GardePro A3S Trail Camera (Non-Cellular, Non-WiFi), 64MP Photo & 1296P HD Video, 0.1s Trigger, 100ft No-Glow Night Vision, Motion Activated Wildlife Camera

I was looking for a no glow IR camera that was invisible to the human eye and found this camera after quite a bit of research. Most of the no glow cameras were twice or three times as much so I was a bit apprehensive. But, after some testing I'm very happy with it. I set it up beside another proven camera and it triggered every time. Most images were center frame. Pros: 1) The price is great. 2) The audio was excellent! Way beyond any of my other cameras and even distant or low volume sounds were captured by the camera. 3) Exposure is adjustable for different locations and will auto adjust mid video if necessary. Medium setting seems to work the best for me so far. 4)LED's invisible to the human eye. This camera is totally undetectable at night. No red glow visible at all. 5) Clear night time photos and video. 6) I like that it uses full size SD cards so I'm not fumbling around with a tiny micro card in the woods. I will say that it needs a pretty fast SD card though. I used a class 10 card first and noticed some stutter in the audio. I switched to a faster A2 card and no more problems. I think many of the negative reviews are from people who are using slower or incompatible cards. If you are getting partial photos or weird video/audio artifacts switch to a quality card with a transfer speed over 30mb like a U3, V30 or faster if you plan to do a lot of video. Sandisk has never let me down. Just because a card works in one make of camera doesn't mean it'll work in all of them. Cons: 1) Bit rate of the video reveals it is on par with 1280x720p even though the video settings allow for 1920x1080p video. Not uncommon but disappointing. In all fairness, the description says 1296p not 1920p (though it lists 1920x1080p setting in the description) It is typical for a camera in this price range and not a deal breaker. 2) My biggest gripe seems like the most trivial but it is the on/off switch. Every other camera has "off" all the way left and "on" all the way right. "Settings" is in the center position. They are easy to turn on and off with gloves because you can just push it all the way over. THIS camera has "On" in the center position, which means I'm going to have to remove gloves and be careful to only slide the switch one click every time I turn it on. That is going to be irritating every time I check the camera.

I set this camera up on December 26, 2024, and didn’t check it again until May 18, 2025—and I’m seriously impressed. After nearly 5 months outdoors, the battery was still halfway full, and it captured almost 1,200 photos and videos on a 16GB card. Daytime image quality was excellent, with clear shots of deer, possums, hummingbirds, and even a river otter-like critter. Night vision was decent too, though I’ll be repositioning the camera next time to avoid foreground interference that threw off the focus a bit. One unexpected but valuable bonus: it captured footage of a trespasser stealing items from our property. We wouldn’t have known otherwise. Thanks to this camera, we’re now taking extra precautions—and just ordered a second one. Highly recommend this for anyone needing a dependable, long-battery trail cam that performs well in various conditions.

Having used many different cam brands over the years, I've found this one to be reasonably reliable. It's a departure from the big named brands, but the reliability/quality of this cam appears to be on par with the best of those others who've been around for a while. It does not have the cellular option. The setup menu has a lot of options to choose from and is pretty much self intuitive. The onboard display works well for viewing pics/videos as well as setting up the cam. Daytime photos are good (ignore the hype of uber high mega-pixel image ratings as the human eye can't really detect much difference in photo quality beyond 8 mega pixel- only if you want to enlarge portions of an image does high pixel count become a factor). Night time photos and videos are decent; but due to the IR emission of No-Glo LEDs (940nm), you won't get the background illumination that you would if "Low-Glo" LEDs (850nm) were used (~30% reduction in background lighting using No-Glo LEDs). Still, unless the object is at the far end of the detection range, night time photos are still decent. The side PIR sensors can be deactivated if desired, which is handy if you find that your videos are beginning without any activity appearing in the field of view (a consideration if you are doing a photo burst, with nothing appearing in a couple of the photos). I keep mine ON as there are often times that a critter will trigger a cam well after it's come into the field of view, so you miss a bit of movement unless you can start that video a bit ahead of time! If you are taking a LOT of night time videos, you'll burn through batteries- so I would highly recommend employing an external battery source with the cam, in addition to the internal set of 8 (there are external lithium rechargeable battery packs available that are compact in size, as are chew-proof cords for those squirrels that pose a threat). The camo print on the shell will help conceal the outline of the cam against a background of brush or bark (unlike some of the others who use a lighter gray or tan shell without break-up patterns). It uses a standard SD card which you can format while mounted in the cam or via your laptop. Side note: Regardless of the type of LED lighting chosen, one option is to mount the cam ~8 ft up a tree using a screw-in mount so that you can angle it in any orientation desired. Mature bucks tend to not detect the low-glow flash and any scent left on the cam (or its strap) will not be detected. Plus, trespassers will not readily see the cam if it's out of their normal line of sight, which is typically down or straight ahead. For this purpose, I carry 1 strap-on step section and use a harness that will allow me to lean back.

