Best cell game cameras?

[sheep]

Which ones work the best in alberta?

[HuntingAlberta]

My personal opinion,

Reconeco - probably the best camera. Instant text capability. Good quality cameras. Buy a steel box or put spikes on them as animals love ripping off the antennas. They don't get good service in SW alberta, they need to be up pretty high with perfect cell service. My telus cell phone needs 2+ bars for the cameras to work. They are an Alberta company, unreal customer service and good overall cameras. Does get expensive ($180/year unlimited plans) but you can buy monthly or pay per picture, etc. Lots of options depending on your needs.

Cuddeback - they are a cheaply made camera, but have radio capabilities. So you can connect up to 24 cameras into one cellular plan. so if you want cheaper cell plans with more cameras these work well. especially if you have a variable cell service area. You can put the home camera up high with good cell coverage and have pictures coming from areas with zero cell service.

spypoint - i've never used them, but heard they work pretty good., you can also buy a Link unit that connects to most any non-cell camera that you already have for a fraction of the price. Just plug in the link and it works.

[Lefty-Canuck]

Reconeco with Bell work great.

LC

[coyotekiller]

Originally Posted by Lefty-Canuck

Reconeco with Bell work great.

LC

X2 great cameras, great quality cameras, gets service where my phone doesn’t and local Alberta company

[Trapperdylan]

I only have experience with 4 wild game cell cameras from Canadian tire. 100 bucks each comes with the SD card and batteries is super cheap and I've had them since October and so far no issues other than when it was minus 40 the batteries quit. Cell plans are pretty standard, not cheap if you wanna run a bunch as its a plan per camera and I haven't had any issues with signal yet in an area that is OK for service west of GP. They wont do video is my only honest complaint for the price.

[Stinky Buffalo]

I picked up a couple of the Moultrie Delta cameras when they were on sale for 1/2 price ($80-ish). To be honest, they aren't that bad. The mobile app works fine and I can pull the pictures up on my computer as well.

The only issue I had was when I did a lot of picture deletion and configuration changes remotely and then the camera quit. I'm guessing that it went into a race condition and just burned through the batteries. Since then both have been great.

Got my hands on a newer model (the Edge) and it's been good too. One of the things I like about it is that it has integrated storage, so you don't have to worry about SD cards.

They support video, and if you just have them set to take stills, they don't push the HD version of the photos over the air unless you specifically request them. The downside is that it counts against your plan again when you do that.

They all support external battery packs (and solar too) so that's nice.

The plan isn't the cheapest, but they seem great for the price. Am going to keep one going most of the year at a friend's farm to see how it holds up.

[35 whelen]

I've been running four spy points for about 3 years now not really impressed with them going to try something new next year

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[penguin]

I have had no issues at all with my Tactacam Reveals. Really happy with them. Tried Spypoints before that and I chose to get rid of them. Haven't tried any others.

[Soab]

I have half dozen Ridgetec cameras.
No complaints, no issues. Have always worked great

[KazIce]

I have 3 different types of cell cameras. Here’s my thoughts on all three:

1) stealthcam fusion - works well and simple to use out of the box. Stealthcam has the best app to me, and you don’t have to pay extra to get all on photos if you have the camera set to burst mode (2 or more pics in a triggering). Pics are okay; and works decent day and night. Basic adjustability, but can’t adjust how sensitive the camera is. But out of the box, I am happy with mine. Easy to setup too.

2) covert wc20-a - fastest shutter speed; honestly too fast. I usually get the deers head. Biggest drawback of this camera is that it only sends the first picture, not the entire burst. Also, they are very temperamental on the type of sd card you use. It can only be their sd card or a Sony sd card. Manual specifically says do not use san disk. I actually have mine working with san disk, but I recall another forum member having problems with their camera and the sd card seemed to be the reason why. Also, your photos are delivered instantly at all times, but if the firmware is out of date it can be delayed. So you will get pics, but not always instantly. One last thing is they have the best package on plan pricing, you buy one plan and each camera you add is $5. Also easy to setup.

3) tactacam reveal x-pro - ultra customizable, app is slick, and the pics are good. You can adjust trigger settings to prevent false triggering, I find these cameras really sensitive so it took some tuning to find what was right with them. Also temperamental on SD card, it had to be a specific type of 16 or 32gb sd card (U3); I bought some 64GB in store that were U3 and that caused one of them to act up. Also, this one is manual and you have to choose the network, and for tactacam it’s AT&T. Nothing in the box said that so I had to go onto their web chat for support to learn that. Which reminds me, their web chat support is unreal. When I suspected I was having issues they were able to look at it remotely from their end and tell me my sd card was causing issues because it wasn’t supported. These cameras are also true to their range sensitivity, it triggers the farthest of the three brands. They have the most expensive plans, and it’s an extra $9 a month on the account if you want to see burst photos.

So if I were to buy again which would I buy? I’d probably lean on the stealth cams, ease of use and the app is really good. But honestly I like all 3 for different reasons.

[DirtShooter]

I have Spypoint.

Started with a 4G LinkMicro, it died. I think. I can't get it to register on my app after removing it and re-adding it. It's old and chewed through batteries.

Cell-Links - had 4 and only running 1 right now, I think I have one more that works but I haven't set it up. I got lots of spare parts though cause my other 2 crapped out. I would never buy a cell-link again.

I have one Micro LTE, works great.

I have 4 Flexes, they work awesome and routinely go on sale for like $120 so I will be buying more.

Spypoint's insiders club gets you 250 free photos with a yearly membership which if you have a good amount of cameras is cheaper than individual memberships. I do go monthly 1000 photos if I get lots of action on certain cameras or if there are some good animals but wind or cattle max the cam out then curiosity gets to me and I gotta get the 1000 photo plan to keep watching.