Trailcamera Guide
Note that this "Guide" was written by their own experiences and thoughts about trailcamera function in practical use. Everything that is written is just my own opinions and are not guaranteed free from error.
I have used cameras on carrion plus baits for predator and the observation of different species of wildlife trails, feed, salt blocks, etc.
The problems with different cameras have become extra clear to me through my varied use of the cameras. I also see it as an advantage that the climate in northern Sweden gave a little extra variety of problems and also place high demands on equipment that is resistant to cold.
My personal lesson is that carrion camera delivers incredible performance varied depending on the make and model but also to their management play a major role in the outcome. Over time, I have found out what features the camera carrion which must work really well for it to have a reasonable chance of working well.
I have also studied the different cameras I myself have not used and also read the results of tests and looking at other users' images and writings on various forums, etc. Once you've learned what is important in a camera should be good so it is quite easily through this kind of information screen out cameras that do not have enough capacity to cope with a bit more advanced uses.
Have you yourself had time to try both cameras really bad and really good cameras, so it becomes even easier to understand all the information from which features are good on different manufacturers' cameras and which ones are bad.
My idea is to try to give some tips and advice for people facing the purchase of carrion camera so that you may avoid choosing the wrong baits camera and be disappointed.
What will you use the camera to the carrion
Only for pig baits, moose and deer = less important which camera you choose, because the animals are large and most cameras, regardless of quality rörelsedetektorns able to detect them.
But a camera with poor PIR sensor also takes far fewer pictures because the animal often have to go far in towards the center of the picture before the motion is detected and the camera is triggered.
To clean carrion surveillance camera need not be so quick to shoot, to work, but a slow camera automatically gives many more empty images when the animals often have time to pass before a shot is taken. And who knows, maybe it was a big boar you missed to get the picture several times in a row.
So it may well be worth thinking through these less before choosing the camera with PIR sensor bad and slow shooting even if you "just" shoot the pig, etc. These cameras works, but not me! The result is fewer images and a higher number of empty images.
All-round camera
Want to shoot foxes, badgers, weasels, birds, deer and wild plus baits on trails and everything that goes to shoot with a camera carrion to know more about the populations in your hunting area. If so, you must select the camera with much more care because this provides much greater demands on the camera's features.
For you to have more than "stray images" on smaller animals such as fox, etc. require that the camera has a PIR sensor that is sensitive and that it is really fast to "wake up" and take photographs.
When you set these requirements on the camera seems incredible number of marks is removed immediately. Please note that all cameras are lucky and sometimes feel small animals, but if you want a camera that is good, fast and does a good job. Then you need to choose the right, and then you have only a few cameras which to choose. Most are expensive brands but there is no single brand that is affordable and yet very quick to shoot and has a good adjustable sensor detection range widely.
Flash or IR light
The usual camera flash gives you some nice night pictures with good color and sharpness. But if you choose a camera with flash so expect that it definitely scares the animals much more than one with infrared light.
And in most cases, even want to document the animals as often as possible without interfering.
An animal does not like the flash might change their behavior and stop to visit the site.
The flash shows also clear to all where your camera is mounted, visible from afar at night. This greatly increases the risk that your camera is stolen or otherwise unnecessary tampering occurs.
Another drawback of flash cameras is that they can not shoot at night because of the lack of constant illumination. Filming with carrion camera can be very fun and rewarding and gives you completely new opportunities to see how the animals behave in the bait than still images.
But it is only a few "nice" pictures you want, so the animals can flash the camera to be a good choice. And some animals do not react in any significant way for the lightning. But as all-around camera, it's a much worse choice than a camera with infrared light and should be completely avoided.
Infrared light
A camera with infrared illumination for most users the best choice because of:
• scare the animals much smaller
• much less visible to unauthorized
• can also shoot at night, etc..
Note that all cameras that shoot with the help of infrared light only take black and white images at night!
Among the manufacturers of carrion cameras equipped with infrared light, there are many different solutions and ways of thinking about what they want to achieve and prioritize with infrared lights on their camera models.
It should be taken into account, for the camera to operate effectively, the infrared beam reach and visibility of the game, and the camera's power consumption when the infrared light is activated.
Many of the manufacturers of carrion cameras with infrared illumination appears to have chosen to "settle" with the camera's light enough for 10-15 meters and then fade out.
