxing
1:21 – Features & design
3:49 – Powerup, interface & settings
7:17 – App connection
8:00 – Front camera installation
9:48 – App connection
10:32 – Rear camera installation
13:24 – Daylight recording
14:13 – Night recording
15:12 – Video quality impressions
17:06 – Companion app impressions
17:48 – My final impressions
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