Backing camera on screen image question
 

I have a 2012 F250 with a factory backing camera where the image appears in the rearview mirror. I installed a Kenwood double din head unit a while ago and noticed the image that appears on screen isn't as "crisp" as I'd like it to be. The image in the mirror screen is good. I'm wondering if by making the image larger on my head unit that it's not distorting and I need to buy a different camera?

What say the brain trust?

My guess is that the camera is designed for the (probably) low resolution display in the mirror. When viewed on a tiny low res screen, it probably looks fine, but then viewed "blown up" on a larger high res screen looks bad.

My guess is that yes, a better camera would help.

I'm going to look into the screen resolution of my Kenwood head unit and see if I can find one to match it. I'm thinking you're right Steve.

Probably not related, but I've read differences in refresh rate/Hz cause screen tearing.

Is the "lens" clean? My picture looks like hell if it's dirty back there.

Yeah it's clean.

Head unit is a Kenwood DDX9705S Screen specs below
Picture size 6.95 inches(diagonal) wide
W x H 156.6 mm x 81.6 mm , 6-3/16 x 3-3/16 inch
Display system TN LCD panel
Drive system TFT active matrix system
Number of pixels 1,152,000
800H x 480V x RGB
Effective pixels 99.99%
Pixel arrangement RGB striped arrangement
Back lighting LED