Yeah, I can understand what you are saying. I have an older cam that sounds almost like a loud cap gun going off when it flashed to take a picture. I never really cared for that one so much. Not because of the picture quality but because of the noise that it made. To me photos are photos and you can see what they are just the same. I did purchase mine on sale so I have never paid the original asking price for them. I recently bought a spy point to set up this summer. I am not sure how it’s going to work but wanted to know when I have cows out back in my garden. It’s supposed to send pictures to my cellphone.? That feature will come in handy for that purpose..