Bushnell Trail Camera CORE S-4K, No-Glow Game Camera with 4K Video and 1.5”

9 reviews for Bushnell Trail Camera CORE S-4K, No-Glow Game Camera with 4K Video and 1.5”

1. 

   Chris – 4 January 2025

   Great price, works well
   I gave this to my husband as a Christmas gift. Easy to set up and access the photo card to view indoors. We’ve enjoyed seeing all the wildlife visiting our bird feeders. Even got a good laugh at the neighbor dancing in her yard over by our property line.

2. 

   Kvas – 4 January 2025

   Various things people may find good to know
   Not really made explicit anywhere but when you turn it on the LCD screen shows what the camera is seeing, which is great for setting it up, and a feature that’s been missing on Bushnell cameras (and many others) for years. That was a major reason I bought this one, having to race back and forth to a laptop twenty times to get the image set up right would drive me nuts.The picture in the manual shows the SD card being inserted upside-down (contacts at the top), it actually goes in face-up.When the description says it uses SD cards it really does use full-sized SD cards, not micro SD like almost everything else does. If all you’ve got is micro SD card you’ll need to use a plastic SD card adapter for the camera.The files get big really quickly, a few 30-second videos at medium resolution (1080p) consumed over a gigabyte of space. If you’ve got a 32GB SD card lying around that you decide to use, it’s not going to go far. This is a bit of a problem because while micro SD card capacities keep going up, common full-size SD cards have mostly topped out at 32-64GB. Everything over that size is not common and often stupidly expensive. Looking at a local supplier, they don’t even have a 512GB SD card while micro SD cards in the same capacity and from reputable vendors (Samsung, Sandisk, Kingston) are plentiful.Files are saved as MOV’s (QuickTime), circa 1992. I mean, pretty much anything can still play these things, but yeesh! The encapsulated video is H.264 with AAC audio, but the choice of MOV instead of MPG as container format is puzzling.The camera runs fine off rechargeable NiMHs, just drop in some Eneloops and you won’t have to throw away a set of batteries each time they run down.Someone who did a partial teardown of one pointed out that the screws are inside the gasket rather than outside as is normal for IP67 cases, which means the screw holes present a potential ingress point for moisture. The silicone protective caps for fibre optic connectors are exactly the right size to plug them, but if you don’t happen to have those lying around you may want to press a blob of vaseline into each hole to prevent moisture ingress.If anyone from Bushnell is reading this, Google “ip67 gasket” in image mode to see what I mean about how the gasket should be laid out.

3. 

   Amazon Customer – 4 January 2025

   This camera is awesome!!
   Works as advertised. Night shots are clear but daylight shots are as good as my iPhone!!

4. 

   Jon Cross – 4 January 2025

   Not a reliable camera
   When this camera works it works well. Images and video are sharp and clear. Bushnell customer service has been great. Unfortunately I have had to work with customer service way too many times. I am now on my forth camera. They have all been replaced under warranty which I appreciate, but I really just want a camera that keeps working. Each camera has had a different issue. One just stopped working all together, another started taking pictures and video in black and white only, and another started taking choppy video after a while. Hopefully the forth one remains solid.If the camera was consistant I’d glady give it five stars because it has everything I want.

5. 

   Mark De Binder – 4 January 2025

   I am really pissed of with this cam.
   When it does take a video its great. I just downloaded 10 videos of bucks out back and only 1 of them came out. This is junk and I would like it replaced ASAP

6. 

   dfreas – 4 January 2025

   Motion sensor is terrible
   I have been really disappointed with this camera. If the only thing you are buying it for is deer then it might be fine, but if you are hoping for pictures of anything else forget it. I bought this camera specifically to find out what is killing my chickens and hopefully get some time stamps to establish a pattern. I had one recently killed chicken that I put ten feet in front of the camera and left it over night. The next morning the chicken was gone and not a single picture had been taken. A separate time I even watched a hawk land 3 feet in front of the camera with the camera positioned close to the ground so the hawk basically landed right in front of the lens and not a single picture was taken. I have managed to take pictures of deer with this camera though, so I suspect that foxes and hawks just aren’t big enough to register on the motion sensor. Pictures are decent when they actually get taken, but this thing is useless for the purpose I purchased it for.

7. 

   Carlos A. – 4 January 2025

   Una buena Camara trampa.
   El pedido llego antes de la fecha indicada lo que me fue muy favorable, desde que llegaron la tenemos en campo, en condiciones de bosque de niebla, con lluvias y días secos, hasta ahora con casi dos meses de uso han respondido perfectamente, con buena calidad de imagen y sonido, las recomendamos. Las recomendaciones para el fabricante es un angulo mas abierto para la toma de imagen, también que el sensor para lo diurno debe ser mas sensible, ya que en condiciones como al interior de bosques la luz del día es tenue y provoca que las cámaras graben los videos en modo nocturno. De resto esta muy bien, como la facilidad y las diferentes opciones de configuración son otros puntos a favor.

8. 

   Chris – 4 January 2025

   Read the IP rating and a poor design
   I cannot give it one star because I did not educate myself about getting something waterproof, like IP 66. I had it outside for two weeks. I opened the door and the picture shows what I saw. Luckily the SD card and batteries were not damaged. Amazon stepped up to the plate and issued a refund. The pictures and video were good. Two design flaws. The battery tray slides out from the bottom. When you push the release button, about 3/4″ pops out. I understand with it being on the bottom and not wanting the entire thing to slide out and end up on the ground. In order to get the entire tray out, you have to yank until it feels like it breaks free from something. That build will lead to breakage. The battery tray itself has half moon molded clips to hold the batteries. One can see the clips flexing. Since hard plastic is not designed to flex, it will break.

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   raymond frereault – 4 January 2025

   la camera ne prend pas de photos je veu un code de retour j utilise la camera pour la chasse et elle vien juste de commancer la raison pour la quel je n est pas utiliser avant