Originally posted by semohuntingguy
well after rereading this parker and your answer about which and thank you very much for i was wanting to use my exisiting box and all and just replace camera use everything else and get a digital
Wont work, just to be blunt about it...Sorry..for one, Most if not all commercial cams have an electronic type trigger from the sensor to shutter the camera...if you do that to a normal camera, digital or otherwise you will fry it..all the cameras on the shelf that you look at in say walmart shutter picture through Grounding...and
IF your cam did have a common ground to trigger it, you would still most likely never find a camera off the shelf that you could use and have the flash hole and lens hole line up correctly..probably not even close.
What i sugest you do is, throw that thing away or send it back to get worked on and fixed...not likely because they use up all thier cams and cases and move on, they want to sell you another cam year after year. so, go to
http://www.hagshouse.com and look up everything on the BG2 control board, Yeti board, Snapshot Sniper board (SSS) and either a Sony DSC-P32 or Sony DSC-P41 camera and build your own, then if something goes wrong, you can actually fix it without having to buy a whole new cam.
The BG2 control board...Will run for 9 months on a single 9vdc battery...actually it will run for over a year, i have been testing one for that long on the same battery, but the Developer of this board wants to advertise it at 9 months to be conservative.
If you want to go with IR cam, you want to look at either the P32 or P41. the best cam for this is the Olympus D-380, go with a slave flash and a Wein peanut slave trigger along with the BG2 control board as it will also double as a slave controller, it keeps the slave flash Capacitor topped off at night only, cutting battery use in half for it, and use a external Slave flash with IR filter over it to stop the white flash..if you buy a commercial cam in the IR style..personally you are making a huge mistake..They use IR leds instead of a flash..this means the LEDs come on, the cam shutters the picture and then the LEDs turn off...the hole time the animal could be moving and what you end up with is slightly blurred pics at best and mostly pictures that are so blurred you cannot make heads or tails out of them..a flash is much better as a flash freezes movement in the dark..beleive me, i have tried this as well as many others, it was tested and adjusted to death 2-3 full years before the commercial market came out with it, they always seem to be just a couple years behind the homebrew guys..the homebrew guys had digital game cams 2 years before any came out commercially..Smart folks making it easy for you to have better.
Now if you just want to buy a cam...Pinwheel is the guy you need to talk to, he will set you up with the best you can buy for the money :cheers:
