I used a piece of 6 mm reinforcing rod on 2 pairs of cameras, they don't have to stand up so high as you can tip them back to get the angle just right.
The 2 I am using for myself are fishing rod bank sticks as I used up the rou-bar on the other cameras!
The thread is 1/4 Whitworth which should stump most people these days lol
Tim.243
Thanks for the tip on the steel rods and 1/4 whit thread, I have just made up a rod and set a camera on it.
How long do you generally leave a camera before going back and checking it?
2teal
Well here are my latest attempts at using my Little Acorn trail cam over a 5 day period.
After making up a steel rod to mount the camera on I set it up under a large hazel bush on what appeared to be a well used path. A friend suggested setting the camera up "oblique" to the track and about 3 meters from it. This seems to have worked with the side sensors warming the camera up in time to catch anything passing. The camera is set up at about 2 foot high.
A lot of lessons learned mainly the light under the bush makes it difficult for the camera during the day, also a lot of triggers for a squirrel so I probably won't set it up under a hazel bush next time!!!
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The camera was up from the 2nd of June till today. When I set the date on the camera I got the month and day the wrong way round!
Well here are my latest attempts at using my Little Acorn trail cam over a 5 day period.
After making up a steel rod to mount the camera on I set it up under a large hazel bush on what appeared to be a well used path. A friend suggested setting the camera up "oblique" to the track and about 3 meters from it. This seems to have worked with the side sensors warming the camera up in time to catch anything passing. The camera is set up at about 2 foot high.
A lot of lessons learned mainly the light under the bush makes it difficult for the camera during the day, also a lot of triggers for a squirrel so I probably won't set it up under a hazel bush next time!!!
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The camera was up from the 2nd of June till today. When I set the date on the camera I got the month and day the wrong way round!
So, judging by this image there is something in the way that the sensor scans and records the stills - either that or I've captured a two and a half legged deer! Given it is supposed to be a 5Mp sensor and this was set to 5Mp, I thought it would see the whole image instantaneously - someone else might know better?
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Well here are my latest attempts at using my Little Acorn trail cam over a 5 day period.
After making up a steel rod to mount the camera on I set it up under a large hazel bush on what appeared to be a well used path. A friend suggested setting the camera up "oblique" to the track and about 3 meters from it. This seems to have worked with the side sensors warming the camera up in time to catch anything passing. The camera is set up at about 2 foot high.
A lot of lessons learned mainly the light under the bush makes it difficult for the camera during the day, also a lot of triggers for a squirrel so I probably won't set it up under a hazel bush next time!!!
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The camera was up from the 2nd of June till today. When I set the date on the camera I got the month and day the wrong way round!
So I've drawn on everyone's great advice; placed the camera somewhere with better light, a little further from the subject, and away from the main squirrel population! I also picked up a flavoured salt lick when I was Stateside to try to hold them in shot for longer.
Having the subject further away helps the focus and blurring, but the most impressive result was the salt lick - it started slowly at first, but now the deer can't get enough of it with the camera capturing 15-20 'events' a day at the moment. I've added a few pictures and will post a video in the next post. Thanks for everyone's help!
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