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harbor freight camera

bigbuck

By bigbuck
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The whole setup can be left in the carrying case. Take everything out of the bag and cut a couple of holes at the bottom so you can route the cords through the baffles.

The camera's actually pretty neat. The ballast weight can be adjusted so the camera views straight ahead, slightly down or slightly up. Pretty neat feature if you ask me. There are a couple of notches on the camera fin that will allow you to view vertically.

I actually went out and purchased both the HF and Aqua-Vu scout XL. Yesterday, ShawnnyB and I took them out and tried'em out at shallow fishing pier. I have to say, out of the box, I figued it would be no contest and I'd choose the Aqua-Vu. After trying them out, I have to say that I'm leaning towards the HF camera!

Hopefully the weather will hold and next Saturday I'll have the opertunity to try them out on some deeper water. I'll post my findings in the thread that I started a few days ago.

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I have had mine for about a year and I like it. Especially for the price. Only complaint that I have is that it doesn't have the nice setup that the Aqua Views do, it comes in a bag. It really hasn't stopped me using it though. I will just have to come up with something to mount it in my portable that I got this year. I have not tried the Aqua View cameras though, so I do not know how they perform.

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I've had mine for a couple years now. and it works great. Doesn't have all the bells and whistles as the high end cameras but it works great. You should have gone to Menards for there 5 hour sale. they had an Aqua View for 80.00. It has the exact same camera as the harbor freight one. just has a different monitor. I just leave mine in the case and have the monitor facing up.I like the case, it is well padded and everything fits snuggly in it. Makes it easier for me to carry around.

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smg04, I bought one this last past year (around April) based strictly on price.

Although, I don't like the soft-sided cases some flasher come with I was impressed with the carrying case the HF camera comes in. It is well protected with foam. You can just unzip it and look straight down at the monitor (while standing in my boat on the trolling motor foot pedal). For ice fishing I plan on setting the unit on end, so I look straight at it. There is no reason to pull it out of the case at all.

On a sour note... my camera went south after 2 uses. I sent it back to HF and it got lost, but HF came through and replaced it at no charge.

I will give it a more thorough test very soon.

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