OkBowhunter, I have a couple ofthe wildview 3.0's and it has been a good camera and has the external port for a rechargable battery (thats why I bought it). It has been good for me but several people on here have had problems with theirs. On our hunting land there is 9 of us and we have several different ones from cheapies to cuddeback's, the one that we are all in agreemant that is the best is the leaf river. It doesn't need the extra battery pack, it takes good night pic's, good day pic's.; The only problem is the built in viewing screen is too little to see, however I use my laptop, so not an issue in my case. This will be my next camera but the wildview has done the job good too. I will be going to my hunting land mid April and will post some pic's if ya want....