Moultrie Game Spy D-40 Megapixel Game Camera
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Description of Moultrie Game Spy D-40 Megapixel Game Camera
Moultrie's D-40 digital trail camera is a great game camera to begin monitoring deer patterns on your land. The D-40 a has all the essential features you need to start taking pictures and tracking game. This 4.0 megapixel digital camera has a quick trigger time, 45-ft flash and 60-day battery life.Find the best stands on your property with the Moultri Game Spy D-40 digital game camera. With an infrared motion sensor with a range of 30 feet and 22 degrees, the camera delivers clear footage of moving game, day or night, with multiple operational modes to meet all of your needs. With an average battery life of 60 days, the Game Spy D-40 gives you the ability to spy out the game even when you're away for days at a time. Adjustable elastic mounting cords make it easy to mount the camera in trees or other stationary locations. The camera responds rapidly with FDA Class 2 laser aiming and a passive infrared sensor that activates as soon as motion is detected. Pictures are clear and easy to read in full color day and night, with 4 megapixel images that can be shot in low, medium, or high resolution.
The Game Spy D-40 is equipped with multiple modes to meet all of your game finding needs. Auto mode activates the motion sensor, allowing you to leave the camera alone to capture images while you are not present. In automatic mode you have the ability to capture still images day and night with or without flash operation, 10-second AVI clips-video images during the daytime that will automatically switch to still photos with the flash in low light situations, and capture multi-shot images of up three shots. The camera is also equipped with a handheld-removable manual operation, and a setup mode that allows you to customize menu settings. The electronic flash can be set to automatic or in off-security mode. The flash range is from five to 45 feet.
Designed for multi-day, automatic use, the Game Spy D-40 has a built in memory of 16 MB of video and picture storage. Up to four GB of additional SD memory can be added. The camera images can be accessed via the 2-inch LCD display or output to a TV or a computer via USB. The camera imprints still and video images with date, time, and camera ID so that you always know exactly when the stand is active. With a weather-resistant, airtight camera housing and seal the Game Spy D-40 allows you get the most out hunting season, saving you hours of time in spying out the best locations without detection or interference so you can discover the natural game patterns.
Specifications:
- 4.0 Mega pixels
- Picture resolution (pixels): Low/Medium/High
- Format: JPEG-Still pictures, AVI-video clips
- Color day and night pictures
- Video clips during the day
- Multi-shot pictures (up to 3 shots)
- Imprint time, date and camera ID on every photo or video
- Built in memory: 16 MB stores in pictures or video
- Maximum external SD memory: up to 4 GB (optional)
- Weather-resistant, airtight camera housing and seal
- Laser and IR aim
- Laser aiming: FDA Class 2
- Infrared sensor: Passive, activates when motion is detected
- Infrared sensor range: 30 feet, 22-degree width
- Picture delay: Variable, 10 minute to 60 minutes
- Sequential delay: 15 seconds between still pictures
- Electronic flash: Automatic or off-security mode
- Flash range: 5 to 45 feet
- 2-inch LCD display monitor
- LCD display panel: Displays menu items for setup settings
- Image output: TV out, USB out, optional SD card
- USB output: Requires PC with Windows 2000/ME/XP
- Power supply: Standard or rechargeable 6-D Cell batteries (not included)
- 60-day average battery life
- Adjustable mounting: Elastic mounting cords
Manufacturer Warranty
One year
Sports reviews of Moultrie Game Spy D-40 Megapixel Game Camera
Customer Review: Great Camera
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
Great camera for the price. I have one already and now the second one is in place and working fine.Customer Review: I LOVE IT
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
the is the best camera that ever bought. the battery life is 60 days.I LOVE ITCustomer Review: Moultrie Spy Cam
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars
I am very pleased with the camera, It does exactly what I wanted it to do.Customer Review: Good value, though picture quality is just ok
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
Someone in my office had been anonymously leaving insulting caricatures of me on my desk, so I decided to purchase game camera to bust them. I went with this model because it was one of the cheapest available. Unfortunately, I never caught them, but that wasn't the fault of the camera, it's because the culprit wised up and ceased committing the crime once I put this camera in place (I'm guessing they saw it). I don't feel too bad, as I plan to use this for other uses around the house (such as to bust my dog if she gets on the couch while I'm at work, or to see what kind of creature is eating the grapefruit that fall out of the tree in my back yard).
The picture quality and overall fit and finish of this camera is just ok. It's not great, but it will suffice for telling you what's going on in a particular area, with good enough image quality to tell what is in the area (but the image quality is pretty grainy, it's just good enough to identify who/what is in the image. It does not do well if the object is moving quickly). The camera body is made of cheap plastic, and the snaps as well as the battery compartment lid feel a bit flimsy - be careful not to break them. The user interface is ok, it didn't take me too long to figure it out and I'm a retard when it comes to these things.
This does not include a USB cable, and note the USB connector is of the "B" type (what is commonly found on external harddrives, as opposed to the little USB cables that usually come with digital cameras). So keep that in mind if you were planning to use a USB cable from a digital camera or other device, it might not be the correct type.
Even though the image quality and product fit & finish are just "ok", I upgrade my rating from 3 stars (which would be an "ok" or "adequate" rating) to 4 stars because this was just about the cheapest (not the cheapest) game camera available on amazon. You get what you pay for, and at this price point I didn't expect much. If you need high quality images, I'd recommend paying more for a higher end game camera. But if you just want to get the cheapest camera to see what goes on in a certain area and don't care about picture quality, this should do the job.
Customer Review: Pretty good so far
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
I bought the Moultrie Game Spy D-40 to take the place of a 35 mm game camera I had. The 35 mm game camera took good pictures, but was expensive to operate due to having to develop the film.
So far I'm pretty happy with the D-40, it has a lot of options including a film mode I have not tried. I ran into one issue where I could not get the camera to turn on in auto mode, I took the SD card out and then it would turn on. It ended up I had to re-format the SD card and now it's back working. This is something to keep in mind if you have an issue.
It's a little to early to tell but it look like it may be draining the battery faster than it should. The instructions say you can get a couple of months out of them, but I measured the voltage on one of the batteries (while troubleshooting the SD issue above) and it was 1.3 volts. These were new batteries that have only been in there a week, so it seems like 2 months is unrealistic. There is a external power port I might try to hook up a larger rechargeable battery too.