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Offline finnman

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Best for the price????
« on: April 06, 2009, 10:33:53 AM »
I am in the market for my first trail cam!!! :IBCOOL:

I am not afraid to spend $250 or so, what are some of the best ones available for the price?

Experiance many times is the best gauge of a product!!!!!

Thanks guys!

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Re: Best for the price????
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2009, 02:25:46 PM »
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/product/standard-item.jsp?_DARGS=/cabelas/en/common/catalog/item-link.jsp_A&_DAV=MainCatcat20712-cat601139-cat20098&id=0057185418545a&navCount=1&podId=0057185&parentId=cat20098&masterpathid=&navAction=push&catalogCode=IK&rid=&parentType=index&indexId=cat601233&hasJS=true

Is what I use.  You can usually get an even better deal on them through catalogs.  Five megapixels is great, IR rather than flash, photo or video, price. . . . It's got the goods I look for.

I have three of them, and a friend has a couple too.  The only bad things we've seen with them are a slower trigger speed, so you have to set it up facing down a trail versus perpendicular to it; otherwise you'll get some 'back half' pictures if the animal is moving fast. 

Also, the camera make's a click sound when it uses the IR flash.  It might not be silent but I'd rather it click than to use flash and light up the place. lol

While I'd be pissed if a camera was stolen or destroyed by a bear, I'd rather it be a $100-140 Stealth Cam than a $300 Cudde.

I attached a couple daytime pictures from over here in Idaho, and an IR picture from back home on the west side.

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Re: Best for the price????
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2009, 05:55:36 PM »
No matter what cam you get put a Bear Safe on it!!! Her is one for a Cuddebac Capture they also make one for a Moultrie I40 Either camera with the safe and a lock and you would be right at $250.00 The come in brown but I rattle can the safe and locks black. I have had bears slime them but no damage toth camera well worth it!!!

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/common/search/search-results1.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&hasJS=true&_D%3AhasJS=+&sort=all&QueryText=Bear+Safe+&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form23&Go.x=21&Go.y=7


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Re: Best for the price????
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2009, 08:39:16 PM »
When the highest Meg camera you can buy is 5 meg. I will chose a homebrew starting at 7 meg. these camera's start at 7 and can go to a 12 meg camera. I'm into these way less than half the price of a cuddleback.
« Last Edit: April 07, 2009, 07:27:27 PM by Ridgeratt »

 


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