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whats your opinon on this camera, i know you get what you pay for,it gets expense developing 35mm,really just want to get some pic. to see if the big boys are still around, thanks

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one on one , i think that camara is a sweet deal for the price very easy to use and veiw, just check my pics. today had 3 does do yourself a favor and get one of the us cards, ineed to get one so i can post pics. i hope that this helps u out:)

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I'm in the market for a moultrie also. They seem to take good pics for the price. Not the best on the market, but it's well w/in my range - $100 is hard to beat...

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The camera does take good pics for the price. I think one of the only complaints has been the range of pics at night. Camera doesn't take pics out too far.

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the camera works great for ranges till about 15 yards orso , after that you can still see it , but it gets blurry really quick because the flash isn't that strong , and it's only a 1.3 MP camera.

i have to go check mine in the morning to see if the big buck passed by yet.. i have a pic of him , but it's too far way all you can see is his behind and the outline of the rack (wich is a nice one) , and i have 1 pic of a 1,5 year old buck ..

i will post those pics tomorrow so you can see the quality of the cam.

i will tell you that you need to invest in a 128 Meg SD card, on a windy or rainy night the 32 pics that the camera can hold at high setting is not enough , you get alot of false alarms.. last night the camera took 64 pictures and only 3 of them had a deer on it ;). with the 128 meg SD card you have room for 298 pictures on high setting.

and you might also get you some small bungee cords, the shoe laces that come with the camera are ****ty to work with at best, but i guess you can's complain too much for $100,- camera ;)

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My uncle has one and it works great. you never catch the back of the deer.

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well guys i bought one and i have it set up,will let you know my opinon,i think i have it set to take three pic. every time it takes one,i waswalking away from it after it took one of my lab for testing and it took two more, thanks for your input.

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We now have 2 down on the farm with the memory cards. The tenant will be mailing me the cards regularly cause they don't have a reader for the cards. I will download and print pics and mail back. They do take good pics like said, out to like 15 yards. Alot of night pics have a good pic af deer that triggered cam and glowing eyes off in the background.

Yes the lace mounting is BS and we'll move to small bungees to solve that.

Another issue is battry life and cost. We have switched to the rechargable 6V lantern-type batteries from Cabela's and are now going to set them up with the solar panel chargers Cabela's has for $19.99 each. That way we don't have to swap out batteries. But the rechargeable batteries are a good deal at $9.99 each cause a throw away battery is practically that much.

I think we'll have to fit the new solar panels with smaller clips like the ones that come in the camera housing, the big clips that come on the panels won't fit in the camera's housing. And we'll have to drill a small hole in the bottom and seal with silicone seal before attaching the new smaller clips inside.

There is also a viewer you can take out in the field with you to view pics taken. I think it's $149. Does anyone have any ideas as to another way to view the pics in the field? Maybe something like a portable DVD player or something? Anyone have any input on this?

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i have two memory cards,when i go to the woods to check my moultrie camera i'll take my wifes digital camera and change out the cards and use the wifes digital cam, to view the moultrie pic.

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I have a 5" black and white TV that I got for like 15 bucks. It plugs into my truck cig lighter and then the video cable from the camera plugs into the back of the TV. Not the best pics but it works. When the camera is full i download them onto my computer. It would probably be a lot easier to buy 2 memory cards and just swap them every time you check your camera but i am cheap like that.

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A link to the picture quality review from my Moultrie test.

http://www.whitetaildeer-management-and-hunting.com/moultrie-picture-quality.html

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Sorry to hear that pic quality sux. Hate to say it, but you get what you pay for. Don't mean any disrespect by it, but that's the god honest truth. I was thinking of getting a Moultrie digital for $100 up until last week. It would be nice to see some deer, but then again, I might as well do it right the 1st time and get a better game cam.

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You can get this for $20:
Flash reader
It would allow them to download the pics from the cam and then download them to a PC for e-mailing to you .

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Our picture results look like the last two pics on snoogsdad's review page. It looks like the rest of the review pics were taken with the camera pointed to the sun.

What kind of results are others getting as to pic quality?

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I have been putting my cam on the High res stting and the pics turn out great. I will say that it has limited range but I'm still happy with it. If my computer wasn't blocked by the admin at work I would load a few and show you my pics. I have been nothing but happy with the pics/movies I been getting.


another note. While reading the latest issue of NAW I looked at the cuddeback ad on the inside of the front cover. Its the ad that shows the cud. is quicker than the other cams. Notice the time on the cudd. it says 11:11 while the time on the moultrie is at 11:21. Now did someone mis-set the time, or did I catch them doing a shady test?

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SNOOGSDAD'S PICS LOOK SO BADLY WASHED OUT BECAUSE THE CAMERA IS TOO CLOSE IT LOOKS LIKE ITS 2 FEET FROM THE DEER IF HE BACKED IT AWAY A LITTLE FURTHER FROM THE FEEDER THEY WOULDNT GET SO WASHED OUT. THAT THE ONLY TIME MY PICS COME WASHED OUT IS WHEN THE DEER IS DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA

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I've used the camera now for about a month. I'm not having any problems with the quality of the pictures. In fact, I've been quite impressed with the pics. I am using a 256 memory chip and have it set for high quality.

