Bushnell 30MP CORE Trail Camera with Dual Sensors for Capturing Photos and Videos

MLP: Updating my review: Determined not to give up, I bought the lithium batteries and a new Scandisk card, even though the other one was brand new, and now it's working. Video quality is good. Continuing to learn. Will not return

Brand new trail cam, batteries and memory card. I've tried repeatedly to turn it on. Sometimes it won't turn on at all. Sometimes it turns on briefly and then shuts off. I bought one of the more expensive trail cams because I wanted good quality. Overall, this feels cheaply made. The on/setup/off button doesn't easily move from place to place and I had to struggle to get the batteries in the compartment, among other problems. I've been a camera enthusiast for about 12 years. This was to be my first trail cam. I don't think I have any option but to return it and try a different brand.

United States on Oct 02, 2023

K. W.: On the first night, I was able to identify what was going after our garden produce. I now know where to set up traps. In my opinion, many of the negative reviews are inaccurate because the instructions were obviously not read. I learned a lot by first reading the instructions so I knew the correct settings and camera location, so I would be successful identifying the pest and from what direction it was coming from. Excellent camera!

United States on Aug 24, 2023

saywut: I've tried three separate memory cards in this camera and it will only ever corrupt the card. This camera is useless if it cannot write to a memory card. Absolute waste of money.

Australia on Jul 05, 2022

DeerhavenPhotographyDeerhavenPhotography: I am not a hunter - I want great images of the wildlife that lives on our farm. This is our 3rd Bushnell cam. They advertise 1080 p vids, but the daytime vids are not HD quality, and the night vids are awful. Also, the strap rotted away after less than 2 years use. As one of the first to produce a trail cam, Bushnell has done little to improve their cameras. With the technology developments in the past decade, there should be much better video quality in both daylight and low light. Step it up Bushnell. The photo is a screen grab from a vid.

Canada on Nov 06, 2021

russell fry: first try... set up for a week and had an SD card full of not much at all, due to sensitivity being too high, and capture size too low. Birds swooping by triggered i think. Look good tho, just need to get familiar with it.

Australia on Nov 16, 2020

Rachel: I couldn't get the battery case to close. Asked my husband to help. He just slammed it closed harder. I was being too gentle. It takes awesome pictures and videos day and night. It was fairly easy to set up. I set it up in my backyard. I have night time video of coyote, racoon, rabbit, squirrel and porcupines. The kids love taking selfies during the day. I have it set to take videos and pictures at the same time. There are pictures only, videos only, daytime only, and nighttime only options. I have had it for about 2 months and have not changed the batteries yet.

Canada on Sep 20, 2020

Brendan FinnBrendan Finn: Small memory car means you will run out of space quickly on the card. First photo is from the CORE camera and second is from an older trail camera the fake size on the disk is six(6) times larger than the other camera but with LESS clarity - how is this possible?!. Does not work. Initially it took almost a dozen times to save the date and settings. After that it did not record videos or take pictures. I put it next to another trail cam I had and walked by it for half the day. Nothing was recorded on this camera. I like the idea that it has no glow infrared lights but that’s it. It does not work. Initially I thought that it was the batteries I was using so I went through three different kinds of new batteries and they all had the same outcome - nothing. How at the edge of 2020 can a major company make a camera that doesn’t work. EVERYTHING has a camera these days and this company can’t figure out how to get theirs to work. Stay away.

United States on Dec 11, 2019

4M Farms4M Farms: This camera is what you expect for the money. I know you can buy 4 other cameras (like I have) for the price of this one if you just want to get general fair quality day & poor quality night images of activity. BUT if you want to take the hit in the pocket book (like I did, and got scorned by wife) for top notch 30MP pictures & high quality/speed 1080p 60 fps video (able to do both at same time even) w/ true NO GLO then this is the camera your hard earned money gets you, especially if you need to identify trespassers in day or during cloudy no moonlight black darkness @ night. Excellent camo. Excellent battery life on only 6 lithium AA. Easy fit & lockdown on a tree w/ strap or python cable 22ft. up in a tree like seen in pics attached. Night pic was a very windy, completely cloudy pitch black dark night. I put my worst night pic attached so you can see what that quality for a night pic will look like in worst conditions.

United States on Aug 26, 2019

Kindle CustomerKindle Customer: Bought this camera after reviews on Trail Camera Pro. It's their top pic for 2019. It's small, smaller than the Moultrie M-series. It would hide very well. I did but the CAMLOCKBox for it, and some Gorilla Tape in Mossy Oak pattern to better camo up the box. I've kept my trailcams this way for years and have many pictures of trespassers just feet away from the camera that never see it.

I chose this camera for it's detection circuit (100 foot, 33yards), no glow, and speed. There's a lot of other cheaper cameras that will do the job, ,but don't detect that far.

As far as being a "no or low glow" camera. I tested it out in the house with curtains closed, and I did not see any glow.

I'm giving the cam 4 stars for now because of well looks and testing in house. After it's had sometime to "soak" out in the woods, I'll update my review.

Update : The pictures and video have been outstanding, and the distance was exactly what I was looking for. It's very hard to see with the small size and camo.

Update : 9 January 2020. I ran this cam 4 to 5 months. I was getting ready to buy a second when I saw the other reviews and was...

United States on Aug 07, 2019