I’ve added a new Browing trail cam to my fleet. This is my first Browning cam. I had to try one, I’ve been hearing great things about them since they came on the market.
Last night, I figured out how to use Browning’s time lapse feature and this is really, really cool. I had to share this.
Unlike other cams that just take a series of still pictures when they are in time lapse or field scan mode, the Browning cams combine the time lapse sequence into a movie.
The problem that I’ve always had with running the cams in time lapse mode to watch fields, food plots, etc, is that the cam takes a LOT of empty photos every day. Basically, if you’re shooting for 2 hours at dawn and dusk and 1 pic every 5 minutes, you’re adding almost 50 pics a day. Most of which are empty.
Browning’s feature of combining the stills from each “session” into 1 video makes it much easier to watch each session. Check out the attached video.
The one thing that is a little tricky is that the Browning cams appear to save the time lapse sequences in a weird .TLS file format. Browning provides a player software that can read these directly, but what I discovered is that in reality these are just .avi files. Some video players will read them directly, but if not, just change the extension of each clip to .avi and they play in any video player.
While we’re talking about the time lapse mode, another thing I like about Browning is that the camera automatically adjusts the start and end time based on that day’s available light for sequences at the beginning and end of each day. So that eliminates having to visit the cameras every 1-2 weeks to reprogram the start/end times due to the changing daylight hours.
I’m very impressed with the Browning cam so far.
As a note, I had to dumb-down the resolution to get this file to upload, so the real picture quality is better than what’s shown here.
Grouse