This choice probably depends on the manufacturers believe that "animals" are usually well within the distance and the images are good enough to clearly show which animals are on place. And if you used the camera carrion active for a long time yourself so you will notice quickly that it is true. The animals are often in just a few meters from the camera at a right artificial baits and well placed camera. The same applies even when the camera is placed at a wildlife trail. IR illumination should also be reasonably the same case with the PIR sensor's range. To have an infrared light that is so strong that it highlights the objectives beyond the sensor's range is hard to defend, power consumption increases substantially more than the currency you get for the extra visibility meters.
Another reason that most manufacturers have chosen not to make the infrared light is probably stronger to stronger infrared lighting requires a significantly higher number of diodes in order to become a "major" difference in scope. A clear direct result of a high number of LEDs is that the camera consumes a lot more power. And high power consumption affects negatively the use of a variety of ways.
A carrion camera that is easy to move and provide high reliability for long periods without the need to use car battery for operation, must be incredibly energy efficient design.
To find the energy-efficient camera can not focus simply on Standby time specified by the manufacturer. You should also look at what the manufacturer for consumption when taking pictures with and without infrared light. Otherwise, buy a camera that consume too much power to the night and the images can not sit out long periods.
The sad thing is then when you get to the bait after two weeks and the camera was even on the power for several days. Then you have needlessly lost any important information you might want for your weekend game.
The largest real noticeable increase in power consumption is to film the night with a camera equipped with a high number of infrared diodes; when infrared light is constantly lit during the filming camera's batteries quickly drained of power and of course, as the camera stops working. The same dullness again, you are missed several days of data are unnecessarily!
To avoid this problem, some manufacturers with high number of LEDs chosen to severely limit the camera's ability to film at night for only 5 seconds per clip. This obviously means that the camera's movie options are very limited and almost entirely useless to use in a good way. In my opinion, a typical example of the different priorities are not weighed against one another to give you the customer a good final product.
A better solution would be if you used a completion rate of the camera with a movable external infrared lighting connected to the camera if necessary.
The largest exchange, you select a camera that has good balance between the infrared light camera capabilities and energy consumption, there are cameras that are able to sit out several weeks while taking several thousand pictures.
The range of the camera's infrared light is also influenced by the type of diodes that use the camera. The visibility of infrared light for the game is different between different manufacturers' cameras and will depend on the type of diodes used and also what strength there is in the individual diode.
Cameras with an infrared light that has low visibility of the game tend to produce images that are a bit less precise cameras than there are not invisible as much of a priority even if the lighting in their reach as far.
Often it is not a big problem with the game perceive infrared light a little, but some animals are shy reacts to light and can completely avoid the place with the camera or just turn out to single images at a distance.
A brand that is known for its long range of the infrared light is Moultrie, and the picture quality at night is fine from these cameras. But the bright light can instead tends to expose the animals at close range and provide strong "white hot". Some users also feel that the animals react to a lot of infrared light from these cameras.
If you consider and weigh these points, battery consumption, movie opportunities, the infrared beam visibility and range of "normal shooting distance" so it becomes easier to not own the priority range, but instead settle for a light covering the immediate area and instead allows the camera works well as a whole.
It is often said that one should not go over the river to fetch water, and a bit so it is with the use of baits camera with infrared light. The animals are close enough if you yourself made the right and therefore need to be in the majority of cases no one "over the strong" lighting effect that could frighten some animals.
PIR Sensor
All cameras are equipped with PIR sensor. The idea is that PIR-sensor in a given area must respond to motion and heat and then trigger the camera to photograph the animal.
Most cameras have a sensor that senses both heat and motion, in order to minimize "false alarms" for the camera.
To completely avoid false detection of a PIR sensor, however, is impossible. Some weather, quickly rising sun, etc. makes it inevitable that the camera sometimes think that the animals do not look there.
A branch with leaves that quickly warmed by the rising sun, while swaying in the wind is enough for most cameras to be triggered.
A camera that does it is probably very slow even when there is a false alarm, but an animal.
PIR sensor's capabilities and scope are also affected by temperature conditions. The basic rule is that the more the distinction between ambient temperature and the animal's body heat, the more easily and at a distance can see the camera case.
If it is + 5 degrees out so the camera sees, therefore, an animal from a distance than if it is +23 degrees. So theoretically, all animals easier to detect in the winter of carrion camera!
In practice the difference is less pronounced, a fox, for example, winter has an incredibly thick fur as a highly effective lock body heat. All animals may be thicker fur / feathers in the winter cold while also quickly cool the little radiation there.
