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N**S
Garden Watch
Great little camera that produces first class pictures. We bought it to monitor hedgehogs as we knew they were visiting our garden. Wow were we surprised we now have hundreds of pictures from different times of the night. It was interesting to see our 5 of our 6 cats ignore them. The sixth cat is special needs (brain damaged) and she is fascinated with them. She watches for them coming down the side of the house every night.The batteries are still on full charge having been on every night since we purchased it (18 days ago).The quality of the infrared pictures amazed us, its full of detail. We are going to put it close to our bird feeder in due course as we know we have many more species than we have seen with the naked eye.We would highly recommend this little gadget it has given us a lot of insight in to the habits of our hedgehog population. Photos attached
M**B
It may 'say' 12MP...
Your browser does not support HTML5 video. This is replacing an old Swann 5MP camera I had, that's developed a fault on the illumination LED's. I was rather hoping it would be a real upgrade.The unit takes 4 or 8 batteries, which allows you to decide if you want to run it for longer or not. Using 8 batteries that registered as 'low' on this unit, this was still running after 2 weeks, so I can only assume the power consumption is pretty good.It looks very similar (internally) to many other devices on the market, with a screen and control buttons inside the front half of the unit. Setup is a doddle, and you can review the images/videos on here. That's great, but you can't use it to set up where it's pointing as the camera swivels round when you open it...After inserting the SD card I took a few test pictures and it all looked OK on the screen. Daylight images are fairly clear but not really equivalent to any other 12MP camera I've used. Even my old 5MP Swann takes much clearer pictures. I suspect it's closer to 3MP but with considerable upscaling. The same goes for video, 1080 lines are in the video, but the resolution is much, much lower.I could accept this as it's still OK to see what's going on. My gripe is the nighttime images. You can see from the picture that the fox in shot (about 10' away) is well lit, as is everything up to that point and a bit beyond, yet the image is really grainy. It looks worse on video. The sensor should have enough light to not need to up the gain, but that's what appears to be happening.It's acceptable, sure, but certainly not the resolution claimed or the clarity I would expect from a cheap phone camera.I'm sure that the internals are similar to many of the others on the market with the same screen/button layout. As many find out, paying more doesn't mean you get something better. Such a shame, as I'd pay more if I knew the quality on another similar unit would be much better!
M**S
Great camera for the price
Great camera for the price, as it’s up to 12 mp, so good for still and HD video. I have a wildlife haven in my garden, so set up the camera last night on the infra red night vision, and was so please to get a shot of a hedgehog, which I thought we had, but never seen it until now, very exciting result, the camera was easy to set up, with a reset button which allows reviews of shots. I doesn’t come with come with SD card and needs 8 AA batteries, but these will last for months, so not a big deal.
M**H
A good solidly built Camera
This is a very well made, solid Wildlife Camera, instructions are easy to follow making the camera simple to set up.I set the camera up in my garden on the first evening on a tripod and was surprised in the morning by 2 hedgehogs in my garden feasting on slugs just before dark and a robin feeding on my bird table in the morning, but I was very surprised to see a bat flying around my garden, I didn't expect the motion sensor to pick that up twice.I am very happy with my camera and yes, most deffinetly would recommend
M**K
Pleasantly surprised with the camera!
Recently purchased this product for a trip I had with a few friends. We set up camp and placed a couple of cameras on trees nearby to capture footage of wildlife nearby.To our surprised, the camera was fairly easy to set up, but I had to get my friend to figure out how to open the latch for the battery supplies... D'oh! People have suggested placing the camera further away for a clearer shot but I have not had any issues with how clear the images are of the roaming foxes that came to say hello! The night vision was able to capture wildlife in 'total darkness' as the description states. The comments I have read on battery life seems to vary, but mine seems to do fairly well. It managed to last longer than 2 evenings!The camera seems to be very robust, i was devastated when I dropped the camera but to my please try surprise, at close inspection, the was hardly any damage taken by the camera. Defo worth considering if you are a novice and getting into taking pictures and videos of wildlife!
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