Originally Posted by centershot
I've had good luck with a couple of Coverts that I have. The battery life on them is outstanding.

That's mostly what I use. The model (extreme black 60) which I've used is now discontinued. I have a dozen. In 5 years, 2 have failed. Given temps below 0 and above 100, rain, wind, and being buried under snow part of the winter, I figure that's actually pretty good. As you say, battery life is excellent. Generally I set them up with a 32G SD card and Lithium batteries. Many have spend a full year unattended and are still taking pictures when I return to them.

I also have 3 Plotwatcher Pro cams. So far no issues. I only started with them 3 summers ago. If I set them up to take pix only in daylight hours, 5 seconds apart, then a 128G SD card and a set of lithium batteries lasts about 3 months. If I use alkaline instead, battery life is 3-4 weeks and a 32G SD card is marginally adequate.

I'm sure cameras will continue to fail, maybe more often, so I'll need to research replacements.

Tom

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