So on balance, conditions range between summer and winter right unchanged.
The sensor is the camera's most important component because it controls all the shooting and thus determines the camera becomes effective.
A camera that is working well need a PIR sensor with a wide and long detection area in front of the camera.
The PIR sensor detection range, there must be many points of detection and the scope should be extended to around 15 meters.
The sensor should preferably be adjustable for sensitivity to one another to be able to control what the camera and shoot in the sector.
Unfortunately, the market's cameras have a wide variation in quality at PIR sensor's function.
This means that many of the cameras has a very uncertain task when it comes to a bit smaller animals, foxes, etc.
Precisely for this reason, the PIR sensor, the function you should investigate thoroughly before making your choice of camera, otherwise it is easy to sit with you a camera that you use after an understanding is almost completely useless for everything except large animals pig , elk and deer, because of their poor PIR sensor.
Although the camera function when used to shoot large animals are adversely affected by a sensor that has a narrow detection area with a low number avkänningspunkter.
Such a camera is missing animals who stay in the picture's edge due. the PIR sensor does not react until the animal is almost in the center of the image. With a little luck you'll see how most carrion material decreases.
If you choose the right camera so you can place a camera that gives you an incredible opportunity to effectively and document the shoot you want to hunt the area regardless of the size of the animal.
The camera quality of PIR-sensor controller also very clearly result in a completely different way.
If the PIR sensor detects the animal is so late, the risk that the animal time to pass in front of the camera and out of the picture very much.
This is because all the carrion cameras need a moment in which to "wake up" and then take the picture after the camera detects movement.
Generally speaking the more expensive camera you buy the faster the wake to life and takes the picture. However, there is no single inexpensive brand that is very close to the more expensive cameras and is incredibly affordable.
Most "cheap" cameras need a minimum of three seconds and up to wake up and shoot.
When you know this, and then add the PIR sensor in many brands usually do not react until it reaches the center of the image so it becomes easy to understand why many images are "empty" even though the camera is activated and photographed.
Choosing a camera is not made easier by the PIR-jungle, but you can base your decision on what you should use the camera to.
Should you only use the camera to shoot large animals and carrion, then works almost all the cameras 'working', regardless of the PIR sensor.
A camera with poor PIR sensor, however, guaranteed a lesser number of images and more number of empty images, than with a good sensor. In addition, the camera misses with poor PIR sensor almost all small animals visits carrion.
If you want a camera that is capable of monitoring wildlife trails plus baits, etc. for both small and large animals, so you start by avoiding all bad with cameras PIR sensor and slowly waking up before the shooting.
If the camera is sufficiently fast to shoot, to be successful at the game, the paths of movement is detected wake up and take the first picture in 1.5 seconds. Only a few expensive and very few cheap cameras can do this in practice.
Then you should also check how fast the camera is on to extract / save the captured image and be ready to take the next picture. It is not uncommon for a delay of 10 seconds and upwards. A good camera is ready to reload in under 5 seconds. The same applies here, generally, is that cheap cameras are slower than expensive to perform this, there is an exception!
Image Quality
It must be pointed out that the infrared camera working baits and its economy to create good images with high quality and sharpness are quite different from a regular camera.
• Trailcameras constantly forced to work from a fixed focus and only with the available light to help.
• The shutter speed must also always be extremely fast to avoid motion blur on moving animals.
This makes the image quality significantly influenced by the prevailing light ratio.
Sunny days will give you nice pictures with good colors and sharpness, etc., gray and cloudy days reduce both the sharpness and color reproduction of the images.
Of course, it still differs between different brands image quality because of other technical stuff and it is certainly worthwhile to compare images from different cameras before choosing camera.
At night with infrared lights, the same thing: the image is created in the shortest possible time to get rid of motion blur.
If you have a camera that is adjustable between, for example, 3MP and 5MP at night so you can actually get better pictures in 3MP mode is precisely because the image is smaller in size and created faster.
Other technical specifications / variations
The difference in the adjustment varies between different camera brands.
Much of this has less impact on the outcome of your use, but there are still some things you should think well over.
Setting Option for multiple images in a row? Can take 1-3 pictures in a row or even more at one time? And what does this have for practical significance for me as a user?
In order to determine whether it matters or not if the camera can take up to nine images in a series, we must also consider the PIR sensor's sensitivity and even if the camera is quick to "wake up" and take the first picture.
