Never bought into the early no flash or infra red cameras. First digital cam i bought was a leaf river, when they first came out. Then went on to build several homebrews with sony cameras.
I have become a huge user of t-posts and t-post camera mounts for my trail-cams. No more trying to find the right tree to hang the cam on.
I have an entire closet filled with boxes of physical pictures from photo-censuses. Tens of thousands of them. Walmart and Kroger film development people knew me on a first-name basis.
Great for "dummy cam" use, mounted at entry points, gates, etc in an effort to deter unwanted guests.
I use those as dummy security cams in locations trespassers are more likely. I'll put them right in plain sight on the property line under a posted sign or next to one of these signs. Periodically or if I find signs a neighbor is getting curious I'll hang a working cam up high or in a sneaky spot to get a pic to give the sheriff. It's amazing how much less curious folks get when the LEOs pay a visit with a pic of their mug on the wrong side of the property line.
I also had some Leaf River cams and at the time, thought they were the cat's meow.
The Leaf River cams were the bomb.
Non-typical made the first mass-produced hacked camera production trail-cameras. They were great. I had a bunch of them. Then they got bought out and the name changed to Cuddeback. They've been crap ever since. They still take terrible pictures.
Actually, their images now seem at least ok.
Perhaps my clients are still using older models. Whenever I get a series of photo census trail-cam pictures that are fuzzy, invariably I look in the lower left corner of the images and will see "Cuddeback."
