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oliver power

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Would like to get one , but no Nothing about them. Would appreciate any , and all input/comments. Here are a few thoughts off the top of my head; Make and model , Film/digita , flash/infrared , pixels , replaceable batteries/internal battery , any other features/functions , etc.. Thanks
 
If you have the cash, get a digital... Film requires that you develop it, and you"re going to find a lot of missed shots, that you"ll be paying for. With a digital you can delete all but the best ones, free of charge!

I would like to get one, but I"m afraid the first tresspasser on the place will come by, and carry it off.
 
1. Digital
2. 4 or 5 megapixels is enough, but everyone is pixel happy so you will probably get 8 or 9.
3. some digital zoom. 3 or 4 power at least..I like the 10 power for wild life.
4. Get one wirh common AA bateries so if you run out any store will do.
. Lots more, that depends on what you will do with it.
I love my Olympus SP560 UZ 18 power, but it is large and hevy.
 
I think a few of the folks thought you were talking about a regular camera, not a game cam.
I have three of the cheaper ones and they work OK. 2-4 megapixals is all you need. even the $99 ones have the capacity to use flash on or off. They will also take three shot bursts, and you can also set the amount of time you want to pass before it takes another set of photos. I generally set mine to take a three shot burst, then wait 3 or 4 minutes. I do not have a reader, so I take the SD card home and plug it into the home computer. A reader would be nice as you could view the photos out in the field. I am thinking about getting one with infrared capabilities, not to put out in the woods, but rather as a security camera for my farm shop. Had some vandalism problems there a while back. The flash would alert the crook that he had been caught. I also dont want to put a $250 camera out in the woods to be stolen.

Sorry for the long post.

Gene
 
I have a Cabellas Moultree model that is a couple years old. It works OK. I think the biggest consideration should be trigger speed. Mine gets blank pictures all the time. You have to have it pointed up or down the trail to get a pic. If something walks in front of it at a 90 deg. angle you get nothing. I have seen adds for the Cuddeback Capture IR, it is Infra red and has an instant trigger. I leave mine out for a month at a time and then bring it in to look at the pics and charge the battery. Ohh, definitely go digital as I mentioned above, usually half of your pictures will have nothing on them. Good Luck.
 
I have a Cabellas Moultree model that is a couple years old. It works OK. I think the biggest consideration should be trigger speed. Mine gets blank pictures all the time. You have to have it pointed up or down the trail to get a pic. If something walks in front of it at a 90 deg. angle you get nothing. I have seen adds for the Cuddeback Capture IR, it is Infra red and has an instant trigger. I leave mine out for a month at a time and then bring it in to look at the pics and charge the battery. Ohh, definitely go digital as I mentioned above, usually half of your pictures will have nothing on them. Good Luck.
 
A couple of kids put one up by deer trails on my place a couple of years ago.

I didn't think of it soon enough, or I'd have rented a gorilla suit and pranced around in front of it.

Those kids would have filled their pants when they checked the pics.
 
Watch where you put it. I had a friend who put one out in the woods and the cows found it.



I would like to get one that has no flash, so I could use it for burglars.
 
We have a Kodak Z710 and it takes nice sharp pics.
Get a memory card that's been mentioned and you can store a lot of pics and easy to download. the pics. Hal
Z710_FL_250x200.jpg
 
Lol, I think you would be hard-pressed to find a trail cam that uses actual film. I've never seen one advertised. It's all about digital now.

We have a Moultree and it does just fine. I do think spending more than $200 on a trail cam would be a waste of money.
 
That's a great idea I am thinking of getting one for Xmas tree stand to keep people from stealing trees at night. gees for $15 you would think they would pay rather than go to jail for theft.
Walt
 
i have 2 that use 35mm film. got a couple pics of racoons raiding the bird feeder and a whole bunch of pics of some kind of yeti looking thing (funny, looked just like me) checking the camera to see if it works. i want go get a digital one now, seen some at gander mountain for about 100 dollars. i put it on my christmas want list. proolly get socks and drawers agin this year!!!
 
I use Moultrie Outfitter Cams, 5.0 Mp. You can install SD cards in it. I put an SD card in it, and when I go to check the cam, I take another card, switch them, and bring the picture card home. View on home PC, delete the ones I don't want, download the good one into My Photos. Card is then ready to go back to replace card in use in camera.
Besides 7 different bucks, this fall, I got coons, a fox, one of my setters, and two different poachers hunting pheasants.
These take about 6 D batteries and hold up a long time. They won't work well under 32 degrees.
Flash is limited to about 25 feet at night. They are IR activated.
Cost 100 bucks at Cabela's when on sale. Don't buy anything cheaper. I took three others that were less money back.They wouldn't even initialize correctly.

Gordo
 
A buddy on our fire department is real big on whitetail deer, and even bigger on whitetail stories. He can count the points on a deer ten miles away and come up with at least twelve.

If we all had to walk that far nowdays to pull a stunt we probably would die of a heart attact.

For over a coule weeks he had a very large buck taking his picture. The troubles is he never got to see anything but the big rack. Twice the big buck knocked the camera off it's perch even.

So that was a good one,and guys will be guys so we decided he deserved better. It wasn't long and a moose was knocking his camera over, JUST LIKE THE BIG BUCK DEER. He showed everyone. There has only been one moose spotted in our part of the world in sixty years. Yet he had pictures of the moose rack to prove he wasn't story tellin.

Us pranksters weren't smart enough to realize that after the first snow, mooses don't leave human tracks.

Fire chief suggested we spend that much time down at the fire station training and fixing as a better option for our idle time.
 
I have 3 Wildview ? $49 bucks at Menards , but Gander and Cabela's sell them too. I had some 35 mm film types , but phased them out, too much $$$ on film developing costs . The ones i have now take SD cards, flash or no flash, burst or short movie clip,,like i say ,$49,,they do all I ask . Have couple at cabin , got one pointed at outhouse, found out where all the T.Paper was going , some local guys were using our outhouse . It's always fun to check out new pics ,,never know what you will find on them !
 
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