A camera is not fast and made to take a sequence of nine pictures when movement is detected will often take 9 pieces of blank images to no avail!
This will only result in irritation and the camera also consumes unnecessary memory and battery power alone unnecessarily.
A camera that is not good PIR sensor and wake up slowly and also is not ready to take the next picture within 10 seconds works best set to shoot a few pictures at a time when every movement.
Cameras of this "kind" works best as pure baits camera and should absolutely not be used for shooting at game trails.
Delay between pictures
All baits cameras have an adjustable delay between the image / picture series. With the delay, I mean the time you want to elapse after the camera detects motion and took a picture / pictures until the camera will re-activate the PIR sensor.
The delay time is indicated with a shortest possible time and is then stegbar up on time.
It is the minimum time you should look in particular at. Important in this context is also PIR sensor quality and the camera is as fast as possible to shoot at movement.
Many brands have a minimum delay of 30 seconds and upwards while a few cameras can be set from 1 second upwards.
A camera (Q) as it is possible to set really short delay time and also have good PIR sensor, shoot quickly and soon becomes clear to the next image, gives you much better than a camera (E) that contrast can be set to take a greater number of images in sequence but which have poor PIR and long delay between images.
The camera (Q) will make every effort to capture more animals in the picture while taking small pictures that are unnecessarily empty.
The camera (Q) detects motion, takes the picture after about one seconds; unpack the image to the SD card, activate the PIR sensor detects motion and again taking the next picture - there are about 6 seconds. Camera (Z) detects a movement, take a picture within three seconds, unpack the image to the SD card and take the next picture in the series - 13 seconds after first picture? The camera (Q) is an even faster pace when it is set to burst, time shrinks to about 4 seconds as it avoid detection.
Of course, it may take longer when there is a new detection but empty images minimized.
The time that the camera needs to extract / save the images of the cards vary widely between different cameras but it is common that the "cheap" cameras are slower than the expensive, there are exceptions, however.
Video
The film can occasionally be very fun with the camera and carrion, as I wrote requires an infrared camera for this purpose.
Otherwise you should look at what resolution the camera filming at: 320x240 or 640x480.
Some have both formats which can be good, but want to keep shooting so the camera should be clear VGA 640x480 in order to provide sufficiently explicit movies.
When the camera will sit out a long time, you may want to use 320x240 as the films of the resolution is less and then fit more footage on the memory card.
Also, look at how many frames per second (fps) provided for the camera when filming.
Expensive cameras often take more pictures per second (fps) when the film resulting in higher quality, but the camera is 640x480 so it will do well, regardless of number of images for a normal user.
A too high quality for video filming even fill the SD card in the camera unnecessarily fast.
You should also look at the camera, the memory capacity, should be from 2GB and up.
Then of course you should watch out carefully for the cameras that are limited to five-second film clip of the night (because they draw too much current).
Each movie is, of course, have the time and date stamp indicating.
When you start using the video mode on carrion camera so it lurks like himself by setting the camera to film the right long sequences.
The most common outcome is that you get a lot of the movie nothing. When they come to a carrion is often very early and often wander in and out of the picture. Long clip fills the SD card up too fast.
My most common setting is 15 seconds, giving great clips of the animal while the memory card quite well enough.
When using the camera to film it is very good if the camera is equipped with one days timer. It is unnecessary to fill the card with the crows in the daytime when you want to get some videos of the animals at night, for a few days' time.
Tips for effectively photographing / filming of a meat baits
This can be a very big problem if you choose the "wrong" camera and display have not been able to visit the camera is often used to replace the memory card.
A place with carrion meat frequently visited content, during the light part of the days of feathered crows. If you have a camera with a sensitive PIR sensor fast memory card is filled with these birds.
If you must avoid that the card is filled within a day or so, you will have to set a long delay between the images / video series.
The downside of it is that you get some pictures of everything, including predators to photograph / film at night, you get only a few pictures of.
If the display is so unfortunate to miss the first series of pictures predator, it means that you might not get a shot at it.
A very few cameras today have an equally clever, has easy solution - built-days timer.
You simply set the start and stop time, so you can avoid the problem of crows bird of the day and can be much tougher on FIRE with dense image / film series at night when the predators come.
