Needed to get something more serious for photo and video use. This thing is versatile with a bunch of configuration options. It's well made and solid.

I've used this for all photo needs - its a breeze to use, very sturdy and compact

An excellent choice for photo and video

You can't have your video's or snapshots download directly to your photo gallery on your smart device like some other security cameras. It makes you go through Google photos first then you can download to your pc or smart devise. I have a different camera also and you can set it up to automatically download any images/videos to it's own folder in your photo gallery. I have emailed them and asked them why it won't let you and no reply from them. Besides that it is an amazing camera great quality and the zoom is perfect. I wish it had an IR feature, that would definitely top it off in my opinion.

This is the fifth trail camera I have owned, so I have some experience with some different versions. This one probably has the best instruction manual I have seen - not only is it a good size and the print large enough to read without a magnifying glass, it is well written. But even then, the manual is hardly needed - I set up most of the settings on the camera after installing the battery and memory card without even having to reference the manual except for a couple of settings (to be sure I knew what they meant).

It takes very good photos and video - I have posted examples of both. It has yet to trip the detector at night. But even on the medium sensitivity setting during the day, it did capture a cat walking past about 20 to 25 feet away from the camera. I have some other cameras that sometimes don't trip that reliably when a human walks by. So high marks on sensitivity and clarity of photos and video - at least in the light. The microphone is perhaps not as sensitive on this camera as some others, but then it also does not seem to pick up significant wind noise either - which I would say is a good thing. Just note you may have to increase volume when listening for things that are not all that close to the camera.

Much like other cameras of this type, I have it set to take 3 photos then video. And in that type of setting, it captures the photos first, THEN starts recording. So if you want to capture more on video and earlier, do one photo and then video or just set it for video. I added a photo and video showing when the photo first captures and you can see how the video started later (granted there were two photos in between there). But tripping the detector seems to happen pretty early and does well.

On that note, and helpfully, this camera did not trip every time the wind blew the leaves on trees, as occurred with another camera I have. So this one - to date anyway - has only captured people and animals walking though, not any and all motion that happens to occur in the frame, which is nice. Then I do not have to sort through hundreds of "leaves moving on the trees" photos and videos to find the ones that have something important on it.

I do not have any infrared photos or videos yet - I was hoping to catch some coyote/ pheasant / possum / rabbit as we do have those come through our property in other areas. No such luck yet here, but if/when I get some, I will post and update the review to include that experience.

Very good camera so far. Time will tell how it does in more severe weather conditions and in infrared.

I find this filter ideal for photo and video. But at 10mm on my 80D Crop captUKr it casts a shadow over it. When I zoom a pUK like 14mm it disappears. NO X, no coulUKr dominant. Excellent filter... As advertised. and nice build...

I find this filter ideal for photo and video.
But at 10mm on my 80D Crop captUKr it casts a shadow over it.
When I zoom a pUK like 14mm it disappears.

NO X, no coulUKr dominant. Excellent filter... As advertised. and nice build...

Purchased this camera to solve the mystery of what was getting into our chicken coop. Mounted it to one of the coop walls using the enclosed mount (which is very handy). This thing is a battery hog (8AAs if you want the extended duration). Set it to video only mode (like that it gives you the options to go with video only, video and photo or photo only). The next day we were super pleased at the quality of the video and it did capture our intruder (a ground hog) not to mention several mice. Sorry to not have included some stills of the video or pics (too rushed to do so). Just pop the micro SD out of the camera and into the laptop for review. Overall, it was pretty simple to use and does the job very well. Only pet peeve is that the switch to turn it on or off requires you to open case and get under the cam to find it but a small trade off for making it water resistant. Have only had it for about 3 mos so cant speak to its longevity or durability in weather but did what I needed it to.