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Review on πŸ“· High-Definition 16MP Trail Camera with Rapid 0.2s Trigger Time, 120Β° Wide-Angle Motion Sensor for Wildlife Monitoring and Hunting - Waterproof, No Glow, 2.4" LCD Display by Maxwell Thomas

Revainrating 1 out of 5

When this camera works, it's great; but the problem is that too often it doesn't work properly.

The Vikeri trail camera has a lot going for it, but mine creates tons of corrupted .JPG photos and .AVI video files. I have a family of foxes living under my shed so I bought this camera to photograph foxes and kittens. Two days later it turned out to be dead, so I bought a top competitor camera (which worked fine). Vikeri was completely unusable and blocked so I wanted to send it back. The SD card mostly contained corrupted files. However, I thought I should try formatting the mini SD card and it worked again. I kept getting corrupted files, even with fresh batteries, so I bought a 6V power supply to see if that would help. No, lots of useless corrupted files. Then I tried a 32GB Samsung Micro SD card from my Nikon DSLR and still got a lot of corrupted files. Then I tried another new card; more corrupted files. After reformatting cards on a PC I still get corrupted files almost every night. A few nights I had all the good files, but most of the time many or most of the files were corrupted. Sometimes the last third or two thirds are bad, sometimes the middle files are bad. The last two nights, the first 68 were bad, then the files from #69 were fine. (I typically get a little over 100 files per camera each night (baby kit chanterelles run around my yard every night). While the leading competitor's camera captures great all-night shots, Vikeri mostly creates junk files that recovery software can't remedy.

Pros
  • Dope πŸ”₯
Cons
  • Appearance