The difference is unbelievable, instead of 890 pictures and 18 crows predator pictures in a week so the result may be the opposite. In addition, you do not have access to the camera and discover that it was full of crows images for several days while the bear after it had been in place. The choice is simple, choose a camera with a daily countdown, good PIR sensor and fast wake-up call and you will get fun with the camera. Of course you should not buy a camera with a bad sensor in order to avoid the birds, you can "avoid" all the other smaller animals with such a camera.
Battery Consumption
All cameras use more or less power, but some brands consumes so much that you quickly realize that you have to run the camera on the 12V car battery for you to use your camera.
Using car battery works all well and good, but handling is not fun. Do you have a piece to go to the bait etc. you will soon weary of to lug a car battery.
It is best if the camera does not draw more power than the operational cost is kept so low that you can drive with ordinary disposable batteries or rechargeable.
Rechargeable battery type Ni-MH is an option that allows you to save money and also the environment.
The drawback of rechargeable batteries is that they are not really good in winter when they can make the camera "haunt" a bit when it gets cold. In summer it is a good choice.
The problems in winter due to the battery loses its strength due to cold weather.
Rechargeable Ni-MH has only 1.2 V of power, a non-rechargeable is 1.5 V.
Most cameras stop working at 1V, and it is cold outside, it becomes quickly problems when shooting with the camera. When the power temporarily, dropping down to 1V problems of different nature, as is usually the infrared light that stops functioning as it is a piece in to each video.
Of course, all batteries lose capacity during the winter, but a non-rechargeable battery with 1.5 V, then a bit further down the camera to limit the use of infrared light that often lies at 1V, the rechargeable than that from the start is 1.2 V.
If you must shoot cameras with carrion in the winter so it is recommended that you use an external 6V or 12V lead battery type motorbike / car for the camera to function flawlessly.
Follow manufacturer's instructions in regard to current and + and - pole. If you use the wrong camera is broken.
Another very good option in winter is a Lithium-Ion batteries, unfortunately, only a few cameras that use them. And there are not as common rechargeable depending on the risks of a Lihtium-ion battery by mistake would be in a charger designed for Ni-MH or Ni-CD batteries.
A solar panel with its Lithium-ion battery pack with connector cable to the camera would be the optimal solution.
There are solar panels for some cameras, however, unfortunately, is usually the size of the poorly defined for it to work well in our Nordic climate during the winter.
Most importantly, of course, before you purchase the carrion camera checks that the model does not take too much power. With internal batteries, I think you should be able to require that the camera is sufficient for at least 3 weeks and at the same time has taken about 1,200 pictures.
Slide show directly in the camera's LCD display
Buying a camera where the images can be displayed directly on the display may seem attractive, and gives me a certain advantage. But to actually look at the pictures on the screen quickly becomes unfortunately a bit difficult because the display is small and this limits what you can clearly see in the picture.
For example, it is usually quite impossible to see the time and date, which many times is it just the information you want to know immediately.
It is also tiring to stand and browse images in the camera while it remains attached to the tree due. that you can not stand comfortably.
The main disadvantage of looking at the pictures of the display is the camera still consumes lots of power when the display is constantly lit and the camera while working to show the pictures. You can quickly consume several days of power from the batteries unnecessarily.
These models are also more expensive because the display slide show function and wasting money on a feature that does not increase the camera's performance is therefore in my opinion a waste of money.
The best way to look at the pictures is clearly in a computer and it is very urgent to look at the pictures so belongings is a laptop a good solution. The computer is very much faster to process images than a small device, like a camera. You may want to think about the memory card containing a few hundred pictures.
You can also try to put the memory card in its ordinary digital camera, with luck, it works, but not always.
Also, make sure that you get two memory cards directly to each camera. Then you just rotate fast memory card in the camera carrion and leaving the site directly so you do not add unnecessary weathering at the site.
Do not have access to a computer so you can connect your camera to your TV and see the pictures. AV cable that is usually needed to comply with the camera.
Time / date / moon phase / temp / Laser Pointer
For these functions are time & date for granted and is available on all cameras carrion. Time & Date can be missing on film clips, check this before buying the camera.
The time and date is an important tool in monitoring the frequency with which animals come and how long they stay on site at each visit. This information is very useful when vakjakt etc, with good track of times for visits so you can avoid unnecessarily long WAKEFUL NIGHT.
Moon phase - perhaps no more white in a game camera, but interferes with the function's not in any way. If you are observant you can perhaps see the moon control the animals' activities in any way.
Temperature - a fun thing to add some extra information to the image. But no necessity, it is not.
