00:00okay so hello my friends i hope you're all doing well and welcome to another video
00:06i haven't done one of these in a while trail cams and what have you camera traps so i thought
00:14i
00:14might try and start off a new season here in 2026 by setting up a few cameras in this lovely
00:21woodland
00:23and also to test out a new camera that was sent to me by a company called max done and
00:32it's a really interesting little camera full disclosure by the way that i do get to keep
00:36the camera but i've been paid nothing for this review and i will put an affiliate link down
00:41below in the description for it if you're interested in that it's quite an interesting little camera
00:46it's tiny it's completely sealed self-contained so there's no putting batteries in so you don't
00:55have to deal with that it has a an enclosed 6000 milliamp hour battery which you recharge either
01:03from the wall via usb cable or by the built-in little solar panel it has but it's actually
01:12really tiny and the way you set up the the camera is via the trail cam go app which i've
01:21used on the
01:21other cameras as well that i have so that's really useful to be able to actually go on the phone
01:28link
01:28up to the camera and fix all your settings as you want them view whatever images without actually
01:36disturbing the camera from a distance and download them as well so that's pretty cool so it's a i
01:44think 64 megapixel photo camera and 4k resolution video camera so it'll be really interesting to see
01:53how that performs both in terms of the battery because it's been out for about a week it was 80
02:00percent uh charged when i brought it out and we've had basically a week mostly of rain uh and in
02:07this
02:08woodland it's fairly dark as well so i'd be interested to see how the power uh if it's still got
02:14power
02:15and if it's been able to recharge itself with a little solar panel uh given those conditions
02:20and also of course the quality of the image um so i've just reached the spot where that camera is
02:26i
02:26haven't gone in front of it so i don't trigger it um but uh let me show you it's thankfully
02:33it's still
02:33there um that's the little camera put the phone out um it's the first camera in the list of cameras
02:43that i've got on the screen here called max um amazingly
02:53it looks like it's still got power so let's just connect to it unless that's just what it's
03:02remembering from before okay it seems to have fallen slightly sideways from where i left it so i don't
03:11know if somebody's something has pushed it over but we'll have a look at the gallery and see what it's
03:17recorded so that was me setting it up oh it looks as though it's a buffalo
03:36a buffalo has shoved it over
04:08so that's the buffalo shoving the camera aside
04:17okay what else is on there even if it's crooked
04:24that's a little badger
04:30what else
04:32uh that's the badger and i think that's me arriving now
04:39yeah that's me just arriving now okay so not too much the weather has been pretty grim
04:45okay so we'll go in further towards i've got another three cameras set up further in
04:50hopefully they won't have been disturbed by the uh by the buffalo either so bear with me
04:57okay so i'm at the other little camera which is also a solar powered one
05:05and let's just connect to this one i think let's see this one
05:14so it'd be interesting to see this is 2.7k video the other one is 4k
05:21so it'd be interesting to see the difference in quality
05:25uh and i wonder if you can actually tell with the night shots so we shall have a look let's
05:30see if
05:30this one recorded anything first of all okay this one has been undisturbed thankfully oh we've got a
05:39jackal come through
05:45oh and a squirrel
05:49which is great they had they're red squirrels here but they're um
05:53they're not a subspecies as i had originally thought because they're black here or very dark
06:00but they are dark morph red squirrels
06:04so the badger obviously came from the other one has followed the trail
06:07and has come past here as well
06:11okay so just a few shots on this one i'm going to leave this camera up
06:16let's download a couple just to compare the um the footage
06:22i'll do that and then we'll move on to the uh third and fourth cameras which are not wi-fi
06:28so i'll have to um open them up and have a look at the footage separately on those
06:34okay okay and this is the other one number three
06:39it's a badger
06:43a big light shot
06:51the badger
07:00oh and the buffalo again
07:05badger again badger again badger again
07:09that looked like a martin which it's missed most of badger again
07:23so this is obviously the root of the badger
07:29oh and i think a fox
07:35yeah that's it
07:39so this one
07:44is even further into the woodland
07:48it looks like it's a badger again in the distance there
07:53and that's me arriving now okay so not many at all on this one
07:58so i'll break this one down as well
08:01and i'll relocate see if i can get further down into the wood and relocate this one as well
08:07so i found a spot for the one of the two uh cameras that i changed location of on this
08:16uh
08:17bush down here and it's overlooking
08:20these paths i don't know if you can make them out on here
