Over the weekend I checked the camera two different times. As of Saturday, the camera took another 720 photos with the battery meter displaying 4%. But when checking the camera, the cameras information screen wouldn't stay illuminated after a few seconds. I thought for sure the camera had finally died. After trying to arm the camera with another sd card the screen again shut off. I turned the camera off and on to arm it and noticed it took 2 photos. So I decided to leave it overnight and check it today. To my surprise it had taken another 266 photos throughout the day and morning. The information screen on the camera wouldn't stay on any longer and the battery meter now showed 3%. It was time to call it quits on that set of batteries. So the grand total of photos taken on Amazon alkaline batteries was 27,430. I first installed the batteries on July 12,2017 but pulled the camera sometime in December due to inactivity and a upcoming Minnesota winter. The camera lost its flash function around the 19k photos. The ending battery voltage across all 6 batteries was 1.19 volts.
Overall, I have to give credit to the accuracy of the battery meter. Especially since its displayed in % not just a series of three or four bars. The trigger speed didn't seem to be effected by the low battery voltage. Over the past week the camera caught two different birds mid-flight.
The photo quality of the camera is fair, the pictures are a bit light in color. Motion blur on my camera is evident, even during the daytime but not all of the time. For some reason antlers on a buck walking are hard to distinguish.
The photo posted below is of a buck this morning and one of the last photos taken by the camera showing motion blur in the antler area.
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