Trail Camera,56MP 4K 0.2S Trigger Motion Activated,Game Camera with Night Vision IP66 Waterproof 2.0''LCD 120°Wide Trail Cam Lens for Outdoor Scouting Wildlife Monitoring Home Security

We started having minor issues with trespassers this summer. When Black Friday 2021 rolled around I decided to buy a bunch of budget cameras to test them out and keep the best six. I compared: (3) GardePro E5 ($53.99) (3) GardePro E5S ($57.99) (1) GardePro E6 ($83.99) (1) GardePro E8 ($97.99) (2) Wosport G6oo ($41.99) (1) Usogood WIFI trail camera 4K (Gifted to me, currently lists for $113.99) (1) my one year old Victure ($84.22) (Black Friday 2021 Prices except for the Victure, which was Black Friday of 2020) So my winners and keepers in order are 1) GardePro E6 2) Gardepro E8 3) Wosport G6oo. Everything else (Except the Victure) got sent back. That about sums it up, but if you want the details and why I made those choices then read on. I initially set up a test in the forest behind my house and put all the cameras side by side on a board about four feet off the ground. I set it up so that I could walk into view at a right angle 90 feet away from the cameras then walk directly in towards the lens. I let the cameras run for 24 hours and made several trips down to the board midday, evening and in pitch black darkness. For physical design the GardePro cams are all awful. The screen is on the inside lid behind the camera, so it’s only visible when you have the camera pointed in the wrong direction. Figuring out where to mount the camera so that it’s pointed at the precise right spot is a real chore. The battery compartment lid is crazy tight. I had to use a flat screwdriver to get to the batteries and for some reason none of my rechargeable batteries fit. Finally, the memory card slot pops out the bottom and it’s not always obvious when you have it “locked” in. I envision SD cards getting lost in leaves in my future. The E6 and E8 had some redeeming qualities though: The Winner: GardePro E6: It worked perfectly right out of the box with very little configuration. The poor physical design is overridden by the WiFi feature, which allows me to get the cam pointed using the screen on my phone. I could review the images and videos on the cam without pulling the card so dropping it out the bottom is a smaller concern. The sensitivity isn’t perfect but it works better than anything else in the group I tested, except the slightly more expensive E8. The images and video were not as good as my phone. They aren’t even as good the phone I stopped using eight years ago. But compared to all the other cameras in the test they are exceptional. I was easily visible in the night time video at 90 feet, and could almost start to recognize myself at about 50 feet away. My face was easily recognizable when I got to somewhere between 25 and 20 feet from the camera. GardePro E8: This performed almost exactly as the E6. The only reason I put the E6 at the top of my list is that I don’t really see any extra value for the price, unless getting a slightly higher resolution (32MP vs 24MP) is super important to you. I was more interested in video, and they both record at 1296p. If they were within $10 I’d buy the E8, but at the time of this writing there’s a $20 gap that I don’t think is justified, unless there is some other feature I just haven’t noticed yet. If I discover some other benefit in the next year I’ll come back and edit. If they both go for the Black Friday prices again I’ll get the E8. Wosport G6oo: Honestly, these were so cheap I bought them to use as decoys. These don’t have the invisible IR so when they trigger you will see a red light. I intended to set these up as a deterrent, with a second (and better) camera watching the same area but out of sight. Someone approaching the camera would hopefully see it and turn around, but if they decide to trespass anyway and steal one of these cameras to cover their tracks, I would get proof from the better hidden camera. I was really surprised at how good the sensitivity was right out of the box, the quality of the videos and audio, and how intelligently the physical case is put together. After sending back the E5 and E5S cameras, I decided to just mount these up out of reach with a ladder where a trespasser can’t get to them easily. UsoGood: As far as usability and sensitivity goes this is a great camera. Unfortunately I was not impressed with the images or video. The images I got were all grainy both night and day, and had a serious fisheye distortion without adding any noticeable field of vision over the other cameras. I had put this on my wishlist after drooling over the feature list and the reviews, but as badly as I wanted to love this camera I had to send it back using the gift receipt. Hopefully my in-laws won’t be upset. GardeE5 cameras: Great images for the price, but the sensitivity and audio was not good. They never stopped triggering. In 24 hours I ended up with 990 images on each camera. I retested these by putting the sensitivity down to medium, and then they wouldn’t trigger until I was within 25 feet. Another deal breaker was that the audio on all three was horribly muffled. If a trespasser is talking I want to be able to hear everything they are saying. If a deer suddenly turns to look somewhere I want to know what sound made it jumpy. GardePro E5S cameras: Like the E5, great images for the price, but the sensitivity and audio was not good. They triggered nonstop and in 24 hours I ended up with 1391 images on each camera. I retested these by putting the sensitivity down to medium. They improved but I still ended up with about 20 pictures and videos of a dead still forest with no clue as to what triggered them. I think I could have gotten the sensitivity to work as needed but the biggest problem I ran into was that the audio on all three had a consistent clicking sound in addition to being muffled. I tried downloading the newest firmware but that didn’t seem to make any difference. Victure: I don’t see these on Amazon anymore so it’s probably not worth mentioning, though these had rave reviews in 2020. The sensitivity on this is a little low but overall it works as expected, and I’ve gotten some great clear videos of deer and racoon. The biggest issue I have with my Victure is that the IR range at night seems to be weak. Any movement beyond 25 feet at night is so poorly lit that you can’t tell what you’re looking at. It’s the perfect camera for tracking Bigfoot, as you’ll get all the blurry ghostly night images you could hope for.

