| I took a Cuddeback No Flash out for a test, and used | | | | clips anyway; they just take up the memory on the SD |
| for a few months. This is a product that comes in a | | | | card and don't give much more information. |
| little higher in price than other Cuddeback cameras but | | | | The trigger time on a trail camera is very important. If |
| it has a few features that set it apart from the rest of | | | | you have a trigger time that it too slow you will either |
| the Cuddecback lineup. | | | | get a less-than-ideal angle of the animal or you might |
| Things that I liked about the Camera | | | | have the animal move right out of the picture if it is |
| First of all, the name is a bit of a misnomer. In my | | | | moving quickly. The trigger speed on this camera is |
| opinion they should find another name for this unit. The | | | | very fast; faster than anything I have used in fact. I |
| reason is that is does actually have a flash. Call it the | | | | would say that it is under a second. No lost pictures |
| Better Flash or something like that. What I am talking | | | | due to slow trigger speed with this unit. |
| about is that the camera uses a 3.0 megapixel | | | | Using the camera is fairly easy. The LCD and keypad |
| camera during the daytime that takes pretty good | | | | operation can be learned quickly and are intuitive. |
| pictures. This level of resolution is pretty sufficient, even | | | | There are enough options to give you some versatility; |
| if you want to blow up the photos or crop them. Not | | | | you can change the delays from one minute to sixty |
| many people do blow up their photos from their field | | | | minutes, and you can use the Theft stop password |
| cameras anyway, but if you did it will be possible with | | | | protection to keep your camera's information safe. |
| most shots from this camera. When the camera takes | | | | Things that I would change about the Camera |
| pictures at night it switches over to a 1.3 megapixel | | | | This is a big unit. It comes in at over three pounds and |
| camera that uses an infrared flash. This flash is a | | | | the dimensions are pretty large. It is about 10 inches by |
| great advantage, as it will not scare away the animals | | | | 7 inches by 3 ½ inches. This doesn't affect its |
| that you are trying to capture on the camera. The | | | | performance in any way of course, but it could be a |
| quality of the pictures that are taken at night are pretty | | | | little smaller. Some of the security offered by the |
| decent, they will be good enough for you to see what | | | | infrared flash (other hunters in the area won't see the |
| you need to. Flash range is thirty feet, which is not bad | | | | flash) is offset by the fact that you have this monster |
| for most uses. The camera will take both daytime and | | | | hanging from a tree. Other than that it is pretty |
| nighttime video clips, although the quality is just fair. If | | | | functional and worth a look. |
| you are like me, you won't find much use for video | | | | |