The $50 Digital Trail Cam!

[petey]

Before I left for a family vacation to Disney World a couple weeks ago I had to run over to Walmart and pick up a few essentials for the trip. Now I'll be the first to say I hate Walmart, but as I was walking past the sporting good section I saw a big $50 sign and a bunch of trail cameras hanging below the sign. That caught my attention so I walked on over and grabbed one to look at it. It was a Wildgame Innovations 1.3MP...I figured heck 1.3 Mega-Pixels..this thing's a piece of crap so I kept on walking. The next day I was talking to a buddy at work and guess what? He bought one and said he put it out the night before. He told me he would have pictures to show me the quality by the time I got back from vacation.

So a week later, I'm back and he said, "Hey I got those pictures for ya!" So he brought in his SD card and we brought the pictures up on my laptop. I then brought up the pictures from my 4MP Moultree Flash camera....The Wildgame Innovations had a better picture quality! So that got me to thinking...how can that be? 1.3 MP better than 4 MP on BEST quality? I always wondered as my Sony Sybershot set at 3.2MP takes about a 2.5MB sized picture and the moultree is spitting out pictures about 700KB.

Definitely the lense or something, b/c that day I went out and picked up 2 of the WI 3.1MP cameras. I figured $50, what the heck. I'm more apt to put that out there and it won't hurt too much if it gets stolen. Not like a $300 camera anyhow. Case in point I guess...just b.c they are spouting off like 4,5,even 7 MP game cameras, it doesn't mean you're gonna get the quality.

BTW, here's a pic of the new camera at 1.3MP (me in the Disney Shirt) and a pic taken about 100 yards away with the Moutree.

Downfalls to the 1.3?
No burst of pictures, it only takes 1 pic every 30, 45 sec, 1 min or 2 min
Trigger speed is descent, but not the fastest
Takes c-Cell batteries, so no clue of the lifespan
Also takes 3, 1.2V watch batteries for the date/time
Only handles 2GB SD card, which ends up being like 2000 or so odd pics

Anyone else see this deal and bite on it? Your opinions on this cost effective camera?

Here's the camera http://www.wildgameinnovations.com/products/s2.html
except it's a S1.3 instead of the S2.0