Bought 5 of these to monitor a coyote pack on our property. For the cost ($63), these are very nice cameras. Having 5 cameras lets me triangulate coyote movement on the property, but I would never have bought that many if they cost a couple hundred $ each. Daytime pics and videos are very crisp. I can easily distinguish individual markings on the coyotes. Night-time images also very good. The distance at which the motion triggers the camera to start recording is easily twice as far as other cameras in this price range I have used previously, and there are side motion triggers which start recording before the animal is fully in front of the camera. I have found those nice as it starts the video early enough to get more footage of the animal, especially important if the animal is running. Most of the videos that I am interested in are at night. Couple times with the cameras already triggered I have video of animals sprinting full speed in front of the cameras and can still identify individuals. In still picture mode sometimes an animal moving that fast is already out of frame before the camera triggers. Daytime trigger response seems a little better. I have several of animals racing across a trail with all 4 feet off the ground and I still get 1 pic of them. I have 3 of the cameras set up with overlapping fields of view so I can analyze what is getting caught and what's not. Added bonus is the nice audio quality. Previous camera I was relying on had pretty much zero audio recording. I had a recent video of a dark animal at night, lying on the ground, could not tell what I was seeing through the brush. I finally remembered to turn the sound up and could hear distinctly hog grunting that let me identify what the animal was. Too soon to know if the battery life will be as good as claimed - 8 months according to some reviews I have seen. Will update as I have more time on the cameras. June 10, 2024 - still on the original batteries I started using in early February. Not the most expensive nor the cheapest batteries - Rayovac alkaline. Cameras in continuous use just over 4 months. Still getting great pics and videos, especially considering the price of the cameras. No issues with cameras at all. June 27, 2024 - batteries in a couple of the cameras finally started to show signs of weakening. We have had a heat wave of at or near 100 degree days past couple of weeks which probably hastened the battery demise. Still images still fine, even at night. Daytime videos fine. But at night, with the extended time the light stays on for the videos they suddenly started recording for only 3 seconds each. Went ahead and changed all the batteries. 3 of the cameras have been in continuous use for almost 5 full months, and I use Rayovac alkaline batteries. For almost all of the time I have had the cameras I had the video recording set to 2 minutes, which turns out in almost all cases to be way longer than needed. But that does factor into battery life. The obvious largest battery drain is the light necessary to film at night. August 31, 2024 - About 2 weeks ago one of the cameras purchased in February 2024 started exhibiting digital "streaking" on the display, but still recorded without issue. Now, 2 weeks later I only get a solid blue-white screen without access to any functions or menu. It reminds me of an old first generation digital camera I once owned that was susceptible to moisture/humidity. I have never allowed any water inside the casing, never open the door to access camera card if the outside of the camera body is wet. I have contacted the company that distributes to Amazon, will update my review once I hear back from them. Pics of the defective camera. Other 4 cameras continue to function fine. September 17, 2024 - New camera arrived from the company to replace the one that went bad. All 4 other cameras continue to function normally. Oct 4. tried to add some videos a week ago, site informed me only 1 video could be added/review, then did not add any. Trying again. 1 daytime video of deer, 1 nighttime still pic of coyote. The coyote is close to the distance limit for triggering the camera - could be a little further but in this case that's as far as the camera has a straight-line unobstructed view. About 20 feet in this case, estimated not measured. Jan 8, 2025. Replaced batteries for second time. I think there was still some life left in them, but one week there was seemingly a deer hanging around in front of two of the cameras multiple times/night for several nights. The repeated minute-long night lighting from the cameras got the batteries, they started recording videos less the 1 minute long. So averaging about 6 months per battery change. Also, manual indicates trigger sensitivity should be set to "medium" for hot weather. Now that it's finally cold I switched it to "high". Got one deer that must have been close to 100 feet away at night triggered the motion sensor. Had to dial 2 of the cameras back to medium trigger sensitive - both are in areas with an appreciable gap in overhead tree canopy. This time of year (Jan-Feb) late afternoon shadows cast by trees as sun getting close to the horizon kept triggering the cameras to record continuously. Cameras in deep woods without the shadows are ok on high sensitivity.

