Pappy
Senior Member
Ive been watching this thread and was little hesitant to post a reply and bring it back to life. lol.
Ive been running trail cams for ages. Back to the old film units, way before digitals.
Unfortunately these days, manufacturing quality has went down the tubes on a lot of products. I guess these things may fall in that category, but I think over the last few years they have improved though. I have a Bushnell I bought and has been hanging somewhere out there since the summer of 2013 and it hasnt skipped a beat. I'd have to say by far the best one Ive ever owned as far as problem free and longevity. But my nephew bought one at the same time I got mine, at the same store and his had all kinds of problems.
I have owned only one WGI that the wife bought me for Christmas 2014. It, by far, had the best picture and video quality of anything I had owned including that Bushnell.
Unfortunately it started acting up this past Spring. The sensors all but stopped working and it would eat batteries like crazy. and I always use Duracells.
My brother runs nothing but WGI. He started using them only about 2 years or less ago. I gave it to him to tinker with and he said he will probably contact them to see if he can get an estimate to fix it. Shot in the dark whether its feasable over buying a new one but why not? Me ....... I just didnt want to mess with it. I cant remember the exact model name but I think it was 8 mp. It was not a lower end cost camera, but wasnt over the top either. And again it by far had the best image quality of anything I had owned. Grainy a little, yes. But to capture the best 'moving image' Im assuming these things run off a higher ISO to get a faster shutter speed. That equals grain. Besides, Im not interested in making portraits out of these images. Im just after decent/good pics to see whats going on out there.
This one plus some old, old Cuddys finally bit the dust and I wound up buying 4 Moultries to replace them. (I have a seperate thread about those).
Two of them work great (so far) and two didnt. The details are in the other thread (Moultrie W-30i)
I returned the 2 and replaced those with 2 WGI Vision 16.
Only ran the first one yesterday and last night. It worked perfectly so I put the second one out (in video mode) this afternoon.
On my old WGI, yes it went nuts after about 2 1/2 years but had the best picture quality. I didnt hesitate to try these 2 new ones just because the old one gave out. Again I believe theyve made a lot of improvements in these things but still unfortunately theres lemons in about anything you can think of these days.
The only thing I dont like about these is theyre black. They have the 'bark' texture but are black. Stick out like a sore thumb, but where Im running these im not too concerned about theft. If all works well I'll probably brush paint them up a little.
On my old WGI I ran it on video for ages. id have to look at the folder containing the pics and vids from that camera but it took and recorded thousands of pics and vids. So I cant complain about that.
Ive been running trail cams for ages. Back to the old film units, way before digitals.
Unfortunately these days, manufacturing quality has went down the tubes on a lot of products. I guess these things may fall in that category, but I think over the last few years they have improved though. I have a Bushnell I bought and has been hanging somewhere out there since the summer of 2013 and it hasnt skipped a beat. I'd have to say by far the best one Ive ever owned as far as problem free and longevity. But my nephew bought one at the same time I got mine, at the same store and his had all kinds of problems.
I have owned only one WGI that the wife bought me for Christmas 2014. It, by far, had the best picture and video quality of anything I had owned including that Bushnell.
Unfortunately it started acting up this past Spring. The sensors all but stopped working and it would eat batteries like crazy. and I always use Duracells.
My brother runs nothing but WGI. He started using them only about 2 years or less ago. I gave it to him to tinker with and he said he will probably contact them to see if he can get an estimate to fix it. Shot in the dark whether its feasable over buying a new one but why not? Me ....... I just didnt want to mess with it. I cant remember the exact model name but I think it was 8 mp. It was not a lower end cost camera, but wasnt over the top either. And again it by far had the best image quality of anything I had owned. Grainy a little, yes. But to capture the best 'moving image' Im assuming these things run off a higher ISO to get a faster shutter speed. That equals grain. Besides, Im not interested in making portraits out of these images. Im just after decent/good pics to see whats going on out there.
This one plus some old, old Cuddys finally bit the dust and I wound up buying 4 Moultries to replace them. (I have a seperate thread about those).
Two of them work great (so far) and two didnt. The details are in the other thread (Moultrie W-30i)
I returned the 2 and replaced those with 2 WGI Vision 16.
Only ran the first one yesterday and last night. It worked perfectly so I put the second one out (in video mode) this afternoon.
On my old WGI, yes it went nuts after about 2 1/2 years but had the best picture quality. I didnt hesitate to try these 2 new ones just because the old one gave out. Again I believe theyve made a lot of improvements in these things but still unfortunately theres lemons in about anything you can think of these days.
The only thing I dont like about these is theyre black. They have the 'bark' texture but are black. Stick out like a sore thumb, but where Im running these im not too concerned about theft. If all works well I'll probably brush paint them up a little.
On my old WGI I ran it on video for ages. id have to look at the folder containing the pics and vids from that camera but it took and recorded thousands of pics and vids. So I cant complain about that.