Reviews
Excellent Trail Cam - MUCH better than my prior one!
This kf concept Trailcam is actually our second model. The first one I left outside 24X7 to capture wild animals walking through our yard. Many of our neighbors have picked up bobcats, coyotes, foxes, and other critters of the night. We mostly had a wild boar problem, and that's pretty much all our old camera ever captured, with the exception of occasional rabbits and an armadillo one time. I was able to keep it up all the time because I had a solar panel that kept it powered up during the day, so the batteries only needed to come online at night. Finally, however, it succumbed to the harsh Florida weather and became completely inoperable.
We were without a trailcam for a while, since we ended up finally installing a fence to keep the wild boars away, so I figured there wouldn't be much to capture in terms of wildlife anyway. But when I saw this kf concept on kf concept it looked like a really good camera, so I decided to take the plunge into wild animal surveying (or attempted surveying) again to see what visitors we get at night. One of the features that drew me to this model was the two-lens, two-camera design. One of the cameras is optimized for daytime use, and the other for night duty. The night camera in particular works extremely well! Our old camera didn't IR illuminate the area particularly well, so the pictures we DID get were pretty dark and poor quality. But this one produces MUCH better images at night.
The first night I set it up inside my house to see what kind of activity it would pick up from our cats. I included one of the photos from that night to demonstrate the clarity of the images. A few nights later I set it up on a tree outside. Although no animals came to call that night, it was kind of windy so it did trigger on some debris blowing by its field of view. Even being outside the IR light source shone MUCH further than our old camera, and it also was able to pick up a fair amount of ambient light which was surprising as the old one never really did - everything beyond the IR illumination was just black.
The night camera is capable of up to 1080P HD resolution, but the daytime one goes up to 4K. The 4K is very smooth and clear, which is a huge step forward from our old camera. Although that one was supposedly 4K, it was almost unusable as it dropped a ton of frames from the videos, essentially forcing me to use the 1080P resolution anyway. The final big improvement over our old camera that I'll mention is in the download time of photos and videos. The old one took two minutes or more to download a single 1080P video from the camera to my cell phone (using the free app), while the kf concept does the same job in just a few seconds. This is a huge leap in usability! There are other improvements also, but suffice it to say that the new camera is better than the old in just about every way!
I mentioned some features of this trailcam, such as the twin camera setup, the wifi, and the very good night illumination. In addition to those, the feature set includes 3 motion sensors to cover a wide area, a very flexible ability to configure the cameras to shoot photos, videos, or both, as well as the duration of video to shoot and the number of photos it will capture when the motion sensors are triggered. There is also a time-lapse mode which records videos composed of individual frames taken a user-selectable interval apart. This gives you really cool shots of sunrises, sunsets, the clouds whizzing by overhead, etc.
In the box is included a 32GB memory card for storing photos and videos, a durable woven nylon strap for mounting the camera to a tree or fence post, and even 4AA alkaline batteries to power the unit. Please note that the camera will accept either 4 or 8 batteries. 4 is the minimum, but using 8 gives a much longer runtime for the camera. I personally only use 4, since I've got the solar panel which I was very pleased to learn that it is 100% compatible with this new camera: same voltage, same size connector, same polarity on the input jack as the old one.
This is definitely a five-star - plus product. Highly recommended!
We were without a trailcam for a while, since we ended up finally installing a fence to keep the wild boars away, so I figured there wouldn't be much to capture in terms of wildlife anyway. But when I saw this kf concept on kf concept it looked like a really good camera, so I decided to take the plunge into wild animal surveying (or attempted surveying) again to see what visitors we get at night. One of the features that drew me to this model was the two-lens, two-camera design. One of the cameras is optimized for daytime use, and the other for night duty. The night camera in particular works extremely well! Our old camera didn't IR illuminate the area particularly well, so the pictures we DID get were pretty dark and poor quality. But this one produces MUCH better images at night.
The first night I set it up inside my house to see what kind of activity it would pick up from our cats. I included one of the photos from that night to demonstrate the clarity of the images. A few nights later I set it up on a tree outside. Although no animals came to call that night, it was kind of windy so it did trigger on some debris blowing by its field of view. Even being outside the IR light source shone MUCH further than our old camera, and it also was able to pick up a fair amount of ambient light which was surprising as the old one never really did - everything beyond the IR illumination was just black.
The night camera is capable of up to 1080P HD resolution, but the daytime one goes up to 4K. The 4K is very smooth and clear, which is a huge step forward from our old camera. Although that one was supposedly 4K, it was almost unusable as it dropped a ton of frames from the videos, essentially forcing me to use the 1080P resolution anyway. The final big improvement over our old camera that I'll mention is in the download time of photos and videos. The old one took two minutes or more to download a single 1080P video from the camera to my cell phone (using the free app), while the kf concept does the same job in just a few seconds. This is a huge leap in usability! There are other improvements also, but suffice it to say that the new camera is better than the old in just about every way!
I mentioned some features of this trailcam, such as the twin camera setup, the wifi, and the very good night illumination. In addition to those, the feature set includes 3 motion sensors to cover a wide area, a very flexible ability to configure the cameras to shoot photos, videos, or both, as well as the duration of video to shoot and the number of photos it will capture when the motion sensors are triggered. There is also a time-lapse mode which records videos composed of individual frames taken a user-selectable interval apart. This gives you really cool shots of sunrises, sunsets, the clouds whizzing by overhead, etc.
In the box is included a 32GB memory card for storing photos and videos, a durable woven nylon strap for mounting the camera to a tree or fence post, and even 4AA alkaline batteries to power the unit. Please note that the camera will accept either 4 or 8 batteries. 4 is the minimum, but using 8 gives a much longer runtime for the camera. I personally only use 4, since I've got the solar panel which I was very pleased to learn that it is 100% compatible with this new camera: same voltage, same size connector, same polarity on the input jack as the old one.
This is definitely a five-star - plus product. Highly recommended!
11/03/2023