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Excellent camera. Fast and efficient service. Would buy again.
Crenova Trail Camera 20MP 1080P HD with 32GB Micro CardPros:1. Getting some pretty good fox videos in night (IR) mode2. Menus are pretty self explanatory.3. Build quality is pretty good, quite rugged & definately water-proof- as long as you're not trying to set up recording in the rain.4. Sensible price, I guess,- wondering if the £200+ 'higher-end' trail cameras (with things like 4G or solar-panels) produce any better results, I suspect not.5. Works with external power supply (6V, 2A), but really they should optionally supply this - or at least recommend a suitable one.Cons:1. Can't take a motion-detection video longer than 90 seconds (!)there are several options from 10 to 90 seconds, really need options for say 5 or 10 minutes, or even much more.Considering a 90 sec 1080 video is 170 MBytes, you could fit more than 180 videos on the 32 GByte micro SD card supplied,= 4.5 hours continuous video !but probably wouldn't be able to get more than 30 mins due to that commonly imposed EU-tax DSLR-versus-VideoCamera limitation,&/or possibly the filing-system 4 GByte file-limit (FAT32 ?)2. The actual delay (for video starting to record upon detecting some motion) is NOT 0.2sec, more like 10 sec,plus there's some other 8 sec delay between videos.This means for several videos of say a fox visiting for several minutes, the videos are split into 90 sec lengths,& so there's about a 18 sec gap between the end of one & the start of the next,which is really quite annoying.3. Sometims it seems to get into some states, when you are reviewing videos on-screen, where you have to turn it off & on againto get out of some menu-sequence problems (depending on circumstances).e.g. as you open the case, it is going to have detected you approaching & will probably be recording,you then switch to display-on & it aborts recording, seemingly creating an invalid file or something, so when you try to reviewyou get into situation where you can't get back to the main screen.4. Heavy on batteries, 2nd set of 8 AAs down to 1/3 power after only a few days,so now got myself a 6V, 2A adaptor which works perfectly,but obviously you have to have a (waterproof) mains socket within 10ft or so(luckily I have, for where I'm filming currently).Otherwise would recommend rechargable batteries if you're using the camera heavily...5. Have yet to get any 'good' still-images at all, I think the auto-exposure/IR doesn't work too well for stillsalways get a 'blasted-out' image of the actual subject (e.g. fox), so stopped bothering to try.However there's some sort of exposure adjustment with videos that works very well- it seems to auto adjust nicely within the first 1/2 sec or so of the video, giving nice exposure for the rest of the video.Anyway, I suspect most trail camera operate in a similar fashion & have similar problems/limitations (?),so the review score is base only on IR video results,which have always been good so far (as long as you avoid the pitfalls, some are mentioned in the manual),e.g.like not having a big & close object in view, which can really 'blast out' that object& completely darken the exposure of the rest of the view).
24/09/2019
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