cant decide on witch trail camera to get
 

i have been thankin about geting a trail camera for one one my well used food plots but cant decide on witch one to get a trailmac 35mm, a cudde back, or a stealth cam 1.3 Digital

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I have two of the cheap 35mm Stealth Cams, and have no complaints about them. I like the front display on them. I know several other guys who have them as well, and everyone seems to like them. I have heard not to use Fuji film in them, because the camera's have a difficult time rewinding it. Feature for feature, I don't think they can be beat. For the price of one "high-end" camera, you can put out a couple of these.

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yea i have thought about getting a couple of those 35mm stealth cams but i have heard alot of peolpe say that they have had alot of troubble with them.

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I've had great luck with the 1.3mp stealth cam. It's easy to operate and not too bad on batteries. I use cheap rayovac batteries from walmart. 24 pack was $7.00 and I get almost 3 weeks per set of 6 batteries

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you do not need the digital to get good pics.i tried a cam 2 years ago. it is called the leaf river cam. it uses a canon camera. i have put over 20 rolls of film thru it without a bad pic.it has withstood storms and other kinds of weather without a problem. they cost about $199

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dep214 is exactly right. Picture quality is very good. I've been using a Stealth Camera (35mm film) for about 8 months and the quality of the pictures is great.

When deciding which camera to buy, keep in mind though how you plan to use the pictures. If you think that digital images would work well for you, then it's probably worth the extra money for the digital camera (in my opinion). I think changing out the film and taking it for processing etc is a pain in the neck and takes more time than I'd like to spend. And I've got to continue paying for film and processing.

Just a thought . . .

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get the cheapo stealth and get some 400 speed kodak. the batteries should last about 2 rolls worth. it just plain works and for the money saved you can put it twords this years taxidermy bill:D if you plan on using the camera extensively year round i can see why one would want a digital camera to save money on the developing. to avoid spooking the deer too much and to get a chance at some pictures of horns i personally like to use my stealth camera on a couple of my stand sites a month or two before the season opens (late july to mid august) then the camera gets put away till next year. i use one roll per stand site and leave the camera out for a week usually no more. the 6$ dollars to get a roll processed aint that big a deal for maybe 4 or 5 rolls a year.

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i have heard that many of the cams are loud and do spook the deer.i am very lucky i guess. it has never spooked the deer.my batteries last about3 weeks if left out for the entire time.if you think mine spooks the deer ask nwla.i sent him a pic my cam took. in the pic is a 150,20" inside spread,205 lb bruiser.also in the pic were 2 bucks with at least 24" inside spreads.

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For the money the cheapie Stealth can't be beat. I too have one of the Leaf River Trail Scan 35mm cameras and it is a good camera.

If you're looking to go digital if it came down to between the Cuddeback or the Stealth 1.3, I'd go with the Cuddeback, I don't have any personal experince with the Stealth digital, but Adams is the only person that I have heard give it a good review. There's also a new digital on the market that looks very interesting called Trail Spy. Eders has them for $349 and they have a lot of unique features.

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I put my two cheap cameras out in April and leave them out until December. I have sat in my stand and watched deer get their picture taken, none of them have been spooked. It could be that they are use to the noise, being that the cameras are out there almost year round. I like to get pics of the deer growing through out the year. The cost of the film and developing isnt a big deal really. Just another hobby the way I see it.

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I have had excellent luck with a Moultrie game cam. One thing I really like is the event counter still works if the camera batteries die.

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I have a 35 mm game camera and just hung a new cuddeback up today, I'm looking forward to not having too buy film and pay for developing also no waiting for a week on your pictures to get back. I will let you know, after I get it all figured out , if I do LOL.

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anybody buy a leaf river digital one yet? they have 2 versions. i think digital would be better it would save alot on money for film
leaf river digitals are here, they said not in until aug 16th cabelas are backorder too

https://www.jesseshunting.com/osComm...hp/cPath/37_48

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I have taken close to 200 pictures this week with the cuddeback, I like it better all the time, It really opens up your picture taking, I used to set my camera up so it would'nt take any more pictures than one every 10 minutes just to save film, now I set the digital at 2 minutes and get alot of good pics that I normally would'nt get with my 35mm. It will save a pile of money in film and developing cost, IMO a digital is the way to go.

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I have 5 trail cams and 3 are the stealth cam, 1 is a mouiltrie and 1 is a buckshot. The buckshot is a total piece of garbage and cost the most. the tree I had 1 stealth cam on got knocked over in a really bad storm and opened up I brought it home cleaned it up and put it back out and it worked fine. For the price you can't beat them digitals are great if you want to spend $400.00 . for me $60.00 is good enough to put on a tree

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I have $69 stealthcam and it works great. I would not hesitate to buy more and spread them around. At $3.99 to develop at Walmart its super cheap and reliable. My pictures look good so I cannot imagine spending over a hundred dollars on a trailcam.

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I have the cheap stealth cam model. It is well worth the $65 I paid for it. But the processing and battery are starting hurt the pocket book. SO this winter I plan on building my own digital. They are cheaper to build then to buy and much easier on the batteries.

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If you take many pictures a digital will pay for itself in a matter of weeks or months, With film being about 5 bucks a roll and developing cost about 5 bucks or more per roll it don't take long, then the 35 mm I had would take a set of 4 batteries about every 2 rolls of film, with the cuddeback, I have now taken about 250 pictures, with no film or developing cost and still on my first set of batteries and they are still about 75% of full charge, With my 35mm I was paying for film and developing cost of squirrel, coon and everything else pics, now I print what I want and delete the rest, and last but sure not least is there is no waiting to see what you have.