I have, however, had problems with the battery life. I'm not even getting a week out of a brand new battery. I am thinking about trying to solar panel. Does anyone have experience with these? especially on well they actually work?

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In my tests the camera was not pointing into the sun and all of the pictures on the Moultrie review page were from the same location. Pointing the camera into the sun definitely affects the pictures and I would not give it a bad grade for what the sun does.

The camera was on the high resolution setting.

The camera was about 10 feet away from the center of the feeder and some of the worst pictures are when the deer are closer, but that is part of the point. Real close pictures with a good camera are real good pictures, not washed out.

I try to do everything I can to not bias the results, I couldn't care less what camera does good or bad. My interest is just trying to provide a resource for people to compare the different cameras.

I would be delighted if one of the cheap cameras would equal the quality of the more expensive ones but I have not found one yet. When and if I do it will be in the review.

A little over a year ago I was looking for this kind of information and couldn't find it so I decided to do it myself. The more cameras I can test the better the results will be but those things get expensive after you have a few of them.

Happy picture taking,
John

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10-4 there snoogsdad.

It seems that most of the folks posting here like their Moultries for their inended purposes.

wvvet......

I just ordered the solar panels today. should arrive 19th @ the farm. Give me a week or so after that and I'll let you know how they work. The'll be set up with the rechargeable batteries.

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I'm using the cheap batt. from walmart and I have been getting a months use at a time out of it. I probably havn't took as many pics as some but with ave. use it has lasted a month or better every time.

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I have had no problem with quality, but I have a problem w/ battery life. I check my cam every week and it is dead everytime I go and check it. I guess I am just going to have to invest in a solar charger. I have a company laptop, so it makes it easy to take my computer in the field and download the pics straight to my computer w/out even taking the cam off the tree. I have one question....Does anyone know what the camera ID setting is for? I haven't really looked into it yet, but before I do I thought maybe one of you guys know. Anyway.. here are some pics from the cam.

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that's for when you have more then one, it will imprint the camera ID before the date so you know wich pics came from wich camera..

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In the cam ID I usually put the location of the cam: hickory creek, honey hole, etc..

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RiverBottomBowHunter, how do you take care of spelling the locations? I thought it would only ID the location(s) by number. But if we can actually spell the location - that's extra cool.

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Just go to the cam ID and start hitting the up and down arrows.

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Ah. So the names you can choose for the ID locations are chosen from a prescribed menu? I can't use terms like "the creek stand", "the oaks", "the bucket" or "the saucer"?

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No, its like putting your name in a video game after getting the highest score. I wonder if you cant do that with certain ones. I have the camo one.

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OK, thanks, I feel like an idiot for asking but I just didn't know and I thought it may had something to do w/my battery running down so quickly. Obviously it doesn't maybe I just got a bad camera, thanks guys for answering my question.

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i'm going to check mine in the morning,hope to have big boy, will let ya'll know.

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well only a few does and some coons, nothing to post

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These things are kind of crappy with quality control. Lots of guys have bad ones, some good. I have returned 2 of them and have 2 that seem to work. one is the 200 model and that one seems a little better. The 100 model has the same trouble with over-exposed pictures and poor range. I called the company and the guy had a double standard excuse. First about the poor range, he said "I wouldnt want a picture of a deer further that 15 feet anyway" then for the overexposure he said "yea that will happen if the deer is too close and the flash bounces back at the camera"
I guess this jerk likes close ups of overexposed deer!
Anyway, i wouldnt buy one until they get the bugs worked out. Maybe the next batch will be fixed and they will be woth it but for now i wouldnt waste my money if i had to do it again.
BTW, there is a post on Bowsite that tells you how to fix the poor range problem. Mine has this problem and i ordered the parts to fix it. seems pretty easy. Sounds like the IR sensor is located to far away from the lense that it sits behind. A guy who builds homebuilt cameras did this mod and said it now works out to 25 feet like it should.
As far as the overexposer goes.. i wonder if putting a little tape over the flash would tone it down a bit??
As far as Viewing the pictures, a lot of guys forget that they have video cameras that can view them:eek:
Just take the RCwires that your video camera uses, and connect them to the RC wires the deercam came with Via a cheap adapter from radio shack or other store. Then put your video camera on record mode like you were going to duba tape from another camera and SURPRISE! the pictures show up. and if you want you can press record on yourvideo camera and record the video feed as you scroll through the pictures and play themback on your TV at home through the camcorder. Any camcorder can do this..... you just didnt think of it:D

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I have two moultries. No complaint about the pic quality. Problem is with the trigger speed. You can sometimes dance around in front of it for ever without a pic. Camera is useless if you don't set it up on a food plot or mineral lick where the deer will linger long enough for it to kick in. ...........dabow

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Mine works good but it does have minor problems such as cold killing a battery fast, to close and the deer looks white, and a not very sensitive sensor but other than that I like it! It isn't hard to work with these problems in my eyes.


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it is a great camera i have three myself and if i can figure out how to put tham on the computer i will show you the quality of the photos

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well after several hundred pic. i think its well worth 100 buck, slow on thetrigger, not the best on quality, but all i wanted to see it do.it did just that.take a look.

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heres another