A suckers born every minute! I couldn't resist, stopped by BPS today just to "check out" game cams and somehow the 2 Bushnell "black flash" cams they had on the rack followed me home.

I'm TECKNO IGNERNT when it comes to electronics, mostly because I hate learning a computerized whatever and then 6mths later it's obsolete and you gotta start over. This is my first shot at game cams. But I'm willing to give these things the old college try. I'm sure they'll do much more than I care for them to and I might not even have needed this particular model but wth here they are.

So for you "timber techies" what settings, time lapes etc are most preferential? I understand these will take "plot/landscape pics" at whatever intervals I set but then continue to also take regular pics triggered by activity? That mean I can set them to take plot pics every 5-15 mins during daylight and then resort to only triggered pics at night?

Am I also right in understanding that I can adjust the time between triggered pics? As much fun as it might be, I could care less about getting 4500 pics of doe groups each week but then again this time of year I would hate to miss several pics of a bachelor group as they wondered by the cam. So what intervals do you guys recommend for setting the trigger on these things?

Patience with me, I'm learnin another gizmo...
RA

HatchieLuvr: I have the following brands of cameras set up as: 1) seven of the 2009 Bushnell Trophy trail camera--video-30 second with 15 second delay.
2) two Spy Point IRB--video-30 second with 15 second delay.
3) three Moultrie Game Spy D55-IR--video-30 second with 15 second delay. In the video setting this camera takes a picture first, then the video. Night videos are limited to 10 second. Also with this camera: 1) field of view is narrower in the video as compared to the picture, 2) the video has a faded or washed out look compared to the picture.
In my area, I am not permitted to use bait unless during bear season, therefore I set up along trails or near a natural water source.

Like grandmaw always said, "Read the instructions!" I gotta admit, Bushnell has an EXTREMELY easy to use and understand instruction booklet with these cams. I'm not one for sitting down in one night and memorizing a booklet and I DESPISE 100pg expert PHd written owners manuals. I assumed that's what these things would have, but it's delightful to see that they aren't that way.