Wingscapes WSCT01-00114 TimelapseCam 8.0 Weatherproof 8MP Digital Camera

The media could not be loaded. Bought this to take pictures of my garden growing. The video attached is the result of 1.5 months of pics taken every 30 min during daylight (0700-1900). I had 4 rechargeable "eneloops" in there for a month straight and they were not dead when I changed out the memory card and recharged them. So you can use these rechargeables even though I think the instructions say not to.Works OK, but as others have stated the field of view is real narrow. I put this as far away as I could get it and it still doesn't cover even half of my patio. For reference: the far wall of my patio is around 18-20ft away from the camera and a 6ft tall person (me) standing about 5ft from the far wall gets chopped off.If I had to do it again, I would have probably ordered one of the other "birdcam" models. They have SLIGHTLY wider FOV, even though they are like $50 more. I'd pay much more to get real wide angle like 24mm equivalent or better, but I see nothing out there at any price (except for homebrew stuff). If anyone reading this has found a better setup, please comment.As a side note: you can see the dynamic range issues for the camera when part of the patio is in the sun and the rest is not (the camera is pointing ESE at this location). But frankly I expect that. This is not a high quality digital camera you're getting for $100. I don't see where the other guy is complaining when he points the camera into the sun and gets lens flare. Wow, really? If you put the light source at your back you get acceptable results.Pros:-It's cheap.-It's easy to program for timelapse pix.-It's weatherproof.-Good battery life.Cons:-Narrow FOV.-No real viewer to preview when setting up (more annoying since I have to put this in awkward places due to the narrow FOV).-Fairly cheapo camera. Some cell phones are better these days. But then it does the job.EDIT-->The uploaded video looks REALLY bad on Amazon. The graininess is not in the original. I'll put in some frames as pictures to give a better idea of the image quality. Made the video using "Avidemux" which is a free tool. May come in handy for others making videos from a group of jpegs.

Purchased the camera to make pictures of a construction project. I am very happy with the device and tested it in the office to see who was eating all the trail mix :) Very easy to setup and create a schedule for making pictures at certain intevals. For $100 the images are of great quality. I can record the whole project easily on one 2GB SD card making 1 picture every 15 minutes from 6AM to 5PM, 5 days a week. I changed batteries every 2 months to make sure it would still run, but they were not dead yet. The software for PC is very easy to use and allows you to easily create a video, just choose the resolution and images per second and press create video. The only negative is that you can only make videos using 300 pictures, so you have to select 300 images at the time to create multiple video's. Using Windows Moviemaker you can add the videos together to create one longer video.

I do want to preface this review with the fact that I do like this easy to use unit. There are some design flaws when it comes to the brackets and swivel. I feel the company should design this in a way to be able to swivel the bracket/ball to allow for a true 89 degree angle as well as use larger bolts that are stronger in holding the unit in place. ( I ended up using straps. ~~ My biggest issue with this unit is the FOV (field of view) it is horrible. If you are wanting to time lapse a construction project or anything of any decent width you will have to place this camera so far away to capture the area. In doing so you create such distance that everything LOOKS so far away. I don;t understand why the developers weren;t able to create a wider FOV......it seems pretty easy since even my phone's fov is twice as wide. Looking through the view finder is deceptive since that is not what the caera actually captures. I'd recommend to the manufacturer to recreate this camera with a WIDE angle lens. I'd buy 2-4 more of these if they would.