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Short history of the trail-camera
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<blockquote data-quote="Hunter 257W" data-source="post: 5024185" data-attributes="member: 12277"><p>I bought 5 of the - I Think - "Trail Timer" brand devices like Mike Belt mentioned that used a thread across a trail to stop a little timer at the time the thread was pulled out of the little box. Then they came up with an infrared model that timed up to 5 events. It was crude and surprisingly had 5 of the same cheap little digital clocks in it that the thread triggered model did. Each event would stop one of the clocks so you could tell when something had crossing in front of it. OF course you never knew if it was a deer or not. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>When that same company - "Trail Timer" brought out a film camera I got 2 of them. I recall paying $150 each but that was true wholesale back when having a FFL could really get you wholesale on all kinds of sporting goods besides guns. This was in the Fall of 2004. These were homebuilt obviously as they were a standard camera with a wire harness added that was mounted inside a hinged box and held in place with foam. One of them worked great and the other was very finicky. I recall sending it back for a rework and I could tell I was dealing with a very small company based on the way the emails read when corresponding about the repairs. Still that one never worked as well as the other and finally quit. The other was stolen in August 2008. It was getting hard to find a place to develop film by then anyhow so it wasn't much of a loss really. </p><p></p><p>My 1st digital camera was a huge disappointment. I got something like 300 pictures in one week and was fired up to see all the deer that I would never have seen when limited to only 36 exposures on a roll of film. Got to the computer and the danged camera had about 300 pictures of nothing but the woods. It had a trigger time of about 7 hours. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>I've had various different cheap Chinese cameras since then and most worked from fair to pretty good. Some didn't work at all right out of the box. The worst of the lot that did work gave only 3 weeks battery life with 6 C batteries and the pictures were very grainy. It didn't matter how many pictures it took either, the batteries lasted 3 weeks. Thankfully it got stolen too. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> The 3 Browning's I bought this past year are the best so far by a long shot. Ease of use, battery life, quality of picture, trigger sensitivity and time are all outstanding by my standards. These are the "Good ol Days" of trail cameras right now if you ask me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hunter 257W, post: 5024185, member: 12277"] I bought 5 of the - I Think - "Trail Timer" brand devices like Mike Belt mentioned that used a thread across a trail to stop a little timer at the time the thread was pulled out of the little box. Then they came up with an infrared model that timed up to 5 events. It was crude and surprisingly had 5 of the same cheap little digital clocks in it that the thread triggered model did. Each event would stop one of the clocks so you could tell when something had crossing in front of it. OF course you never knew if it was a deer or not. :) When that same company - "Trail Timer" brought out a film camera I got 2 of them. I recall paying $150 each but that was true wholesale back when having a FFL could really get you wholesale on all kinds of sporting goods besides guns. This was in the Fall of 2004. These were homebuilt obviously as they were a standard camera with a wire harness added that was mounted inside a hinged box and held in place with foam. One of them worked great and the other was very finicky. I recall sending it back for a rework and I could tell I was dealing with a very small company based on the way the emails read when corresponding about the repairs. Still that one never worked as well as the other and finally quit. The other was stolen in August 2008. It was getting hard to find a place to develop film by then anyhow so it wasn't much of a loss really. My 1st digital camera was a huge disappointment. I got something like 300 pictures in one week and was fired up to see all the deer that I would never have seen when limited to only 36 exposures on a roll of film. Got to the computer and the danged camera had about 300 pictures of nothing but the woods. It had a trigger time of about 7 hours. :) I've had various different cheap Chinese cameras since then and most worked from fair to pretty good. Some didn't work at all right out of the box. The worst of the lot that did work gave only 3 weeks battery life with 6 C batteries and the pictures were very grainy. It didn't matter how many pictures it took either, the batteries lasted 3 weeks. Thankfully it got stolen too. :) The 3 Browning's I bought this past year are the best so far by a long shot. Ease of use, battery life, quality of picture, trigger sensitivity and time are all outstanding by my standards. These are the "Good ol Days" of trail cameras right now if you ask me. [/QUOTE]
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