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Protect it from people and bears or you are just going to have to replace it.
I not only tested my Trail Cam at home but also tested it in the woods. I took my digital camera along when I put up the trail cam. I then proceeded tested the trail cam on the area where I wanted to focus on and then reviewed the pic's on the sd card in my small handheld camera.
Height and angle is everything. keeping it mounted a bit high and pointed slightly down will keep it out of their eyes and your pictures from looking like
I have a bushnell 5mp and a cuddeback ir. The bushnell is fine except for the delay on the shutter. The fastest it can be set is 5 seconds. That is fine over bait or pointing directly down a trail. There are still empty photos over bait. Now the cuddeback ir........................ Flawless!
Quote from: jdurham on January 14, 2012, 08:14:47 AMI have a bushnell 5mp and a cuddeback ir. The bushnell is fine except for the delay on the shutter. The fastest it can be set is 5 seconds. That is fine over bait or pointing directly down a trail. There are still empty photos over bait. Now the cuddeback ir........................ Flawless!You're talking about two different things here. The "delay on the shutter" you speak of is what they normally refer to as "trigger speed". Which is the time it takes for the camera to take a picture after the sensor detects movement. Trigger speed is not adjustable. It is what it is, and of course, the faster the better. I'm not sure which Bushnell you have, but I believe the trigger speed should be somewhere around 1 1/2 seconds.
Quote from: bobcat on January 14, 2012, 08:35:57 AMQuote from: jdurham on January 14, 2012, 08:14:47 AMI have a bushnell 5mp and a cuddeback ir. The bushnell is fine except for the delay on the shutter. The fastest it can be set is 5 seconds. That is fine over bait or pointing directly down a trail. There are still empty photos over bait. Now the cuddeback ir........................ Flawless!You're talking about two different things here. The "delay on the shutter" you speak of is what they normally refer to as "trigger speed". Which is the time it takes for the camera to take a picture after the sensor detects movement. Trigger speed is not adjustable. It is what it is, and of course, the faster the better. I'm not sure which Bushnell you have, but I believe the trigger speed should be somewhere around 1 1/2 seconds.The delay after it senses motion. That is what I put was the delay on the shutter or trigger as you call it. Not sure why but the bushnell can be set for up to minutes delay. Don't know why you would want that high of a delay???
Trigger speed is defined as the amount of time that elapses between when a camera first detects motion, until it captures a photo of what caused that motion. A trail camera’s effectiveness is determined by several test criteria, however, if you had to pick just one as the most important, it would definitely be “Trigger Speed”. Plain and simple, if your scouting camera doesn’t have a quick trigger, you’re going to get numerous photos with just half an animal and many blank photos with no animal at all. Trigger speeds vary from a lethargic 6 seconds to a lightning fast 1/5th of a second. The best performing game cameras have speeds of 0.5 seconds or less. We test trigger speed with our proprietary, computer controlled testing device – The Triggernator. Most other testing facilities simply wave their hand in front of a camera and haphazardly calculate the time which elapses until a photo is snapped. The Triggernator swings a heat source across the face of the test camera, triggering a stopwatch at the precise instant the heat source bisects the camera’s PIR detection sensor. A photo is captured, revealing the test camera’s trigger time accurate to 4/1000th of a second. The consistency is incredible.
Recovery time is defined as the minimum amount of time required, for a camera to take the second triggered picture. Recovery times vary anywhere from as little as 0.5 seconds to a full 60 seconds. Being limited to only 1 picture every 60 seconds, produces some serious gaps in your scouting capabilities. Imagine the common scenario of a buck chasing a doe. The doe triggers the camera and if the buck passes in the next 60 seconds, he does so undetected. We prefer recovery times of 1 second or less. Scouting cameras with quick recovery times and fast triggers never miss any activity and rarely produce empty frames, if ever. As a result, quick recovering cameras capture multiple images of every animal which visits the camera site. Recovery time is measured by producing continuous motion in front of the camera and calculating the elapsed time between triggered photos. Note: Recovery time can vary based on user programmed resolution. Larger mpxl pictures use more storage space and require additional time to write to memory. This usually results in a proportional increase in recovery time. Also, recovery time is not to be confused with "burst mode." Burst mode takes a rapid succession of pictures regardless of an animal being present or not.