Laser pointers - one completely unnecessary lattjarpryl a carrion camera. The idea is good but unfortunately it is completely unnecessary. To mount a camera without carrion laser pointer is very simple, just add the camera at an appropriate height for a tree that stands straight. Back then moved away from the camera, looking straight at the camera so you can see quickly if it points toward the center of the projected image. Is it not so adjust the camera and repeat the procedure. It Really Is Not.
Water resistance
When you select the camera so check with the seller if the camera can handle rain and moisture in the outdoor environment.
Some brands are not water resistant, but requires that they are built in to not be damaged by excessive moisture.
Although the cameras that can withstand water is obviously not expose more than necessary or installed incorrectly, which makes the water more easily get into.
To mount the camera right carrion
To mount a camera right baits are not the easiest thing in the beginning. In order to get good shots and avoid the camera's PIR sensor will be fooled into taking unnecessary and "empty" images, there are some things to consider.
A good start is choosing the location where the camera should sit based on where the sun goes down and up and then place the camera with his back against the sun so you do not have backlit images.
Another important reason why the camera should have the sun in your back is to eliminate the empty images because of the sun's heat.
Especially sensitive is the right of the sun's up and downs. That's because when the sun rises in the morning temperature is low on leaves, etc. When the morning sun puts on a sheet and quickly heats it while light winds is a high risk that the camera detects this as a movement from an animal and shoot. By always having the sun in the back reduces the problem but still can not disappear completely.
To further reduce the problem, you should eliminate unnecessary branches in front of the camera.
All types of trees, shrubs, plants that have thin leaves and belongs problems moving spouses. So it is good to have those close to the camera but instead pick off as much as possible.
Of course you still be careful when you clean the front of the camera so as not to place undue change much. On a carrion is of less importance, but the animal trails, avoid changing the environment in which it clearly can affect the animals that follow the path
The tree you turn on the camera should be so serious that the bottom is not affected by light winds, the tree cane from side to side while the picture is taken so the picture may become blurred.
When selecting trees, there are also other things to think about giving advantages camera. A shaggy spruce is the camera's best friend.
The reason is that the branches to protect the camera from me both rain and humidity which reduces the risk of condensation and frost on contact lenses, etc.
If you think it is rare, even in winter as there is frost or snow inside the trunk of a fir tree. All open straight trunks without branches, one must avoid at any time when the camera is exposed to rain, etc. which often give poorer images.
What height should be on camera
As for how high / low people assemble their carrion cameras, you get 1000 answers if you ask. I put the height in terms of the region between the heel and chin, depending on the terrain and animals which I will shoot / film. The height gives a moderate early picking of the image while the scope of the PIR sensor is not adversely affected by the camera is positioned too low.
If you encounter someone who claims that the camera is placed as low as 50 cm and you can almost assume that the person has a bad camera with PIR sensor and that he thus discovered that litter the images of small animals were more. Of course, he will also meet to sex pigs on carrion, etc. and therefore opted for a low placement of the camera. Of course it may be interesting to put the camera really low at times, close-ups of smaller animals can be really good.
How do I put the camera away?
The distance up to the supposed center of the picture should be about 5 feet. Most cameras have the best sharpness in the distance. The pictures will also be "just right" most of the animals on the side.
Then the assembly itself is of course simple, trees are usually fairly straight.
Turn the camera on the tree by using the strap. Go back out to where you want the center of the image should be. Look at the camera, sitting on an angle so as to rotate it until you are satisfied.
Now you can use the test feature that most cameras, flashing light.
Go to the front of the camera distance to the camera to feel. When it blinks, you are "discovered".
Are you happy to start the camera and leave the premises. And do not run and control the camera on a daily basis, and you smell great!
Using the camera carrion during the winter
When using the camera during the winter, you will encounter some other problems than other times of year. Cold, snow and condensation are some things that can make it a bit, but nothing that is difficult to solve with a little reflection.
The key to success in winter is that the camera is placed "right" with good protection.
Absolutely the best and easiest is to place the camera on a tree trunk with a proper protective branches above and on the sides. Spruce provides excellent protection against snow and reduce the risk of freezing significantly.
If the camera must be placed in any other way so it is good to protect it with some form of roof and sides.
Frost / snow on the lens, PIR sensor and IR illumination glass affects both function and image quality. If you have frost / snow on the PIR sensor so the camera can be totally blind and do not feel movement or heat.
