I have mine set for 50 second intervals with 3 picture bursts. Racked up 3600 pics on one camera in 8 days between Nov 4th and Nov 11th. Only four didn't have critters in them. That was a lot of pictures to go through.

How do y'all have your cameras set up?

60 second intervals with 2 photo burst. Also program them not take pictures outside legal shooting hours as I can't shoot during those times anyways.

At a feeder, 1 minute interval with 1 picture. On a game trail, 30 seconds at 3 picture burst. On a field edge, 1 minute interval with 3 picture burst.

45 seconds and 1 pic on trail, water trough or feeder if the camera will let me program in my own delay time. If not then the slowest preset factory time. On a scrape I use 30 seconds 3 shot burst.

I'm very late to the trail cam party; just started playing with one I bought for a trip. I have learned right off that if you go with the "Auto", "medium", "good compromise", or default settings, you can't keep batteries in them. (Plus you're gonna have a ton of meaningless pics to go through.)

Originally Posted By: txshntr
At a feeder, 1 minute interval with 1 picture. On a game trail, 30 seconds at 3 picture burst. On a field edge, 1 minute interval with 3 picture burst.


This is about what I do. I then check pictures and if I feel I need to adjust I go from there.

If on a trail I use more frequent setting like 2-3 shot burst every min or 30 sec.

At feeders I set them for less frequent like every 5-15 minutes(this does miss a lot of deer because some don't even hang around long but it catches enough to keep up with some of them)

single pic with 5 min delay. I know I miss some but I'm trying to pattern movement as much as see what's there.

Both of mine are set up one photo each minute

Only have one cam, set up to take one pic every 5 minutes.

was one minute in September and went back to check 3 weeks later, 6 cameras had thousands on pictures. Now set on 5 minutes at feeder.