Game Trail Camera-Review.

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Re: Game Trail Camera-Review.

Post by YoungBuck » 26 Mar 2018, 9:54 pm

Stix wrote:Hey YB...did you get the cat...?

Nope - never saw it again after I got it on the cam.
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Re: Game Trail Camera-Review.

Post by Rod_outbak » 27 Mar 2018, 4:57 am

Oldbloke, that first image you posted (with the roos in it), looks like the IR filter hasnt retracted for daylight photos. One of our Leupold cameras used to do the same; it made the daylight photos have a pink tinge to them. When I've opened a few cameras up, there is a flip-over IR filter that is supposed to retract for daylight images.

Our most common stand-alone camera has been the Scoutguard SG550V8-HD, but I see there is a replacement for it that looks a bit better:
http://outdoorcameras.com.au/56/swift-3 ... -lens.html

At $300, I'm tempted to pick up a couple more. Last time I bought any cameras(~2014), they were over $350 each.

We usually get fairly clear B&W images out to roughly 15 metres from the camera with these Scoutguards.
This dog would have been roughly 7 metres distant?

About the only complaint was the IR LED's were visible(some animals saw them), but it seems that Swift 3C uses true blacklight flash.

Interestingly, we havent found that more expensive has bought us better cameras and/or images. Some of the more expensive cameras we've tried have turned out to be really slow to trigger, are really hard on batteries, or badly unreliable. One mdoel could even be located by the white noise it transmitted to a roo-shooters UHF radio!
These Scoutguards were one of the cheapest we've used, and they have proven to be about the best value for money.

Cheers,

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Re: Game Trail Camera-Review.

Post by Oldbloke » 13 May 2018, 9:20 am

Just a follow up.
Camera did not seem to take night time images beyond about 4 meters and daytime images had a pink ting.
So returned for a refund. Another member purchased two and they would not trigger/work at all.

Buy a better camera.
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Re: Game Trail Camera-Review.

Post by juststarting » 13 May 2018, 2:27 pm

My cameras arrived, but I must admit, they are still in boxes, lol. A little short on time :/
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Re: Game Trail Camera-Review.

Post by Oldbloke » 28 Jun 2018, 8:00 pm

So I replaced my trail camera with one of these.

https://m.ebay.com.au/itm/HT001-HD-12MP ... SwRE5aeCMI

On another thread one of the members bought one and it seemed OK so I bought one too. It arrived the other day and I've given it a bit of a test. The daytime pics are pretty good and the night time a big improvement on the other. Here are some samples. The IR are 18 and 12 paces in distance. The day time is a weeell close up He He........

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Re: Game Trail Camera-Review.

Post by RoginaJack » 29 Jun 2018, 2:53 pm

:lol: :lol: :clap: and I thought I was the only one that could take arse shots :D
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Re: Game Trail Camera-Review.

Post by bigpete » 29 Jun 2018, 4:53 pm

Hmm,I'm now enthused to get mine out again
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