Also, arms above the camera can be weighed down by snow that settles on them, but take away only the outer part of the branch as being part left for the weight of snow and protects the camera instead.
If you want to "cheat" a bit in winter and help the camera to clear himself from frost, etc. so you can depart to turn the camera completely from the sun's up and downs and instead try to get some sunlight that warms the place where the camera sits.
On the way is cleared from the camera frost quite well. Do it right so it does not disturb the picture so that it really matters.
Battery power is also something which adversely affected during the winter, so it is more important that you choose a camera that is energy efficient if you want to use it even in winter.
Also check that the camera you intend to buy works in the cold, some manufacturers specify what the camera can handle and there are cameras that stop working already at -6 degrees.
Tips on where to place the camera
• All kinds of meat plus baits, do not forget the place of slaughter when you shoot moose. Often visit the site very quickly, sometimes the same night.
• Summer carrion for bears. You shoot beaver in the spring and has a bear on the ground, thus saving the beaver skinned the body and attach a wire in the sternum and up around his neck. Hoist up the body since a tree with a rope which you throw over a branch.
Hoist to about 3.5 meters into the Sunny Side of the tree. Do it early in the spring Will Dry the outside of the Body and Keeps Good Time. Bears In The Area Will Be investigator to the Beaver and give you the Opportunity to display lots of photos and movies.
Bears are active Until about the middle of June of this type of baits, then 'Decrease visits to re-start after bärsäsongen.
• Wildlife Trails - all types of game trails That You Can find, from deer to badger path? Place the camera like a piece of after-the-wrong trail. Switches där several paths Meet is a good choice. All paths are interesting.
• Even small bridges over streams Can give very good results.
• Salt Stones - a fun site with Many Different kinds of visitors. A good way to survey elk population, moving the camera Between Different blocks or use several. Exciting to know That big ox is in the hunt begins!
• Feeding Sites - charge and control your winter herd of deer. How does it look like with horns on the Law bockkiden?
• Capercaillie / orrspel Can give very nice images and a good picture of the number of birds at the Games.
• Traps - with a good camera, this Can Be exciting to try to catch marten, etc. on the movie "When he walks Into the Trap. What makes civet before, he went Into the first visit?
• All forms of coverage of Occupied Burrows is interesting, but not interfere unnecessarily. Check the camera rarely.
• In the market There are Different kinds of Fragrances. These are very Effective in Creating something interesting in front of the camera, the animals are Drawn to the camera.
• There are Many Other things to shoot If You Want, maybe Capercaillie hen's nest is exciting to photograph documents. Who robbed the nest? Place the camera low of about 2.5 meters. Be quick and interfere as little as possible, to control the camera as seldom as possible.
• Consider that your camera is NOT baits should be placed where it is likely that the shooting other people.
Condition
On its own lot, indoor it is permissible to shoot unlimited.
Putting out a camera on the "public place" is not permitted, it is just as forbidden as a tourist photograph people in public places without permission.
If the camera is small and also the less visible camouflagefärgad! Well, both because of the risk of theft and possibly. notification.
This Act which is likely to change, both hunting associations are working for it! "The crime" is considered as very small, too small to be prosecuted for.
Quote from Hallandsposten, December 1, 2009:
HP has previously written about the case in which a Danish hunters went on trial charged with offenses against the law on public video surveillance. Hunter had set up the camera at a carrion to keep better track of which and how many wild boars came and ate.
The prosecutor insisted that he would get rid of his camera and pay 50 fines, which in his case was 17 000 crowns - but it did not. Instead considered Hässleholms district court that the offense was so slight that no penalty would be imposed.
- The sentence is so clear that we do not intend to appeal it, "said prosecutor Christer Almfeldt on Wednesday, last day to apply to the court of appeal for a greater examination of the case.
- The court telling you that the public can not be expected to want to stay in the middle of the forest to any great extent. Thus, I believe it is free if you set up the camera at such a carrion, and not just off a hiking trail, "said the prosecutor.
The man who was convicted last summer of having set up game cameras outside Arboga had directed them to a control in an orienteering race, and then became a female orienteers worried that she stuck to the picture when she defecate in the wild.
- Reason has prevailed now, I have always maintained that the risk of someone being offended in the forest is extremely small, "says Peter Nilsson, Halmstad driving home www.viltkamera.se.
- But there is also a responsibility on us to set up cameras to take care of this nicely, "he adds.