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Hello to all and here is my 1st post.Lots of good tips so far.Should help alot of folks out.For those of you using 35mm film cams,be sure your camera reads whatever speed film you are using.Usally your instruction book will say what dx coding the camera reads.I know the canon owl pf camera takes 100-200 or 400 speed film and if you put in 800 or 1600 it defaults back to the lower setting of 100 speed which will result in a substantial loss of flash distance compared to the 400 speed.Send an email to your cam manufacture if unsure what speed you can use.

Also anyone experiencing ants in their cam can try putting a little cayenne pepper in cam,perhaps in a little bottle cap or such.Seems the ants dont care for it...

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Any of you have a coon that was a ham just got 27 pic of the same coon ,1 pic every 2 min so it stayed 52 min ?

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2 many times. A .22 and a barbque pit work well there though.

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Would you suggest a Stealth cam MC2-g to someone who is just starting to use trail cameras.

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If you have a high coon population ,be carful where you put your cam. . Coon are curis so don't put your cam. where they travel .I now have 3 rolls of film with 1 shot of deer ,2 of trukeys and 78 of coon, the same one I think. I just moved the cam. ,coon season may have to open early!

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Not allowed to use game cams here.Would be interesting though.
Elkshed

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Elkshed, I've sold Trailcam electronics and build cams for folks up there. You may want to check a little further.

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You can make your housing bear proof. After you have made/bought a metal housing for your camera, simply weld some 1.5 inch nails onto it about every 2 inches around the entire thing. It will look like some kind of mid-evil mask, and you must be carefull with it, but the bears will not fool with it at all.;)

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Not sure I'd want too after that either. [:-]

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like others have said, definately watch facing it towards where the sunset or sunrise might hit it. i set my first roll up on a field edge and got a complete roll of an empty sunny field.

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Elkshed.............What do you mean you can't use game cameras here?

Thanks!

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Got my first film from my new Stealth Cam. Several doe and fawns and a small buck. I will try to post the pic of the buck but bear with me because this is the first time I tried to post a pic.
Wish me luck!!!


It wont work !!!
Whejn I try to upload, I do not get a confirmation message that I am told I should get. Instead I get a "This page cannot be displayed " message.

What gives???
Anyone know how to solve this problem?

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One more try!!!
I think its going to be small. It was scanned at 300 dpi and this forum only allows 30K for pics so I had to crop it and shrink it down WAY too small.
Anyway The buck has 4 points on his left side but only a brow tine and a g-2 on the right. The rest appear to be broken off right after the g-2.
This can easily be seen from an enargement I made.
By the way all the deer in my photos were taken between 11am and 4 pm.
Usually the time period that I am not bowhunting! Go figure!

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Once again!
Try this.

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If you are worried about your camera being stolen (by humans) I'd advise the following. There's someone on this forum who said it worked for them.

Make it so that the first picture on the roll is of you holding a sign that says:

"If this film is not being developed by <your name here> please call: <your # here> because this camera was stolen"

Could have helped recover my game cam [:@]

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That is a good idea. Too bad it wouldn't work for the digitals.

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digitals are WAY out of my spending range... ;)

So it takes care of my problem... well it would have anyway. I heard about it on this forum after complaining about my cam being stolen! [:@]

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A couple of fence T posts 4" apart will enable you to put your camera anywhere at any angle away from the sun or in good spot that happens to be absent of trees (pond or creek edges for example).

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tip

SAM's here in AR have the StealthCam MC1-D cameras with the 90' flash and tree mounts/lock for $99

$20 less than Cabelas

I bought mine yesterday :D

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Best tip around.............

DO NOT BUY A STEALTH 3.0 DIGITAL GAME CAMERA!!! It's a battery eating, no picture taking, piece of crap.

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TRUE!

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If you have problems with taking pic. of nothing look a little closer. Compair the pics with eachother and pay close attn. to the leaves and branches. These things will take pic. of leaves moving, and the pic. should show you which ones to remove.

Deer Cam by Nontypical

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Sorry about this...I did not mean to hit the "ok" button on the message above. How embarrasing![:o]

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Hi there,

This is the wife speaking;) Today we went out to retrieve my husband's cuddeback that he had placed on a trail on the 8th of July. Imagine our delight to find that we had a number of photographs & video. Woohoo. Though upon viewing them at home, turned into a boohoo session. About 17 of the photos appeared solarized (term used in a photo editor). Such as the photo I attached.

The first shots were fine as were the last.
For reasons unknown, many of the shots inbetween turned out with a solarized/split scene appearance. Ugh! My first thought was that the camera was at fault, however...if that were the case, would not all the photos have turned out bad? So, I'm am wondering if it is the media card? Anyone experience this or have and knowledge/theory of why so many photos turned out like the one below?
To note, all the photos that turned out bad, were dated 1/1/2003 1:00 am (incorrect, of course) However, the dates & times were correct in looking at the "Event.txt"

Any ideas as to what is causing these aberrations would very much be appreciated.

