Just curious which people prefer and why. I've always taken photos with my trail cams. I'm thinking the cards fill up quick with videos.
Video or Photos
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I prefer videos. My cam has recently decided it doesn't like to "trip" with video though. So I am stuck with photos.
Fullbore
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I personally like to use videos over scrapes and pinch points, and still photos on mineral licks and apple and corn piles.
Buck Whisperer
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I agree with full bore still photos over bait piles if not you will be changing your batteries a lot
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JOHNROHIO
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Still pics for me, I don't have the patients to go through the videos. It's like watching paint dry to me. The few times that I have done it, there was only a one or two times that it showed me something that the still it takes before the video did not.
Thanks for the input thus far. I think I'm going to try running my one camera in video mode over a pinch point and see the results.
Big_Holla
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It's worth a try to use the video mode. Just be prepared to replace the batteries. I have one cam over a couple mock scrapes I started last time I was down that I wish I had put on video mode. Maybe next time!!
I only use video on scrapes or in areas where I need to know how the deer are moving through. Other than that, my cam take stills 95% of the time...
Buckmaster
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Today I went to my cams to specifically switch them from video to stills and put in fresh batteries. I had only 26 total videos over the last week and 8 of them were coons and one was of some people walking in the creek with a big ass dog running along the creek bank with them. Only had one antlered buck(spike) and a few fawns and does.
I will not plan on swapping cards till I go in to hunt and passing near them....IF I CAN'T STAND IT!lol
I will not plan on swapping cards till I go in to hunt and passing near them....IF I CAN'T STAND IT!lol
I know what you mean, if you can stand it. I was at my hunting property yesterday to help my buddy hang a camera. I was within 50 yards of two of my cameras on the way in. Somehow I resisted the urge and let them be.
buckstar25
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We usually have one camera running video 95% of the time. Bushnell Trophy Cam HD. It has a 16 or 32 GB card in it all the time so it never fills up. We take the full 1 minute video, our reasoning is just because its fun to watch, the audio really makes it worth doing. Middle of October we move the camera to field edges and active scrapes, and we always try an set it up so we have a large field of view, big field, logging road, food plot.
The other 7 cams are set up for stills, most set on 3 picture burst.