My wife and I LOVE this thing! What a great time for so little money. :-) We get so much enjoyment from watching the excellent videos and photos captured by this device, day and night around the clock in any and all weather. We live right in the middle of a good sized Northern Virginia city not far from Washington DC, so we thought using it to watch the trays and feeders we put out for birds would be about the only thing we would use it for; wildlife is scarce to non-existant in town, right? Wrong. Since we started using this out on our front porch, mounted on a small camera tripod just a few inches high (in a large townhouse subdivision), we get the most incredible videos and photos of birds of all kinds, squirrels, skunks (stinkers aren't welcome, but most are very well behaved), raccoons, local pets (and ferals) outside late at night and even the occasional groundhog, fox and other critter we never imagined was nearby -- no idea whatsoever that most of these animals were here, and we've been here twenty years! :-) Once we discovered them, we started putting out feed and fresh water for them daily (and every night). Word spread quickly -- they must have texted all their buddies, because now we have a large number of regulars coming around almost every night in the wee hours, sometimes as many as 10 or 15 individual animals, and that's not even counting the birds of every kind! Having just retired, the enjoyment we get watching the videos and photographs, or even better, now just looking out the window of our front door, is priceless. This is a cheap good time, folks. In addition to the many animals we enjoy having as visitors, the camera also has alerted us to the arrival of pests we otherwise might never have noticed. We really love most of the wildlife visitors, so pretty much the only animals to which we now attach the label of pest are rats. Unfortunately, where there are people, there will be rats, especially when food and fresh water are so readily available. We can't trap or poison the rats without trapping or endangering the other wildlife, particularly the squirrels (one of which my wife is able to feed by hand) to which rats are closely related, so the only thing to do short of spending a fortune on professionals and disrupting ALL the critters coming here regularly for sustenance has been taking them out with a better quality .22 caliber variable pump airgun I bought for the purpose. As much as I dislike doing it (gave up hunting decades ago), we can't have rats around our home, and our neighbors agree, so taking them out helps not only us, but everyone else in the community, even the pets that are allowed outdoors. The camera was indispensible when this happened, showing us not only that rats were here, but allowing us to track down where they were living, which was critical to getting rid of them. This inexpensive camera has been the best toy and tool imagineable. For lovers of wildlife anywhere, even in the middle of cities, for budding video and photographers, for retired seniors looking for an enjoyable new hobby, for tracking down and locating pests and/or simply satisfying your curiousity, this might be just what you need. It's certainly been a great time for us. The camera, a regular supply of triple-A batteries (good for maybe five days to a week of constant use, but we buy batteries in quantity from Costco), a couple of SD cards (when we bring it in, we remove the card from the device, replace it with the previous card already copied to our PC and put it right back outside, in whatever area of interest we discovered watching the latest footage) and you should be ready to go! The short tabletop tripod is very handy, although I already had a few from my 35mm and digital camera hobby, but the camera is equipped with a lengthy strap easily wrapped around almost anything: fence and railing posts, bushes, trees, whatever is handy, so while we absolutely LOVE the closeups we get of the curious skunks, raccoons, birds or whatever (plenty of those too), a tripod is not strictly necessary. The camera has a setup menu that could be challenging for those not very comfortable with smart phones, laptops and such, (the default settings should be fine in most cases), so keep that in mind if considering giving the device as a gift. Also, there was no manual accompanying the device on delivery, all too common today with many electronic devices, but if it helps keep prices this low, we're okay without it (the manual probably is available for download online, although I haven't checked). Luckily, experience and experimentation were good enough teachers, so we discovered what worked (or didn't) as we used it. As I think I've mentioned, we really enjoy it. Our game camera has proved itself time and again in the almost three years since it was delivered. It's a lot of fun, especially considering the unexpectedly low price, and is still going strong after heavy use (even being dropped a time or three). If you are at all curious about what might be just outside your home while you're peacefully sleeping indoors unaware, this is a great way to find out. You guys have got to give it a shot (sorry, couldn't resist). ;-) Recommended.

I have returned the item weeks ago because it was poor quality, but I still have not received a refund.