Review of the Cuddeback Capture Digital Scouting Camera By Jenn Jamie At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

This camera is an entry-level camera offered by Cuddeback and it is intended for those that want to get the basics in a field camera and be able to get some information on the animals that they are scouting in the wild.

The image quality of the Cuddeback Capture rates somewhere between fair and good. The resolution is 3.0 megapixels which is about the standard at this price level in the marketplace. The daytime pictures were actually quite good, but the Capture struggles where so many field cameras do; the images that were captured at either dawn or dusk are pretty washed out. I know that this is not easy for many cameras, whether they are field cameras or even the regular digital cameras but you do lose a few shots when they are taken in this kind of light.

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The battery life for the Capture is not bad but also not great. I used Energizer alkaline batteries and they lasted for about 8 weeks. I did not test the unit with rechargeable batteries, but you can bet that if you do use the rechargeable batteries you will get substantially less out of them. It will depend on how you use the camera whether or not this will be a big deal for you. If you are intending to leave this in a very remote location or far away from home it will not work that well for you. The Capture takes four D size batteries to operate. As you can imagine, this is not a small unit.

The actual use of the camera is fairly straightforward. The instructions are clear and the dial that allows you to switch from the different time delays is a good system. One thing that I liked is that the date and time is stamped on every image taken, and this is good information if you are using the camera for scouting. It can tell you if the camera went crazy and took all of the pictures in a day or two. Thankfully, this was not the case and the sensitivity seemed to be about right. I did get a number of good shots out of it and there were very few missed shots.

I have had a problem with previous Cuddeback models with regard to the way that they set up on a tree. This problem is endemic to the field camera market. I can say that the system provided for the Capture is an improvement on earlier models, although I still tend to use the bungee cord method as there is a pile of them in the truck and I am just used to doing it this way. I used the Cuddeback system just to see how it worked and it is actually not too bad.

As this is an entry-level camera there are some options that you will have to live without. It does not have a view screen to look at your images so if this is something that you want you may be better off with some of the higher models from Cuddeback. This camera is good quality for its price and if you are looking for something that is reliable and offers the basics in a field camera it would be a good option.

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