~Kate

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I'll attach 2 more photos so that you can see the variations that we've had. If I knew how to stitch the photos together in my editor, I would. :eek:

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Crummy picture #3 (how depressing!):(

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mars rover pics?

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[&:] lol Here is a decent photo the cuddeback took , amidist the bad ones. To assure you that we indeed reside here on planet earth.:D

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We just got a digital Stealth Cam. Using the tips from this forum for placement of the camera have really helped improve the pictures we are getting. Is there any way you could create an ongoing list of these tips on your main website? I would definitely print it out and use them. I had trouble finding this kind of information and just happened to come across this thread by chance.

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Nice pic Donovanj

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In case any are interested in responses we just received elsewhere (including a response from Cuddeback), regarding this problem:

From Cuddeback:

Bruce,

The image you see is generally caused by one of three things:

1) The media card was removed while the image was being saved

2) The batteries were weak (Always use brand new Duracell or Energizer batteries, other brands do not have sufficient current capacity to run the camera.

3) The Smart Media card is defective.

If you do not think one of the above is the cause of the problem call our tech service department.

Thanks,

Mark

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My thoughts:


1: While the camera was strapped to a tree was the weather very hot or very cold? The media card may not be rated for extremes of temperature.

2: What about humidity? Again the media card may have been operating outside its specification.

3: Is the camera rated for extremes of temperature and/or humidity? The CCD may have been affected. I say this because, although the bad image files were dated incorrectly, the logfile (.txt file) was OK meaning that part of the camera system was working OK (updating and writing the .txt file to the media card) while another part was not (capturing the images and writing them to the media card).

4: The camera batteries of course would also be affected by extremes in temperature and humidity: particularly if it got very cold, the batteries would be unable to delivery their full charge and so maybe that resulted in the camera/media card operating at a borderline power level.

Just a few possibilities (excluding mischievous deer and aliens ;-))

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Your files are corrupted. I've seen the same thing happen when files posted on the internet are damaged during downloading. The fact that your time and date is wrong on these pics supports this notion. It is almost certainly a hardware problem possibly due to a bad memory card. Try using the camera for a while with a different memory card to make certain the problem is not in the camera itself.

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I thought to post this in case you should ever experience this or know/will know someone who has/will.

Fortunately our warranty has not expired, though close! Mark Cuddeback responded quickly (this was nice) to our problem. I have faith that he will correct the problem, should the problem be with the camera itself.

Yesterday my husband set the cam up again and in a week, he is going to swap out the media card for the one that originally came with the cam (Viking). Hopefully it's just the card: a quick, easy and inexpensive sollution.

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I should pay a little closer to my advise. Just developed my roll of 24 and had just that many pictures of corn field. All taken within 2 hours of my new placement. Darn tree branch.

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I have used a moultrie feeders cam since last November. I have not had any problem with this camera. I think it cost about 120. The only big problem I had was it did not take any pictures for three weeks yet there was a ton of tracks around it.

RBBH tip of the day---- make sure the camera is turned on when you leave it in the woods for three weeks, if you don't there will be no pics.


have fun!

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Thats funny. Thats something that I would do when I realy want pic. from a new area.

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I've got the same camera RBBH and yes I've left it off before too. But I have a question for you. Do you use the 6 extra batteries everytime or is this a waste? I think last year all my pics came out over the feeding stations with just the AA's in the camera but trail locations had fewer pics and I needed the reserve power. For what it's worth $99.00 it's very very good and shoots great pics.

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I just rotate the batteries in the summer and fall. About every 3 weeks I put a new set of bats in the camera, then take the old bats and put them in the reserve. Replacing the oldest ones. I have never had a problem.
Now, when it gets cold(below 45 or so) I always make sure I have fresh bats. In the camera itself I like the lithiums. They can take the cold really well.

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hey river bottom I have the same camera, I live down the road in Patoka.
The only problem I see is the camera itself is junk!
Where in Fay Co. do you live?

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When I put my Stealth Cam up, all I get is pictures of the trees but 80% of the weeds in front of the camera were removed. In some of the pictures it looks like I can see eyes inside the trees but I cant see any part of a deer's body. Can someone tell me the things that I'm doing wrong?

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Deer-Slayer22

Its likely that an animal is triggering the camera - outside your shutter view. It could be its too far out - or under/over/left/right of the veiw but inside the trigger cone. I get this problem when turkeys walk close to the camera - Sometimes I get a "Turkey Head" in the shot.

Also the flash on the stealth is not very strong - even with good batteries. Deer outside the flash range might trigger the shots - but you cannot see them. Keep in mind that even in daylight - the deer really should be 10ft-20ft from the camera to make out detail.

To fix the distance of flash problem - position the camera to take advantage of a natural blocker - like a blowdown, or a hedgerow between the camera and where the deer should cross. If for instance on a logging road - the camera should shoot across the road not down it- prefferably with some large tree trunks or a blowdown across.

To fix the turkey example - Sometimes I position the camera lower - or maybe higher at a steeper angle down.

I know other people who duct tape the sensor - to narrow the triggering cone of the device - I have not needed to do this with my Stealth Cams.

Good luck - and keep experimenting.