Thats alright....the trail camera's can be pretty intimidating at times especialy when Your first starting out!
All the trail camera's I've dealt with have to be set up when You first put batteries in them...most I've ever seen have to have the time and date set,then You have to either set it to take pictures or video if they have that feature...I can't think of any camera that will take pictures and videos...but there is a few exceptions out there come to think of it!My Moultrie I-60 can be set to video...so when an animal is detected it will take a 15-30 or 45 second video,then it will take 1 picture after that so You can see the time,date,tempature and moon phase etc...!For the most part You have to set a trail camera to take pictures or video's...my Moultrie might be an exception to the rule since I don't have any other brands of trail camera's to compare.....but I do have 6 Moultries though!
I bought 2 new ones this year...the I-35 does alright but with its 4.0 megapixels I'm not happy at all with picture quality or the area coverage of the night-time IR pictures...I also bought a Moultrie D55-IR and it does very good at night with the IR pictures and day-time color pictures too,it is a 5.0 megapixel camera and cost me $119.99 but have been on sale for around $94.99 at different times which is a good buy and a good reliable camera.My best 2 camera's are the older Moultrie I-60 camera with 6.0 megapixels,a built-in viewer for looking at pictures out in the field...it takes some great color day-time pictures and nice IR night-time pictures.
To me the other trail camera's that are pretty good and afforable would be the Bushnell 8.0 Trophy Cam or the Bushnell 8.0 Bone Collector (Camo) camera,the Cuddeback Capture "Flash" Camera and in my opinion....the Cadillac of trail camera's would be the Recoynx Trail Camera's that cost over $400.00+ dollars!
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