Well, the first day with the new Stealth Cam DIGRC-XTR camera was good, but, since then, it seems to keep going down hill.

I checked the camera today and noticed that there were no pictures. I walked over to the feeder and there were fresh deer tracks. This made me curious, so I did was ILL-Cornfed did and I walked past the camera. I walked past at about 5 yards and the camera snapped a picture, too bad I was entirely out of the way! I tried it again, and yet again, the camera didn't snap a picture until I was out of the picture.

Another thing I noticed is that the camera was taking forever to load. Whenever I turned the unit on, it would take about 30-45 seconds for the unit to load up (and the owners manual says that it should load in 5 seconds). This is after just two days, so this thing is sucking up batteries terribly bad!

I just checked my feeder about 30 minutes ago. I shinned a flash-light down and there are 5 raccoons down there. 2 are standing on the feed plate (the camera is aimed directly at the feed plate) and 3 were on the ground. I turned the flashlight off quick and just waited to see if I could see the camera flash. I waited 5 minutes and no flash, 10 minutes, no flash, and after 15 minutes with no flash, I shinned the flashlight down to see if the raccoons were still there and sure enough they were.


I e-mailed Stealth Cam about this and let them know what I was experiencing! I asked what they were willing to do about this problem and I am awaiting their response! If they aren't willing to do anything, I will be cancleing the solar panel I have on order (thankfully it is on back-order), and I will be selling the camera on E-Bay as a package, along with the 256 MB memory card I got today.


One other thing that I noticed is that the camera quality isn't exactly what I expected it to be. I figured that I would get better quality and better color from a 3 megapixel camera, but it just doesn't seem to be that great.

Building a home-brew is seeming much more appealing right now![:-]