The detection range of a trail camera is the maximum distance at which the camera detects movement, triggering the camera to take a photo or a video. The typical detection range is anywhere between 40 feet and 200 feet.
Which trail cameras have the best detection range and their flash ranges at night are important.
When you’re using a trail camera for filming animals or for wanting to monitor your property for security reasons, the detection range of a camera is important. You don’t want any areas where animals or intruders can pass undetected. But what is a trail camera’s detection range?
Types of trail cameras and their detection ranges
Reconyx Hyperfire 2  | A camera with features to help users catch more animals on camera. The Reconyx Hyperfire 2’s sensor detects motion up to 100 feet and 150 feet with the infrared flash. The flash range is the distance you see when a picture is taken using the flash. | SEE DETAILS |
Dual power SpyPoint Solar Dark camera  | The Dual Power SpyPoint has an impressive detection range of 110-foot. If detection range is important to you you may want to look at a camera like this that captures images across a large area while another, less capable, cheaper camera might only pick up images of an animal or human walking right in front of the camera. | SEE DETAILS |
ScoutGuard Hunting Trail Game Camera  | One of the best long- range trail cameras with its spectacular 100-foot range. For those whose concern is trigger distance, this camera is a good choice. Although the Scoutguard has such an impressive trigger range, its trigger peed is only 0.7 seconds. | SEE DETAILS |
Covert Black Maverick | A dependable, rugged camo-designed trail camera but with a detection range and angle of 50 to 60 feet, the Covert Black Maverick is described as having a poor detection circuit. | SEE DETAILS |
Experts say that to maximize the range of your detection system, your camera shouldn’t be tilted toward the ground, and it should also never be installed behind any type of glass.
The area within the detection range should be clear. The trail camera’s detection range works by sensing motion within the proximity. The infrared sensor detects motion by means of emitted radiation and causes a trigger event. Trigger events occur when the sensor detects a change in the infrared.
How much a trail camera sees or what its field of view is will be determined by several things such as lens, the trigger time and the type of image-sensor receiving light from the lens.
Longer detection ranges – more details collected
Among all the different models of cameras, features such as these all influence performance. Certainly, those trail cameras that are able to detect movement at greater distances will be more beneficial as more ground is covered than those with shorter detection ranges.
There is always a range of other aspects to consider when buying a trail camera such as memory, battery options, video or stills, and detection circuit or detection range. Detection range is a big difference between cameras and those ones that have longer ranges trigger more often.
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