Things that I liked about the Camera



First of all, the name is a bit of a misnomer. In my opinion they should find another name for this unit. The reason is that is does actually have a flash. Call it the Better Flash or something like that. What I am talking about is that the camera uses a 3.0 megapixel camera during the daytime that takes pretty good pictures. This level of resolution is pretty sufficient, even if you want to blow up the photos or crop them. Not many people do blow up their photos from their field cameras anyway, but if you did it will be possible with most shots from this camera. When the camera takes pictures at night it switches over to a 1.3 megapixel camera that uses an infrared flash. This flash is a great advantage, as it will not scare away the animals that you are trying to capture on the camera. The quality of the pictures that are taken at night are pretty decent, they will be good enough for you to see what you need to. Flash range is thirty feet, which is not bad for most uses. The camera will take both daytime and nighttime video clips, although the quality is just fair. If you are like me, you won't find much use for video clips anyway; they just take up the memory on the SD card and don't give much more information.

The trigger time on a trail camera is very important. If you have a trigger time that it too slow you will either get a less-than-ideal angle of the animal or you might have the animal move right out of the picture if it is moving quickly. The trigger speed on this camera is very fast; faster than anything I have used in fact. I would say that it is under a second. No lost pictures due to slow trigger speed with this unit.

Using the camera is fairly easy. The LCD and keypad operation can be learned quickly and are intuitive. There are enough options to give you some versatility; you can change the delays from one minute to sixty minutes, and you can use the Theft stop password protection to keep your camera's information safe.

Things that I would change about the Camera

This is a big unit. It comes in at over three pounds and the dimensions are pretty large. It is about 10 inches by 7 inches by 3 ½ inches. This doesn't affect its performance in any way of course, but it could be a little smaller. Some of the security offered by the infrared flash (other hunters in the area won't see the flash) is offset by the fact that you have this monster hanging from a tree. Other than that it is pretty functional and worth a look.