G'day,
I have purchased three trail cameras and still have two helping me keep tabs on who's visiting my bait sites. The two doing good service are:
1.
Primos Little Mug Shot selling in Ballarat [Rehfisch's gun shop] ''on special'' for $149.00. It's basic and idiot proof. The pictures are satisfactory for seeing what's coming around for hunting purposes. The chassis seems quite solid. I've attached a sample photo. Here's a US ad:
https://www.primos.com/primos-hunting/t ... c-92/p-118The [red] flash of this camera is visible; some people believe this may scare off animals, but in the case of the many foxes [and the odd hare] on my property it seems to have had no negative effect. This is likely because the animals associated the flash positively with the food they were getting near the camera.
2.
Kogan:
https://www.kogan.com/au/buy/kogan-25mp ... il-camera/. This is more sophisticated, solid and works well. [See much sharper photo set at 14mp compared to the Primos 5 mp.] It's now cheaper than when I bought it too - now at $129.00. [It's the photo labelled
Boly.] It is also possible to load animal calls onto the camera and set when they are play. I haven't tried that yet - it's a bit above my technical paygrade and I have an Icotec caller anyway.
The one camera I bought and is now gone [terminally!] was a wide angle camera made by
Little Acorn. Similar features to the Kogan, but flimsy construction of the chassis and a poorly designed switch which was dodgy from the start and failed after three weeks. Apparently failure of the switch is a common issue. Access to the switch was via a very light little trap door on the bottom. The hinge was very fragile and broke easily. Junk!!!
I would certainly buy another Kogan camera. It's a beaut!
As for battery life, it seems pretty good so far; I haven't had any failures yet, but do change them at about 3 weeks to be certain. The Kogan uses 4 or 8 AAs, while the Primos uses 6 AAs. I'm using NiMH rechargeables.
Jim