This is the last one to determine the best overall camera that I have and, as expected, the Spypoint took the prize. I am going to lay this one out a bit differently than the earlier matchups.
This round pits the Spypoint G4 against the Stealth Cam Nomad 5.0. Both cameras have burst settings so I set both at 2 shot bursts. If the detection range/trigger speed is similar on both I should have gotten approximately the same number of pictures on both cameras. When I pulled the cards, the first clue as to the difference between these cameras was obvious. The Spypoint had taken 84 pics since I set them up (although 6 of them were of leaves falling, the rest had deer in the frame). The Stealth Cam, a whopping 16. Both cameras had fairly fresh batteries (over 90% life remaining).
Please note that the time stamps on these two cameras are a few minutes apart.
First series,
Stealth Cam:
SpyPoint:
The only point that the Stealth Cam wins here is the fact that the IR filter was not still on and I got color photos. It is obvious from where the deer is in the frame that the Spypoint has a much better trigger time.
Second Series:
Stealth Cam:
SpyPoint:
Same thing. The Stealth Cam captures the deer just as it's leaving the scene while the Spypoint, with its faster trigger, catches it mid-frame.
Third Series:
Stealth Cam:
Spypoint:
Spypoint pics are a little more centered, but there is a possibility that the cameras were not exactly lined up (one pointed slightly more left or right of the other). Maybe not so much of a difference here.
Where there is a big difference, however, is the overall number of deer captured by the Spypoint that the Stealth cam completely missed. Here are just a few:
Like I mentioned at the beginning, the Spypoint had taken 84 pictures to the Stealth Cam's 16. Six of the pics on the Spypoint were just of leaves falling so that still makes it 78 to 16. Pretty obvious from those results that the Spypoint has much better sensitivity. This is also noticable by the fact that in many cases (such as the first and second series above) the Stealth Cam doesn't capture the subject until it has almost left the frame.
Other Pros and Cons
Spypoint:
You can read any of the last couple matchups to see these on the Spypoint. Some things I have not mentioned earlier though are the fact that the Spypoint does capture sound on the video setting (which I don't use very often). Another thing to note is that I had listed price as a "con" earlier but these are on sale right now on the Gander Mountain website for $99 with free shipping so I'm moving that into the "pros" category.
Stealth Cam:
Pros:
Very inexpensive camera (can be had super-cheap when they go on clearance after the season. I have 2 that I bought from Cabelas last year on a BOGO offer so I basically spent $32 a piece.
Setup is pretty easy
Picture quality is better than expected for this price range
Extra long strap allows you to mount to very large trees if needed.
Cons:
No internal memory for date/time stamp. You have to remember to reset this every time you change batteries.
Uses "C" cell batteries (I prefer AA's or even "D" size)
Big, bulky camera
Slow trigger time (as illustrated above)
Memory card slot is not the easiest to access (but it is easier than a couple of my other cams)
That's pretty much it for matchups to determine the best overall camera that I have. The overall winner is the Spypoint G4. I do want to see how others stack up against each other and there are also some cams that I didn't put the Spypoint up against since the Spypoint became the "champ" after beating out the Primos Truth Cam and that had already beaten out a couple of others. I will get all of these compared side by side in the coming weeks. Then we'll compare by price range. I will start by doing the low-cost cameras. The first of these side by side comparisons will be the Stealth Cam Nomad 5.0 which was just featured above vs the Wildgame Innovations S4. Hopefully I'll have that one up sometime next week.
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