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First Trophy Cam HD Max trial

First trials with the Bushnell Trophy Cam HD Max model 119477. Technical stuff :- Original colour daylight clips were 1280 x 720 at 30 frames per second H.264 AVIs using the Videosoft H.264 codec. Night-time black and white clips were all shot at 18 frames per second. My Avid editing software could not deal with the native clips without conversion to something more useful. Hence, I used Procoder to convert the clips to UK friendly PAL DV Widescreen Quick Time files at 25 frames per second. The conversion added some interlace "jaggy" artefacts but apart from that, the converted files are fairly faithful to the originals. Uploading to You Tube will also add it's own coding artefacts as well. It's a shame that there is not a locked-down 25 frame shooting mode in the camera settings to use as standard, (or 30 fps for use in the States). The manual says it shoots 20-30 fps in daylight and 15 - 20 fps at night???? Confusing, and awkward to edit with. The PAL/NTSC toggle in the camera menu only changes the display output for UK/USA use.. Results :- In use, the colour daylight shots look fairly typical for a digital video camera with a bandwidth that, I guess, is around 6Mb/s. Domestic DV/HDV and professional DVCAM are 25 Mb/s and broadcast HD is 100 Mb/s so the watery appearance of the colour shots is only to be expected. I was disappointed, however with the monochrome night shots. The lack of contrast and resolution is actually a lot poorer than I expected. The artefacts in the images look like the camera was shooting through a gauze screen. The camera to subject distance on this trial was around 10 - 12 metres, well within the 15 meters recommended for this model, so I would have expected the LEDs to have given sufficient illumination to give better contrast in the images. Perhaps the standard LED models give better contrast than this "black LED" version??? One clip of a Badger taken during the second evening is grossly over-exposed which is worrying from a brand new piece of kit. The occasional false triggers are to be expected for this type of equipment, so I have no complaints there. There is an audio glitch at the start of each clip and, in the case of daylight shots, the camera takes a while to establish correct exposure and colour balance. This is only to be expected from a camera starting up from cold and is far quicker than could be achieved in the past with tape-based kit. All in all it's not a bad piece of kit and I hope future models will continue to improve in quality and offer 25/30 fps locked-down frame rates. We baited a scratching post favoured by the local badgers, with peanuts and dog treats. That evening there was no activity at the location, but the following evening provided the first clip of a badger taking our treats. Three hours later and a fox appeared on the scene for around 10 minutes around 4.00 a.m. At 6.30, 2 badgers appeared and hung around for 35 minutes. A stray dog appeared around mid-day and scent-marked the area. The false trigger was presumably caused by the dog departing. Late that evening we had another badger visiting but the clip was over-exposed. Nothing was recorded over the next two days other than two false triggers until we recovered the camera the following morning. The unit is mounted in a metal CamLock box and secured with a Camouflaged Python Cable Lock made by Master Lock, Model 8418KADCAMO. It's a bit fiddly to rig when compared to simply lashing the camera to a tree, but pretty secure once installed. It's also quite well camouflaged. I walked past it twice before re-locating the right tree!