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I'd like to get a remote camera to leave outside to photograph and video wildlife in my garden. Does anyone use one that they can recommend?
Not sure what I'm looking for but would like something that captures a good image, is waterproof and will last.
2 things come to mind, how would you power it and what quality of picture are you wanting?
A complete curve ball but I have a 720p cctv setup that runs 4 cameras over Ethernet cables upto 25m long. The footage is realtime recorded for upto 30 days and it's nighttime light can see for about 10m clearly. Cost about 175gbp. That sort of thing would allow multicam and 24hr capture?
Not that Ive set it up but it says it can do motion detection to trigger recording and also send emails / notifications about being triggered and also be logged into from anywhere on the Internet ..
Not quite what you are looking for, but I bought a Garmin Virb basic model (£75). It has a time lapse function and I have used it to take some photos of the bird table and swallows coming in and out of the nest. It seems to be waterproof and picture quality is OK.
I've got a promos truth cam 35. I won't recommended it as it's ancient and newer stuff is undoubtedly better, but when it comes to batteries it uses 4 d-cells which last pretty much forever (many months at least).
We've got a ltl acorn something or other (5210 maybe) and have used it to monitor wildlife in some woodland. That includes badgers, foxes, deer and we had it on a tawny owl nest in spring. Ours is 5mp and runs for a month or two off 4 aa cells, and you can put another 4 into the mount to extend that if you want. The only gripes are that it doesn't handle twilight too well so some shots are over exposed, and the lag between detection and triggering the shot means we got a lot of the rear end of our owls. Picture quality is OK but not super fine HD, though given it only cost 90 quid or so I'm happy with it.
Got an LTL Acorn 5310 here.
Image quality is not bad. It gives 12MP images, though I think that is a bit exaggerated, its not really that sharp, especially in the dark. Sometimes night images are overexposed, this depends on how it is positioned. I find its best about 1m off the ground, pointing just below horizontal.
Takes up to 8 AA batteries - I use Eneloop rechargeables, which last about a month or so. Though depends on the settings, and what you are recording - night time video will drain the batteries a lot faster.
Had it for a year or two now. Recently it seems to have stopped recording video. Not sure its something in the settings, or is it broken. Tempted to try a Bushnell camera, though they are a bit more expensive.
Great for seeing what wildlife I get in the garden anyway - often badgers, pine martens, squirrels, and a few deer, plus the neighbours dogs and cats.
Have a look at Naturespy, their website is useful for comparing models: https://shop.naturespy.org/product-category/camera-traps/
Thanks folks. It needs to be battery powered as it will be about 75m from the nearest socket.
I've got a set behind my compost area which is close to my chicken coop and I'm curious whether it's badger or fox. I have signs of both in the garden and am intrigued as to what else goes bump in the night here 🙂
I've got something similar to this:
http://www.besttrailcameras.net/moultrie-m-990i-10mp-no-glow-infrared-mini-game-camera-review/
Batteries (8aa) last months. Waterproof, black and white at night, colour in day. Loads of fun.
aldi had some a while back iirc they normally reduce them after a while if they don'ts sell