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GardePro A3 Game Camera
great camera
07/12/2020
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03/10/2022
An excellent "budget" trail cam but the E6 will pr
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 are1) GardePro E62) Gardepro E83) 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 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.
09/07/2022
Everything is great - except the wifi and app...
I want to love this OSENOUS WiFi Trail Camera.It takes excellent pictures, at 48MP, as it should. It's a nice Game Camera with what I believe is expected of today's many game camera options: night vision, no-glow flash, waterproof, motion detection, etc. All that stuff worked very well.However, one thing it offers that isn't as common is WiFi.Now the thought of being able to walk close to the camera and connect via Wi-Fi to retrieve pictures is awesome - (As opposed to potentially having to remove the camera from a tree, open it up, turn it off, remove the card, get the pics, and then redo everything in reverse order)Unfortunately, this is where the camera failed me. Not only did it fail me, it added a layer of aggravation with the Venari app and the trouble it caused.Getting the app was easy, app store via a QR code. I was already skeptical when I read some of the app reviews...it's not well rated.I was finally able to get my phone to connect to the OSENOUS trail cam, but that was a bit of a chore. Excitement was in the air when I started to download my photos! It got to 100%! But then...it stayed there. For a long time.So I closed the app. Tried again. Either the same thing or connection issues. Again I persisted. Same results. Sadness set in. I gave up. Now it's just a trail cam that I will have to remove the card to get the pics from. Bummer.But then - I found the other cell picture added here - in my Photo gallery on the iPhone - hundreds of empty Venari folders! What? So after a few checks and tries...logic got the better of me and I deleted that garbage app. I was hoping this would remedy the 100's of new folders the app made. It did not. So I have to go delete all those. Very aggravating!The other downside of this is that I was unable to get example "real world" trail cam pics from this otherwise pretty nice OSENOUS trial cam. I would have added them to this review of course. I apologize.My advice - don't use that app. But the camera itself is otherwise as advertised. It is crowded market for this sort of device and this one you might want to wait for a sale or percentage off to get value out of this camera. Obviously I can't say I would rely on the Wifi option to be a game changer for it.
12/11/2021
Great camera for a great price
Easy to setup. Takes decent pictures. My first game camera...pleasantly surprised.
13/10/2021
Pics sent to your email with great clarity.
What not to like? I have used multiple different trail / game cams over the past many years, by far the GlassRaven has been the best. Easy to set up, well made, and great pictures. I have goats , donkeys, chickens on the farm so I set the camera up on them to try different settings. Then I moved it out to the woods in the same places I had been using a top name camera, that had taken many photos of deer, turkey, raccoons, skunks, squirrels, etc. I could not believe how many more pics I got with very good clarity. I could see details in the animals that I had never seen before. I will be getting more GlassRaven Pro 4 cameras in the future. Having pics sent to your email so you don't have to go out to the camera is a game changer.
01/06/2021
Quality game camera. Easy set up.
Excellent game camera pictures. Easy set up. Would buy again.
30/05/2021
Very small trail cam with big capabilities. Takes
I really this game camera, and I'm impressed with it's features, capability and size. It's really small.The single caveat I have is that this trail cam uses 8 AA batteries, which is pretty much twice the number of comparable models by other brands.It feels very well made, and has outstanding resolution on the interior monitor screen. I'm also a fan of the menus which are extensive, simple to use... and make sense. You really don't need to read the instructions. I find it intuitive.Camera features 1520P resolutions, while others in it's class (price range) are only 1080P, and can record on a 32G micro SD memory card.We needed this trail cam because we've been leaving out bowls of cat food for several weeks for feral cats. Problem is, we also have possums and raccoons that wouldn't turn down a free meal.This trail cam will allow us to finally see exactly who we have been feeding.If it's the neighbor's cat across the street (inside/outside cat), we may not be happy.
29/04/2021