Easy to set up, great clarity of video/photos and sound for such an inexpensive camera.

This is a very simple and effective trail cam. The battery life is out standing considering the enormous amount of pics/vids you will get. Heavy usage isn't a problem. I rotate 2-32gb cards to make downloading and viewing simple. If you want simple, easy, and great results..give this a try.

We have several very active game trails on our rural property so I thought I would place a camera at the two most used trails to see who was around. Hoping to get some better footage of our nocturnal neighbors. I purchased this GardePro trail cam for the main trail head. First attempt: I placed the GardePro trail camera at the head of the main trail focused on the spot where the most activity seems to happen - and my older camera at one of the side trails. I read the GardePro manual for set up and formatted the SD card as it said to. When I set it up at the trailhead, I adjusted for motion capture as instructed. Then I set the camera to on and left it for a week. The picture posted is the clearest picture I was able to retrieve. All the other photos and video were greyed out. I spent two hours trying to recover the data to no avail. Perhaps I didn't retrieve the data properly? I read through the manual again to set the camera up, and placed it back at the main trailhead. Second attempt: After a week, I went to retrieve the SD cards. This time, I took the camera down and brought it back to the cabin so I could plug it directly to my computer and retrieve the photos that way. The older camera had indeed captured some activity, but the GardePro camera didn't capture anything at all. Save for the few photos of me checking the motion capture, the SD card was empty. I reread the user manual and walked myself through setup again to make sure I'd done everything correctly. (I had) But perhaps I was wrong about which trail was being used? Maybe it didn't see anything because there wasn't aynthing to see? So I switched the cameras, this time setting the GardePro camera on the lesser side trail. Adjusted for motion capture, made sure everything was good to go and left. Third attempt: After 5 days I was back out to the property to check the cards. The older camera, which had been monitoring what I still thought of as the main trail head, has lots of photos! Opossum, otter, beaver and that weird coyote dog the neighbor said she saw. I wasn't wrong about the activity level at the main trail head. There really *were* a lot of visitors. I checked the GardePro camera on the smaller trail but once again the SD card was empty. The GardePro took no additional photos or video. But, was it possible that the lack of pictures was because I'd set it on an unused trail? I had proof that the main trail was being used a lot. So if I set the GardePro camera back on the main trail head (and it works) it should record something almost every night. I RE-reread the manual. RE-reset to factory settings, RE-reformatted the SD card. And even thought the camera turned on ok, and the indicator icon on screen said that the batteries were full, I put in fresh batteries just to be sure. When I set it back on the main trail, I focused the camera where I knew there would be movement to capture. I checked for motion capture and made sure everything worked fine before I left. Results: After a week, I returned to the trailhead to find it is a mess of scent piles, and piled up twigs/leaves. The soil on either side of the trail is freshly tamped down. If the GardePro camera works as it should, it should have captured something. But once more, the SD card was empty. The GardePro camera didn't capture anything -even though the physical evidence shows a significant amount of activity took place 8 ft in front of the lens. I have exhausted my troubleshooting resources. This GardePro camera just doesn't work. Now I've just returned from the property to discover that it is one month and ONE DAY after purchase and I can no longer return this item. I am super irritated at having wasted my time and money on this useless product and even more irritated that I've apparently missed a boss fight episode of Game Trail Showdown. I going back to my old camera.

I originally bought this camera because it has the Sony Starvis video chip in it. The picture quality and nigh vision resolution were fantastic. I could see stars twinkling on the night videos. I have a lot of property so I bought 3 more cameras. One of those three I had to return because of a loose connection in the battery compartment. I happens, no big deal. Now I am getting to the reason I only gave this camera 3 stars total. When I went to buy my 5th camera it did not perform nearly as well as the others, I was spoiled by the fantastic quality of the other cams! It would appear that this manufacturer has had a bad run of cameras because everyone one I get now has had an issue. If they could just fix the quality control issue I would give this camera 5 stars hands down! One of the biggest problems with this camera is that they leak! I have had to return several cameras because after a rainstorm there was water inside the camera. I would also get fogging inside the camera on the lens and led compartment. These things should be airtight and many are not.