jmorris
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The recent trail camera thread made me realize I never put more than one game camera at the same location to see what they did side by side.
It also made me think back when they were all 35mm, so you had to wait a week to see what had been there the week before that.
That lead me to make the first digital game camera that I know of. Used a couple of 555 IC’s and dip switches to go from 25 seconds up to 15 minutes between shots. Activated by an IR motion sensor, servo to press the camera button. It had to be activated once to “wake up” then would take pictures for some amount of time before it “went to sleep” saving the batteries, used 2, 6v deer feeder batteries so I could get 12v for the sensor & timer circuit and 6v for the camera. It was “high tech” at the time as you could see what was there, while you were hunting somewhere else the same day vs the next week. Led me to make the game radios but that’s a different story.
Anyhow I had thought a side by side of a few I use now would be cool but my newest Moultrie was stolen a few weeks ago and that put a damper on that idea. I had an old Bushnell that I replaced it with (many feet higher and better hidden, because it seems folks can’t help but return to the scene of the crime). I went to check on it yesterday and noticed the stolen camera had been returned. From the photos it looked like “Dad” made him return it, good for him and thank you!
They kept the memory card, I guess because it contained photos of them stealing it. And they didn’t notice the old camera above or he wouldn’t have bothered wiping his finger prints off in this photo.
So, I was back in business. Drilled a couple holes in an aluminum angle so they were all in the same plane and screwed them to a tree.
The Browning is my oldest Browning camera, the Bushnell is the newest model we have as is the Moultrie. I had always favored the Browning’s but that one didn’t do so hot this weekend.
I tried to set them all the same, 1 min between single shots, highest resolution, etc (might not have done a good job because I couldn’t even get the month right on all of them).
Thoes make the Browning look pretty good but it only took 22 photos yesterday/last night the Bushnell had 70 and the Moultrie 144. It took none after dark, not sure why brought it back to see if I can figure it out.
These are from the other two though.
The moultrie seems to be more of a zoomed in and not as crisp photo, it also is more sensitive because a lot of its photos are of birds or nothing.
I might gather up the other 4 or 5 cameras to compare all of them while nothing else is going on.
It also made me think back when they were all 35mm, so you had to wait a week to see what had been there the week before that.
That lead me to make the first digital game camera that I know of. Used a couple of 555 IC’s and dip switches to go from 25 seconds up to 15 minutes between shots. Activated by an IR motion sensor, servo to press the camera button. It had to be activated once to “wake up” then would take pictures for some amount of time before it “went to sleep” saving the batteries, used 2, 6v deer feeder batteries so I could get 12v for the sensor & timer circuit and 6v for the camera. It was “high tech” at the time as you could see what was there, while you were hunting somewhere else the same day vs the next week. Led me to make the game radios but that’s a different story.
Anyhow I had thought a side by side of a few I use now would be cool but my newest Moultrie was stolen a few weeks ago and that put a damper on that idea. I had an old Bushnell that I replaced it with (many feet higher and better hidden, because it seems folks can’t help but return to the scene of the crime). I went to check on it yesterday and noticed the stolen camera had been returned. From the photos it looked like “Dad” made him return it, good for him and thank you!
They kept the memory card, I guess because it contained photos of them stealing it. And they didn’t notice the old camera above or he wouldn’t have bothered wiping his finger prints off in this photo.
So, I was back in business. Drilled a couple holes in an aluminum angle so they were all in the same plane and screwed them to a tree.
The Browning is my oldest Browning camera, the Bushnell is the newest model we have as is the Moultrie. I had always favored the Browning’s but that one didn’t do so hot this weekend.
I tried to set them all the same, 1 min between single shots, highest resolution, etc (might not have done a good job because I couldn’t even get the month right on all of them).
Thoes make the Browning look pretty good but it only took 22 photos yesterday/last night the Bushnell had 70 and the Moultrie 144. It took none after dark, not sure why brought it back to see if I can figure it out.
These are from the other two though.
The moultrie seems to be more of a zoomed in and not as crisp photo, it also is more sensitive because a lot of its photos are of birds or nothing.
I might gather up the other 4 or 5 cameras to compare all of them while nothing else is going on.
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