![]() ![]() I have heard of everything from trail cameras, to entire stands being stolen. If a camera is stolen, do we want to lose a $100+ camera, or do we want to lose a $30 camera? Don’t say it does not happen either. Let’s be honest about another topic, and that is trail camera theft. The camera may be set out a month or so before hunting season, then put out right before hunting season. Let’s be honest, most hunters are going to use their trail camera two, maybe three months out of the year. It seemed as if the camera was taking pictures when the wind blew. One problem with the camera, it took a lot of pictures of nothing. Then again, how many people pay attention to the temperature on the pictures? Pictures lack a temperature stamp that most higher end cameras have on them. ![]() For $30 I feel the camera took more than acceptable pictures. Daytime pictures were acceptable for the price of the camera, but night time were not as clear, which is to be expected. Original pictures were taken at 8 megapixel, which measured 3264 x 2448, and ranged in size from 800kb to 1.80 mb. Hopefully the coyote is not heading to a chicken house. Over the course of the testing pictures of deer, my dogs, and a coyote were taken. The Tasco trail camera was placed near a wildlife feeder, left for several days, checked, moved back a little bit away from the feeder, then left out for several more days. While we are discussing one certain camera, I feel it is representative of low cost game cameras in general. ![]() For over a decade I have used numerous cheap / low cost trail cameras with similar results. Some readers may think this is a small sampling size of just one camera. So what kind of quality could someone expect from a $30 trail camera? The answer may be surprising.įor this project a Tasco 8MP game camera was purchased from a local big box outlet store for around $30, tax included. One item that often sparks interest are the low cost trail cameras. Starting around September or so, sometimes October, big box outlet stores start getting their hunting gear in. If someone is only going to use a product a couple of times a year, why spend a lot of money on it? When it comes to trail cameras, users seem to be divided into two categories – Those who use trail cameras all year long, and those who use their cameras a few times a year.
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