It takes decent pictures. the main drawback is the slow trigger time. wont work well on a trail unless you point it up the trail to give it enough time to trigger. About 3 seconds. Works well over food or scrapes though. I like mine. I would suggest getting the solar panel to keep the battery charged and like suggested a 128 mb sd card. They are $18 at wallyworld. There is better but for the money its a decent camera, and if it gets stolen your not out $400