RE: Scout Guard SG 550. Next Best Camera?
Guys, this should answer some of your questions
The firmware v2.0 is designed to:
1. Fix the potential problems:
a. Battery draining
b. Pre-shut down resulting in few pictures
c. Inconsistent performance over time (the late stage) such as longer trigger time and lower sensitivity.
2. Improve the image and video processing
a. Speed up the image processing and shorten the picture interval time in the multiple shot mode (e.g. 5M pictures, the picture interval time drops from 6-7s to 3-4s)
b. Decrease the number of bad pictures (such as red or black tinted ones)
c. Add video stabilization, decrease the number of bad videos.
I haven't noticed any noises when the cam goes from daylight to night, but not certain I've been around when it happens. I'll try to do some testing to see. Give me a couple days and I'll try to report back on it.
If you can write to an sd card in the reader on your printer then you can use it. It's a simple image that is written to the sd card then the camera downloads the image. It's really simple to do.
As for the blue light, I don't know. Mine hasn't gotten that low even after over 2000 pics and 180 videos.
If you guys have any more questions, let me know and I'll do what I can to answer them. The cameras are working great for me and so far I've only had 2 minor complaints from about 30 sold. 1 was battery drain and the new download has fixed it, the other just popped up friand I'll be contacting HCO about it monday. The guy is having problems with a sandisc card, but other cards work fine. I think it might be a bad card but not sure.
I think these are the best cameras on the market especially for the money. I'm still hearing problems from the new cudde's as well as the new moultrie's. I just think they are hard to beat right now and the manufacturer is steadily making them better.