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MP6 for $100 - no

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In my opinion, red IR flash cameras aren't worth buying anymore now that decent black flash cameras can be had for $100 - $120.

I'm stuck with about 12 red IR flash trail cameras that I wish I had never bought.
 
Vermin93 said:
MP6 for $100 - no

MP6 Black for $115 - absolutely

In my opinion, red IR flash cameras aren't worth buying anymore now that decent black flash cameras can be had for $100 - $120.

I'm stuck with about 12 red IR flash trail cameras that I wish I had never bought.
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Agreed.
 
Vermin93 said:
MP6 for $100 - no

MP6 Black for $115 - absolutely

In my opinion, red IR flash cameras aren't worth buying anymore now that decent black flash cameras can be had for $100 - $120.

I'm stuck with about 12 red IR flash trail cameras that I wish I had never bought.
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do you want to sell any of your ir cams cheap?
 
Hillbilly Hunter said:
Vermin93 said:
MP6 for $100 - no

MP6 Black for $115 - absolutely

In my opinion, red IR flash cameras aren't worth buying anymore now that decent black flash cameras can be had for $100 - $120.

I'm stuck with about 12 red IR flash trail cameras that I wish I had never bought.
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do you want to sell any of your ir cams cheap?
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I'm going to keep them until they all die. I bought special trail cam mounts so that I can place them 10 feet up a tree and angle them down so the deer don't see the red IR flash. Too much time and money invested in them. Some of them I only run in the day time so that the flash never goes off.
 
Daytime pics are great! Night pics suck.Miss my color nite pics but really like the long battery life.Give up a little and gain a little.
 
gladeshunter said:
Mr.Bro said:
Daytime pics are great! Night pics suck.Miss my color nite pics but really like the long battery life.Give up a little and gain a little.
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Anybody else feel this way about the night pics?
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Compared to a white-flash camera--which takes color night pictures illuminated with bright white light--or an IR cam--which takes highly illuminated black and white pictures at night--a black-flash cam's night pictures ARE of poorer quality. Digital imagers aren't very sensitive to true infra-red light, hence the illumination distances are shorter (especially with the Covert MP6, which only has 40 black LEDs), and the aperture must stay open longer to allow more light to the imager--which causes moving objects to be blurred. But it's one of those "lose something to gain something" sort of situations. You lose night-time illumination distance and image quality to gain a lack of deer avoidance of the flash.

However, there are some ways to reduce the night image problems. First, get cameras with more black LEDs, like the Covert Black 60 (60 LEDs instead of 40). In addition, black-flash flash extenders can be used to get much greater illumination distances. Although night-picture motion blur will always be a problem with black-flash until someone invents a digital imager that is highly sensitive to infra-red light.
 
I have 2 Covert MP6 cameras and I like em, very clear daytime pics and night. For around $100 they are well worth it. Great battery life and user friendly.

I still use some white flash cameras now.. I like my color photos especially on scrapes.. I know some deer get spooky on the flashes from IR and white flash...and some pay it no attention. But I don't tend to hunt real close to where these cameras are. I don't think mature deer completely leave the farm. But they may avoid that smaller area around the cameras, IF they come through the area on a regular basis. All I need is one pic of him anyways...

I think camera noise plays a big part in deer looking at the camera also..
 
I have the black 60 and the special ops. sometimes the black 60 night pics are blurry but the special ops , it takes great night time pics even when the deer is running
 
Nealmeally said:
I still use some white flash cameras now.. I like my color photos especially on scrapes.. I know some deer get spooky on the flashes from IR and white flash...and some pay it no attention. But I don't tend to hunt real close to where these cameras are. I don't think mature deer completely leave the farm.
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I know of no situation where visibly flashed deer "leave the farm." Deer just avoid the area where they've been flashed, and that may mean simply walking around behind the camera instead of in front of it. If all you need is one photograph to know a specific deer is around, white-flash will certainly do the trick, and will produce a much better picture of the deer.
 
BSK said:
I know of no situation where visibly flashed deer "leave the farm." Deer just avoid the area where they've been flashed, and that may mean simply walking around behind the camera instead of in front of it.
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Ain't that the truth. Last fall I put up a red flash camera at waist level to monitor a well worn trail going into a bedding area. I came back 3 weeks later and had a few deer on camera - but they were only on camera during the first week. The pictures indicated that most of the deer saw the camera during the day or the red flash during the night. They quickly started a new trail about 5 yards behind the tree that my camera was on. It was clear they just didn't want that camera looking at them.
 

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