bought a few stealth cams,need help
 

ok i got my stealth cams up now and i was wandering how i can check and see how many pics it has taken w/o taking a picture of myself?

RE: bought a few stealth cams,need help
 

You can walk up behind the tree that your camera is on and peek around without taking your picture. Good luck.

RE: bought a few stealth cams,need help
 

Eddie, I dont mean to "steal" your thread, but I just bought a steal cam as well and I also have a few questions about them. I bought the stealth cam that is at walmart for $60, model MC2-GWM.

1) I noticed that the camera dosent have a "counter" so how do you know how many pictures the camera has taken? How do you know if it has 1 picture or 20 pictures left?

2) If I move the camera from one spot to another (same roll of film) will turning of the camera mess up the film?

Thanks for the help and good luck to all this season.

RE: bought a few stealth cams,need help
 

On my stealth cam (the green version from BPS) you can switch the camera to standby. This preserves the settings like delay and number of pics per trip, then move the camera to a new spot and switch it back to "on". The camera still reads whatever number picture it was on and the settings are still the same.

RE: bought a few stealth cams,need help
 

The display counts the number of triggered events. Even when the all film is exposed the events keep counting. Last week I had one that displayed 93.

When yopu move the camera without chang4ing the film, set the switch to standby rather than off.

After loading the film make sure the display has "0" events, not an "E". If it display an "E" the system thinks the camera is empty.

Some of my pics at http://www.racksnspurs.com/Photos.htm

RE: bought a few stealth cams,need help
 

It took me a while to figure my stealth cam out, but I had a hard time getting the film to load right, so it doesn't hurt to take a picture of yourself. Listen for the film to advance, so you'll know it's loaded correctly. There's nothing worse than putting out 200 lbs. of corn, seeing "24" on the display, then not having any pictures!

RE: bought a few stealth cams,need help
 

i took mine off the tree this am and took it back to walmart.in over four weeks and two trees,the only pics are mine.i watched deer pass by the cam and no pics while they were within the test range.it tested and took pics of me but never showed low batteries even after four weeks.friends have bought same cam with same results.what gives?????/

RE: bought a few stealth cams,need help
 

Not to be a smart @$$ but, did you make sure you switched the camera to "on" and didn't leave it on test mode? And did you make sure the film was loaded. The LCD screen should read 0, if it reads "E" then the teeth on the gear didn't catch the film.

RE: bought a few stealth cams,need help
 

I've heard mixed reviews about these cameras, but once I figured mine out, it does pretty good. The price is right too!

RE: bought a few stealth cams,need help
 

Yeah.....once you the hang of flim loading...its a good cam....I had a heck of a time with my new cam loading kodak flim.......for some reason after 6 tries of loading and unloading....even had to tear off some ruined flim......the counter findly took and said 0.....most people just don't understand this.....as mention above.....THE COUNTER MUST SAY... " O " ......DO NOT AND I REPEAT ....DO NOT HANG THE CAM IF IT READS...." E " ......it will not work.....keep moving the flim around....close it.....and check for the....0..(for operational).....if ya see....E...(empty)......you need to keep trying. Good cam.....just real picky on flim loading.....most guys take them back....because of this little bug .....it gets easier with practise.

RE: bought a few stealth cams,need help
 

read my instructions front to back and had no problem with the display,film feed or taking pics of myself.deer were passing in front of the cam,it was not facing east or west and there is no reason it should have not taken any pics.when i pulled it off the tree, it showed 6 pics taken.four of those were of me and the other two were taken the first week.am having them developed just to see if they took.

RE: bought a few stealth cams,need help
 

sorry this was a duplicate.

RE: bought a few stealth cams,need help
 

I put my new camera out for the 2nd time yesterday. The first time I had it out I found out a couple of days later that you can't use Fuji film. I found this out on the Cabelas website. They say the camera will not advance the film. Could this be your problem? The StealthCam instructions only 'recommend' Kodak film.
When I went to retrieve the camera the counter only read 1! And I know there are a lot of deer that travel the trail I put it on. So, I went and bought some Kodak film. I found another place to hang the camera and loaded the film...got a '0' on the counter....tested the coverage area...switched the camera on.....and with crossed fingers I am hoping for the best!