Review: Eachine C800T camera
Eachine recently released C800T camera. This is the interesting camera with declared 16:9 aspect ration and CCD image sensor. I think this camera deserves a detailed review.
Camera is packed nicely in foam inside the carton box. Carton box resembles the RunCam packaging.
Package contains camera, aluminium camera bracket, 4 pcs of M2 mounting screws and?3 wire 1.25mm “JST” cable. No user manual or any specs sheet, even no naming of the camera on the box.
Camera is fully enclosed in the metalic case. This adds more weight, but also helps to eliminate RF noise from camera electronics.
There is OSD control joystick on the back of the C800T camera.
Large lens with focal length of 2.5mm?and a field of view about 150°.
Aluminium mounting bracket is upplied with this camera.
Side by side comparison with classic HS1177?
Camera lens is M12 size, fixed with a spring instead of the ring as on HS1177.
Camera weights 18.6g, more than declared 15g in specification
Weight with bracket is 20g.
Camera width is 26.9
While classic HS1177 style camera width is 28mm. So there will be a gap between standart camera mount and camera case. (see below)
Because of the non standart dimensions there is a gap of about 2mm between the camera and mounting
Camera can be easily disassembled by unscrewing two screws on the back. On the front side of the PCB we see wide?960H sensor (16:9 format).
On the back side of the PCB you’ll find?FH8536E main video processing IC. Now the moment of the truth – is it CCD or CMOS camera? According to the FH8536E?chip datasheet, it is designed to work with CMOS image sensors. So this camera has CMOS sensor, not the CCD as stated in the product specifications!
OSD
Camera has built-in joystic for configuration via OSD. Joystick control directions are weird – to go up you need to push down-left, to go down – push down-right. Very confusing.
Below is the OSD settings video. Camera by default comes in chinees language. Watch the video if you are not sure how to change it to english language.
[To do: actual flight footage.]
Listed @Banggood: https://www.banggood.com/Eachine-C800T-12_7-CCD-800TVL-2_5mm-Camera-with-OSD-Button-DC5V-15V-NTSC-PAL-Swtichable-p-1171324.html
Declared specifications:
| Product manual | |
| Model | FPV cameras |
| Lmage Sensor | 1/2.7″micron CCD ?Four unity (this is incorrect, should be CMOS) |
| Horizotal Resoulution | D1 960H |
| Lens | 2.5mm, FOV 150 °, M12 |
| Video formats | PAL/NTSC ?(OSD Internal adjustable) |
| Signal to noise ratio | >60Db(AGC OFF) |
| Electronic shutter | PAL: 1/50-100.000, NTSC:1/60-100,000 |
| Ratio | 16:9 |
| Automatic gain control | YES |
| Backlight compensation | YES |
| Intensity of illumination | 0.001Lux/1.2F |
| Automatic gain control | adjustable |
| Backlight compensation | adjustable |
| Power | DC5V-15V |
| Net weight | 15g |
| Dimensions | 25mm*25mm |
| ????????????????????????????????????OSD ???????????????????????????????????????? | |
| Exposure | Electronic shutter/automatic gain control/brightness/digital wide dynamic |
| Backlight model | Close/backlight compensation/light inhibition |
| The white balance | Automatic tracking the white balance |
| Day and night mode | Internal auto/color/black and white mode |
| Video Settings | contrast/ sharpness / saturation /?Digital noise reduction?/ Digital wide dynamic |
| language | Chinese/English/German/Italian/Russian |
| Restore the factory Settings | OK |
| Save the exit | OK |
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Hi!
Do you have any idea how to connect this camera? No instructions man!!!
Also because it states it can handle max 15v. Does this mean no 4s lipo?
Camera comes with 3 pin servo plug. Just connect yellow wire to the video signal inpot on TX, red to +5V source and black to the ground. I recommend to use +5V pover source. Yeah, the voltage range 5-15V is not enough for 4S battery, do not connect to the battery directly.
Thank you so much for a quick response!
The black wire to the ground.. is this to the vtx or lipo? Sorry a lil bit of a noob ??
Usually you connect GND wire the device, which provide +5V power for the camera. It can be VTX, PDB, FC. Any ground plane fits. BUT! If you experience interference lines (diagonal, horizontal) then you could try to connect GND wire as closer to the lipo battery leads as possible. But even in this case do not connect camera red wire (+) to the lipo directly, only black ground wire (GND).
Thank you so much!
I finally got it working ??
You are the man!
My next problem is how do you get the osd to work? :’D
Really sucks that it ships with no instructions
OSD joystick is 5-way. Means you can move it into 4 directions + press down. To enter into settings OSD, you need to press down the OSD joystick ?? then navigate to the language settings and set the English language. See video of OSD example in the review.