wtnhunt Posted July 20, 2014 Report Share Posted July 20, 2014 Had been running this ir camera at our mineral site http://www.moultriefeeders.com/m-880i-mini-game-camera, just swapped over to my homebrew cam which is a flash camera and will pull that card probably next weekend. The moultrie is a $170 retail camera, not exactly a low end model. I did not pay that much for it, would be mad if I did given the performance. Setting at 10 second delay and 3 shot burst set at the highest resolution setting. Performance has been the same since new, camera was put out with brand new duracells so batteries are not the issue and with a sandisk 8 gb sdhc cards, cards fit moultries suggested so should not be a write speed issue. Getting several hind end pics, leading me to question the under second trigger time the manufacturer suggests. Also noticing several pics with does looking directly at the camera at night, the discussion in the other thread I recently posted about the "trade off" in regards to sacrificing pic quality to have an ir "undetected" camera. Representative of the pic quality, biggest issue I have is that you really just cannot tell really what you are looking at. I mean I think the one may be a decent deer considering it is just July. This group is coming around the camera/minerals at least once a week the last few pulls, will see if that changes with the placement of the flash cam. If all were like this the detail might be better. Maybe a setting I can change? Maybe even change to video mode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted July 22, 2014 Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 I've seen some good pics from Moultrie and some ok pics from Moultrie. Never had one myself. All I have now are 2 spypoints and 3 homebrews. Spypoint IR5 takes nice pics, the I6 I got sent back because it wasn't as good, they replaced it for free, pics are ok during day, night IR get some blur. Your moultrie takes some nice IR night shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted July 22, 2014 Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 I've seen some good pics from Moultrie and some ok pics from Moultrie. Never had one myself. All I have now are 2 spypoints and 3 homebrews. Spypoint IR5 takes nice pics, the I6 I got sent back because it wasn't as good, they replaced it for free, pics are ok during day, night IR get some blur. Your moultrie takes some nice IR night shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted July 24, 2014 Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 Not bad William. I'm with you though, not sure if be happy with 170 on that one. I'm actually need a couple new cams this year. Lay one I got was a truth can blackout. Was impressed with it for the money but it crapped out after two seasons of only moderate time in the field. Any suggestions are welcome. I like the infrared flash with the filter. I almost never had deer look at the filtered ir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Here's my $0.02 William. The IR pics appear to be OK to me. The color pics appear to be a camera placement issue. It looks like your camera is set where the light is brighter than where the mineral lick is under the tree cover. Due to this, the camera has switched over to daylight color pics but the available light is still too low to capture the deer in the lower light area under the cover. You may be able to solve this problem by simply setting the camera in a lower light area. That way it will stay on IR mode until the light is bright enough under the cover for daylight pics. Another thing...I find it extremely helpful to have software in my computer that allows me to brighten images. This is especially helpful for deer that are a bit too far away in low light or at night...be it IR pics or flash pics. I have a Sony program that came with my digital camera I use on my desktop. My laptop is a Mac Book and the iPhoto program in it already has the means to brighten or enhance images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Thanks for the insight there Al. Don't know though, getting some blurry daylight pics even during midday with that camera. I have used that tree or the maple across from it for cameras for a very long time, never had these issues with my homebrews on those trees. I put that moultrie 880 on my scrapeline spot where i usually get some good activity, we will see how it does there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 William...hope for your sake it does good at the new spot. For the record...I've never owned a moultrie cam. Have a good friend that has one & it's not high on my list compared to others I prefer. Still hope you look into some photo software for your computer. You'd be surprised what you'll discover using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 Hope we get better results there too Al. I bought the 55 first off of ebay. Had an issue with it and sent it in and moultrie had it back to me inside the same week. Was impressed enough with that quick service that i went forward with the more expensive 880. I may be expecting to much on pic quality. Did expect better than the old leaf river dc2bu though. Bought one of them when they first came out however long ago that was and it took tens of thousands of pics from that spot before i got the homebrew building bug. I have several photo editing programs, but only one i currently have loaded is part of Microsoft office utility. I can lighten but don't gain any detail. Actually time for a new computer. Not sure what i have on discs are going to be compatible with these new os's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthGaHuntingandOutdoors Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 Just made a new thread on homebrews. How much difficulty did you have making yours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted August 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 With 2 weeks worth of pics and comparable number of nighttime images as the ir unit gonna call the difference in nighttime activity inconclusive at this point. The bachelor group has had a sequence of pics and did not seem bothered too much by the flash. Daytime activity at the minerals seems to have picked up quite a bit since swapping the cams, surprising with the heat. The pic quality is not much contest, the moultrie is supposed to have nearly double the mp count. Uploaded pics to photobucket and it is down now, go figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted August 7, 2014 Report Share Posted August 7, 2014 Yep...no comparison William. Just goes to show you that mp count doesn't always mean better quality pics. BTW...I noticed the same thing when comparing a Bushnell cam my buddy has to our Reconyx cams. Bushnell has bigger mp count too but not quite the quality in the pics as the Reconyx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shainayap08 Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 (edited) Overall, the pics you had taken are very good. Last month my cam took over hundred pics but it work only 24 pics. PS. It's my latest trail camera I bought last month. Edited October 23, 2014 by shainayap08 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted March 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2015 Thanks for the insight there Al. Don't know though, getting some blurry daylight pics even during midday with that camera. I have used that tree or the maple across from it for cameras for a very long time, never had these issues with my homebrews on those trees. I put that moultrie 880 on my scrapeline spot where i usually get some good activity, we will see how it does there. After looking back, the placement did make a difference for that moultrie camera. Don't know how well that camera would have performed inside a woods. It did much better on that scrapeline where it was under limbs facing out at a narrow strip of open. That was where it ended up staying and is still there now. The prior placement at the mineral site was partially shaded, likely the camera was unable to process mixed light and shade on that inside corner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted March 27, 2015 Report Share Posted March 27, 2015 Glad you figured out how to avoid that problem, when you can William. Obviously that situation is a bigger problem during the full foliage time of the year. I've had similar issues like that before. I use a photo program I have to manipulate the pictures whenever I have to in order to see details. It works but it takes time doing that to each picture that has to be enhanced, lightened, or whatever that's better spent going through all the pictures and then getting them organized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billkay Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 You guys are right, not all pixels are created equal. If that were the case I'd be trading my 14mp DSLR's in for that 36mp cell phone... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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