08:25there's a path that comes down past here and it branches off this side under that fallen tree
08:32and it branches off this way as well through the woodland around the back here and round
08:41further into the woodland
08:44so um i'll leave that in place for a little while and on my way out see if i can
08:51place the fourth
08:51camera because further on from here it gets a little bit too uh thick the undergrowth and i can't
08:57make get through it so uh we'll see found another trail which i don't know if you can make out
09:05it goes
09:06down past this big tree here and along here so we'll put a camera up on this tree
09:14facing this way which is into the woodland uh and see if it picks up anything
09:42so we'll get home have a look at the pictures from the uh the video from the new camera and
09:50uh check
09:50out the quality on that okay so um i brought the camera back uh from in where it was in
09:57the field
09:57um and as you can see it's absolutely tiny little thing um i really like the fact that it is
10:05um a
10:06small self-contained little unit um there's nothing to open up uh and faff around with um batteries
10:16and recharging batteries etc it's got its own internal uh lithium 6000 milliamp hour battery
10:23uh i think um which seems to hold the charge really really well um i left it in the field
10:32at 80 percent
10:34and bearing in mind that it was a miserable week um totally overcast for the whole week lots of rain
10:43and it was in a dark woodland and not only did it retain its power it actually uh recharged itself
10:49via the little solar panel here to 100 percent so that's pretty impressive comes in a little box
10:57and it has the manual and inside the manual you'll find a qr code that'll link you to the trail
11:08cam go
11:08app so that you can connect to it and manage all your settings there's a little belt as standard there's
11:17usb cable as well which i've actually got inside it and the standard little mounting kit that i think
11:24come with all of these cameras um so let me connect to it um so the app you need is
11:33the trail cam go if
11:35i click that you'll see um the two other cameras that i have connected to it so at the top
11:41right there's
11:41little plus sign which you hit and then just add device choose wi-fi camera uh ensure the camera
11:50is on which it is uh and click next okay um when you first connect to the camera it won't
12:01have a
12:01password um i think it's because i've previously connected to it it's asking for the password for
12:06so let me just enter that okay and this is where you can name it so it gives you a
12:20couple of uh ideas
12:22front yard backyard but i'm going to choose just the name of the camera max i'll just call it max
12:30confirm and there it is connected so if we click on that um tap on the icon so if we
12:39go to bottom right
12:40settings um there's the device information at the top date and time and all you need to do is click
12:49on
12:50the tap on the current camera time and it'll just sync to you to your phone um memory card um
12:59which i will
13:01format because i have downloaded those images now so it's ready for next time um mode so i've got it
13:13set
13:13to motion detection which is what you want uh period capture um i think means capturing
13:20between particular times of day and time lapse uh is self-explanatory
13:29so photo or video uh i choose video because that's pretty much what i like in terms of the trail
13:36cams
13:38i'm not really interested in the still images operating time i have it set to full time
13:43uh if you enable that you can choose between which times you want it to start so i shall disable
13:50that
13:50again um motion detection you can choose the sensitivity uh of the uh trigger and the interval
14:01between detection so i have it set to five seconds there but you can choose any any uh
14:06uh any interval you like security this is where you'd add your password and factory reset self-explanatory
14:17again so again at the bottom uh you have status next to settings where you can see all the uh
14:26setting
14:27uh levels status of the camera uh the gallery um i've just formatted it so there's nothing on there
14:36but that's where you would see all your recordings and camera and that gives you a live view so this
14:44i found to be really useful as well when setting it up because you can actually position the camera
14:54so that's it really um having downloaded the images um they are really really nice i have to say
15:01um but it's a fantastic little camera i think and i can thoroughly recommend it especially seeing
15:08as you won't have to faff around with uh double a batteries anymore um and um it's just fantastic
15:16because it's all self-contained um so it's pretty well weather sealed as well so very happy with this
15:23little camera i'll put the description um the details the links to it uh in the description below it will
15:30be an affiliate link so i will make a few pennies on your order but it won't make a difference
15:35to the
15:35price that you pay um and yeah any questions please drop them in the um comments below i hope you've
15:44found this useful thanks so much for watching and i'll see you again soon after now
16:19you
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