Trail Camera

[Mags]

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This would be my sole purpose for getting a cell service camera. I'm rural and secluded enough that if someone came down the driveway when we weren't home, nobody would see anything. Having a cell service unit that gave immediate notification would at least let me know if/when someone was there. I put one of my chip cameras elevated on a tree and facing the house, which worked well, but you only get to see what it has observed when you pull the chip.

We also have a Ring camera. It will catch and give immediate notification of walkers and pull through traffic, but it's not real good at license plate clarity due to distance from the front door. For that I too have to pull the SDcard of the trailcam.

[Mags]

The Browning I have has pretty good night time resolution. This is a GIF created from one of the trailcam videos.

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[markiver54]

That would definitely satisfy me for nighttime quality.

[JEBar]

after being setup for 2 days I went out and brought our trail camera back into the house .... the good news is, it took 6 pictures .... whatever caused it to take the pictures could not be seen .... sorry, I have no clue how to save them to where I could post'um on the forum .... all settings were left at the original settings .... quality was OK but not as good as some I've seen posted in this thread .... they were also to small .... I've decided to switch it to video record and to place it where it will focus on our driveway .... that should result in much more recording .... next I need to figure out how to adjust the camera settings .... did find out that the solar panel kept the camera built in battery fully charged

[wvhills]

well i was / am a wildgame cameras user, mostly because of the battery life,,, from fall to mid spring, but it is harder for me to get to the cameras weekly to pull the cards;
I did some digging, Spy Point cameras have a cellular camera BUT also have a free plan of 100 pics per 30 days, repsonse is pretty quick to my phone, the batteries are doing ok,,, installed in oct. one is now at 54% and 1 is at 68% ;
i also have ordered a couple of "cell packs" that you can plug other cameras into thru the usb port...
we'll see, going to try the wildgame with the cell packs. attached are a couple pics dark and daylight..
should prob do a review on them and their cell packs..

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[JEBar]

UPDATE :

well, I'm happy to say, I'm on my way to figuring out how to use the trail camera .... its been slow because of my shortcomings, nothing negative with the camera itself .... basically, it took me a while to correlate the functions with the terminology .... we now have pictures that prove we do have deer moving through the woods behind our house .... we have 3 for sure (all does or at least none with visible antlers) .... sorry, no clue yet as to how to get the pictures out of the camera and into my computer where I can then post them .... the sound is good, in fact, better than I expected .... I'm still adjusting the settings trying to improve the picture quality .... so far this has been a slow process because there have been more nights that no pictures have been taken that there are that they have ..... in addition, my knowledge of what settings it takes to make the best pictures is very limited .....