The camera requires 8x AA batteries and a micro SD card or up to 32GB before it can be used. 

Initially I was not too impressed with the performance at night with the out of the box settings. Both videos and still pictures were very grainy and difficult to see much detail.  I did try setting up a solar powered motion detecting spotlight which worked quite well.  However I have  now found that  reducing the resolution on videos or stills to 1280x720 works quite well.  Below is an example of a night picture at this setting.  I don't seem to be able to upload videos but the clarity is very similar.   

Both pictures and videos  in daylight are good at this resolution.  The device has a USB port which makes it simple to download to a PC, tablet or phone.  There is a small LCD screen on the device that enables viewing captured images/pictures directly.

There is a reasonable range of settings for both video and still pictures.   The  manual is  quite basic so I'm still testing some settings to get a full understanding of what these cameras are able to do.

The batteries seem to last 10-14 days using the camera for around 8-10 hours a night.   There are some settings  that may improve this.   With the the maximum 32gb microSD card I would expect you would run out of power before you would run out of storage.    

The camera seams to be reasonably weather proof - it has stood up way better than the solar security light I had which died after the first decent overnight rain.

Overall I am happy with this trail cam, in fact I have now purchased a second one. 

I have often wondered how good the cheaper ones were. I had bought a more expensive one for work a few years ago and I was never very impressed with the battery perfermance and then it just died anyway. So that's quite a reasonable price. I use them to see what's happening in peoples ceilings or under their houses.

I'm using some rechargeable AA batteries I already had in the first one.   I was using some cheap alkaline batteries in the 2nd but when they needed changing yesterday  I went out and got rechargeable for it.

 

I use them for seeing what is moving around the property at night.  They  come with a  strap to attach them to trees/fence posts but as they also have a screw thread on the bottom I have put an old security camera mount  on a post in next to the chickens feeder and use a mini tripod for the other so I can use it in different locations.  Last night I tried the 2nd in a new location and had a possum come right up to it and knock it over! 

Really keen to set them both down by stream that runs through the farm next door as I know there are quite a few deer down there.