the vanishing turtles mystery solved.
The camera is very well designed and has many features.
First thing to know that this is just the camera only. It requires batteries (not included) and an SD memory card (not included) to get started. Also, one might need to buy the tree mounting brackets, and if wanted, the security box. The mounting brackets make it so the camera can be placed in whatever location or position one desires, and the security box is to make sure no one walking thru the woods happens to come across your camera and decide to take it.
So keep in mind before you begin there are a few items you need and/or might want to get to be able to use this camera to its fullest potential.
A friend of mine who's wife is a Vet Tech takes home animals that have been abandoned or are ill and cares for them instead of having them put down. The house is full of cats, dogs, birds, and other assorted house pets. Also she rescues turtles. She is a professional and cares for them medically, keeps them...
Triggers too slowly
I've had this camera for about two months now, and I use it mostly in video mode. I have it trained on my front porch as both a wildlife camera and a security camera. The video quality during daytime is very good, but at night it is totally washed out. It can't seem to get the exposure correct at night.... and it might be complicated by the large white stone wall that is the front of my house...but still, the pics at night are useless.
My other complaint is that the trigger mechanism isn't sensitive enough and the camera is very slow to activate the video. I've had people arrive at my front door and make it inside the house before the video starts recording. I get the rear end of most of the deer that wander through, or nothing at all, because it has already moved out of the frame before the video starts.
It is also very difficult to set the field of view for the camera since there is no viewfinder or display to look at. You just have to guess at where it is pointed...
Almost perfect
I have to admit that this is my first trail camera purchase so I have nothing to really compare it to. I would have rated it higher but there are some things that could be designed better.
Also the picture is slightly different than what I recieved but I like it better. The "Bushnell HD" is not black on my unit but camo which I was going to live with but it seemed to defeat the purpose of the camo so I am pleased with that.
First the stand off on the bottom back of the unit should have some adjustability. This could be easily done with a locking screw in manufacturing. The result is that it is very hard to find a tree at the recommended size that does not taper in some way so the camera has a tendency to point up. That with the strap system that makes it very hard to place the camera with out a lot of fiddling. My first full day I ended up catching the backs of deer when they were about 15 yards away.
Second they should really have the loops where you...
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