You can view straight from the cam or have a second sd card to swap out . Might as well leave the cam working for you in the bush and view from a digital camera or card reader. Cam will accept up to a 2 gb card and will not run without an SD card installed. Not sure how they are sold with or without an SD card. What I like about the cam is when yoiu go home leave it to guard the camp to intruders. It is so small and easy to conseal.

Everything rasorbackq said is correct. As for the SD card, the sg550 doesn't come with it. You have to purchase that seperately. Unit also comes with a remote that is needed to set the cam and change settings, format card etc....

Joe
BBO

550s what is the pics size 3 mg or 5mg correct. Why are it the all my pics are around 1mg on low res and 2 on high res?? How I check them is
1) right click on pic
2) properities

http://www.chasingame.com/cameratestimages/2008_scoutguard/watertest/IMG_0272.JPG

Check this link as far as weatherproof goes.

what is the battery life like on these. i have been thinking about getting a couple. i read through here but could not see anything about battery life unless i read over it

buckeater, You can expect to get several thousand pictures on one set of batteries. i'm not really sure how long they last. I've had my first camera out since mid june and have around 3000 pics and 1 hour of video and yesterday it still showed 2/3 battery life. At this rate I should get 5000 pics!

Wanted to let you guys know I have had my website up for a few weeks to sell these cams online. I've been getting quite a few pm's, phone callsand emailsfrom huntingnet members about them so Ifigured I oughtto post up the address. That doesn't mean you can't call, but the site might make it easier on you. www.scoutguard550.comThanks for all the support.

Here is a quote from chasingame on one of their tests:

03-25-2008 update: This short update will just say that this cam has just done everything very good. Since 3-12-08 this camera has taken nearly 5000 pictures and 175 movies. The low battery LED is still off and the camera is still going strong. We are still holding and fortunately we have a couple other SG-550’s so we can parallel some of the tests, or otherwise we would be here all summer.

03-28-2008 update: Well as of yesterday this cam finally died from lack of battery. The total 5120 pictures and 175 movies were recorded during this period. This is far past what we expected. Should this cam be deployed to a trail situation with 20 to 30 pictures a day it might last an extreme length of time. This will have to be one of our next tests. So far we are very happy with the performance of this camera.

Here are some quotes from scout guard users:

"I get about 4,500 pics before I even start to think about the batteries."

"I got over 400 pics and 60 vids in 10 days! Batt still says 100%
Pretty good in my book!"

"My buddy got 3400 pics and 180-15 second videos in 3 months on 8 energizers. 80+ % were at night."

Hope this helps,
Joe
BBO

thanks alot for putting that up. i might just have to go ahead and get some. i think trigger speed and battery life (well mainly battery life) are the biggest reasons i look for. i leave my cams aloan during the summer and try to only check them once a month. and then when im hunting i only check them when i am by them and even then it seems like i leave the new batteries in the truck

The more I use mine, the more I like it. I pulled it today after 5 days in the heavy rain. It had 833 great pics on it. This is a great camera for a great price.