[MTH]

www.chasingame.com has a lot of tail camera reviews best site ive ever seen for trail cam reviews. goodluck

That guy does loads of independent testing on many modls of cams and posts his results on battery length, trigger speeed, distance capability, day/night optics, video capabilities and so on.....

He uses the cams in real word applications. Its not inside the factory testing-he straps the cams to trees on his property and leaves them for months at a time testing them with speed photography cards and the like-It's a great site!

 

[MTH]

Also what are the minimum specs I should be looking for? I'm a technology idiot so explain if you think a 5 year old won't understand hah.

I will limit this to digital cams-as the day of the film cam is dead!(sory to you one or two film guys still running around)

Your first question is IR(infrared-no fash) or flash. Ther's a $100 difference between the two. While the flas realy won't spook game coming to a feeder, it will impact an "undisturbed" area where you set the cam up on a deer trail without bait to catch natural movement. Also a flash is a big sign for theives to follow.

Next question is trigger speed-the faster the better. About 1 to 3 seconds should be your goal. Moultrie and Cuddieback often have speeds in that range. A longer trigger speed is ok if the cam is over bait. For trail pics, just place the cam facing head on in the trail giving a front view as oppose dto a broadside view of the deer-that will allow the animal to be in the trigger zone long enough to trigger.

3rd question is viewability-if you get a cam with an SD card memory slot, you can simply change cards when checking the camera(about a $5.00 proposition) and place the card you just took out of the cam into your off the shelf digital cammera--no need for fancy viewers or special cables

4th question is battery type and life. I would never by a cam with a "rechargable battery" But I would make sure any cam I got had a battery life of at least 30 days on one set of batteries taking regular pics.

These are the basic questions to ask yourself. If you want to be realy HITECH, you can opt for special beels and whistles like solar power recharging and video imagng, but a base model cam is realy all you need.

I have the Moutrie I-40 IR model-at $180.00 its not to expensive, easy to program, very user friendly with a 2 to 3 second trigger speed-weather tightness is excellent, and there are plenty of aftermarket accesories to make it theft resistant. It takes excellent pictures, has SD card memory, and lasts up to 5000 pics on one set of d-cell batteries. Its a great all around cam