Trail camera newbie - what is “shot lag”?

[Gardenjungle]

I’ve just bought a Crenova trail camera and am trying to read the instruction manual (which is written in Chinglish). It explains “shot lag” as adjusting “the amount of time to record a shot that has already been pre-focused.” I don’t get what this is to do with at all! Is it to do with still shots or video. What does it do? When does it happen? My understanding is inversely proportional to my age (and I’m old!). Can anyone please put this into clearer language for me? Any advice is appreciated.

 

[Red Dragon 2]

Think it means the amount of time between the object being seen and the camera shutter opening, the shorter the time the better

 

[Tim.243]

I’ve just bought a Crenova trail camera and am trying to read the instruction manual (which is written in Chinglish). It explains “shot lag” as adjusting “the amount of time to record a shot that has already been pre-focused.” I don’t get what this is to do with at all! Is it to do with still shots or video. What does it do? When does it happen? My understanding is inversely proportional to my age (and I’m old!). Can anyone please put this into clearer language for me? Any advice is appreciated.

Welcome from Essex for when admin ask for an intro....

Re the trail cam, I type the make model in you tube and most times there is some one who has done a " how to " vid.

For example I was brought a Browning trail cam back from the US and did the you tube bit, his vid cut right to the bits I needed.

What I do is set it out in the garden and walk past it day/night also chuck something out for the dogs to find near it.

That way you can iron out all the bits you don't need, a pound says you get 2-3k of pictures of a stray bit of grass or plant lol My record was 4.5k as a badger pushed it around.





Tim.243

 

[The Singing Stalker]

And I thought 500 pictures of pigs were bad. Some idiot pointed the camera facing the pigpen. Cough.

 

[75]

Shot lag doesn't really mean anything. Shutter lag is the time between pressing the shutter button and the camera taking the shot (usually dictated by speed of autofocus). In this case I think what shot lag is referring to is the time delay between one shot and the next. You want to set it at something like 15 or 30 seconds between images otherwise you'll get loads of near identical photos and a full memory card very quickly. It's rare that wildlife dashes through the shot quickly, they're usually milling around when not disturbed so a shot or two is all you need to know what's on the ground.

As Tim says, set it up in the garden for a day or two and see how you get on...