How do you read your sd cards?
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Same here. All my cams have two cards, but it would be nice to check things in the field at times...
Boone
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I have a dozen or so memory cards so I just swap one for another. During bow season, I'll take a Sony digital camaera with me to the stand and look at the pics in my stand, and sometimes curse because of what I missed by a day or two.
I have a transformer from Asus that I take with me. Pretty much the same as an iPad, but with droid platform. It does make it nice to see if the cam needs moved or adjusted, etc. I used to carry cards around with me, but would always lose them. This works way better for me. I just transfer them and go to the next camera.
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Most of my cams I can almost drive right up to. I hop out and go switch the card, get back in the truck and drive away. Then pull off away from the cam and check the card on a laptop. I like to see if the cam is messed up, angled wrong, weeds blowing etc so I can go back and fix it. Plus I'm like a kid at Christmas. Lol
Yep, like the one time I set up the BEC up on a hill and thought it was pointing down enough to the minerals.....a month later when I made it back down I found I only had four pictures, one of me setting it up and the others of a squirrel that happened to be on the side of a tree....the cam was way too high to pick up where the deer would have been. Oh yes, the minerals were dug into a hole in that amount of time too.....
Schu72
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If its a proven location, I just swap. If its new, I take my laptop to the camera, review the contents and decide if it stays or moves.
Not that it has anything to do with this thread, but I really like the "test" setting on the spypoint. I didn't realize just how useful it was until late season last year. You can really get that thing fine tuned for distance and direction by using that setting.
I've got an old laptop I carry in with me occasionally. Usually throw it in a backpack. Really is a pain though.
ohio mossy oak
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buckbuster217
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I usually just switch out cards and view them on the puter when I get home, if I need to check in the field I steal the wifes digital camera and check them with it.
rgecko23
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I do the same thing, bring it and an SD card reader, copy them down, put the card back in, off I go
Funny because until that happened I always thought the lazer beam on some cams for set-up were worthless. Like the idea of the test setting on those Spypoints.
The Spypoints are nice because they have an LED flash everytime it is triggered in test mode. I typically walk left to right to check the trigger area at the desired distance. Once I get the position set there, I adjust the sensitivity to the desired distance. What I found is that I missed many full deer pictures due to my elevation pitch being off. Once I started using the test mode and realized this, it greatly reduced the number of ass pictures I got, due to what I thought was "late triggers." If I have to adjust a cameras pitch, I just use a stick wedged behind the back top or bottom, and adjust it until I achieve the desired result.
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That's exactly what I do with my spypoints as well. Most cameras come from the factory with preset sensitivity. And we simply learn what the camera likes and what the camera doesn't and adapt the set up to that cam. You know if you set it up like this it will work, but if you set it up like that it will not. With a spypoint you have the ability to fine tune that cameras sensitivity to whatever situation you are setting it up at. On the edge of a field with a clear view in the daytime I've seen those cameras trigger as far away as 60 yards. But if you set that camera on a field with high sensitivity and say there's corn 20 yards away you're going to get to watch the corn grow as it blows around.
I've not heard good things about them. I think Flutey was going to try it out, but I never heard if he did. Rumor was, they weren't really made for iPhones and caused lots of issues...