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LMITOUT

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MuleShack Grand Master

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Am viewing vid with camera hooked to puter. Will try chip directly in puter but doubt that will change anything as sometimes it works. Most times not. Same with resolution. Should be consistently bad in all situations. Leaning towards bad camera or bad chip. Just strange that it always works when practicing and almost never works out hunting.

I am still leaning toward the 30 fps being the problem.

In your back yard you don't have weeds movingetc.

I found that setting #3 works best for action being it is 60 fps.

There are other settings to try such as the aperture setting. Ther

There is pinpoint and evaluative...i have had mine on pinpoint.

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I am at 1080p with 30 fps and medium fov. Hard to believe the fps would make my vids look like they do and especially so inconsistent. Have cattails right next to our lot so will try to speed it up and give it a test later. Any setting with faster fps does not give me ability to narrow fov so going get unwanted fishbowl look it appears.

We did hook it directly to our tv at our duck camps when using in the field. That is where we first encountered difficulty.

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FPS I don't believe has anything to do with your problem. The very first thing to try is a different memory card. They are not the most reliable piece of equipment in your camera. Try that and see if anything changes. Use a fast, quality card, cheap easy way to help narrow your problem.

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So figure I'd test the moving grass theory. Fire it up just like I would when hunting. Take several different vid. Dogs chasing ball in open yard, dog chasing ball in shade of pines, walking through pines, 2 different lighting conditions in prairie grass and one standing in cattails. All shoot fine. Thing just won't work when it's game time. Who knows if anything would show up if I sent it in even if they run a complete diagnostic on it. Ghost in the machine.

This was all unsupervised too Pierre in case you were worried wink

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Yea I guess it could be your SD card acting up too.

I'm in a hotel in SD right now and had a bunch of video in 1080 but when I watched it from the camera to the laptop it seemed like it was skipping every other second and it viewed funny. The quality was ok, but viewing from the camera was weird.

I deleted all of them, and formatted the card...when I tried to shoot more today, it wouldn't work. Must not have liked the format or something

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LMITOUT Grand Master

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Sometimes streaming to the PC via the USB connection doesn't work well. A buddy had the same issues but after copying to his laptop they played fine. I have to think it is due to the transfer limit of USB & the video capabilities of the PC you're viewing it on.

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Have tried running directly from card plugged in puter with same results. Will try downloading from card onto puter but not real hopeful. Card not working in cold conditions maybe or maybe the camera doesn't like the cold. Another theory to test but will be too late. Most likely will bug out to intercept mallard migration in western MN before a cold test can be completed.

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Just thinking that may the ghost in my specific camera or card. My bil has some great vids from the pro snowmobile races he announces. Have mine in fridge right now prepping for the freezer and then a test. Also picked up spare card when trading in games in prep for back ops 2. Worked fine on hounds supper walk in fading light so is not a light gathering is not an issue.

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When the camera is running it will not have a problem with the cold if you turn it off. Keep it warm in a pocket close to your body to keep it warm. The battery life is shorter when its Cold or below 0 and not on.

I have a helmet cam and when we ride snowmobiles in the mountains. If you turn it on it heats up but if you turn it off its gets cold and fogs the lens. So if i turn it off its goes in my pocket to stay warm or i leave it on the whole time.

Yes cold weather is hard on electronics even my kodak camera goes dead a lot faster in the cold.

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This is not a battery issue. I leave the power on the entire hunt since I have the extra battery pack so I just need to click the record button at action time. Something inside the camera is not processing the data due to the cold.

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Best Buy had them right after they were announced. They look nice but I don't see any reason to trade up at this time. I suppose if someone is a hard core user then it might be worth it, but my Hero2 is only a little over a year old so I'm not going to bother.

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