Infrared Camera: Digital Scouting Cameras with Night-Vision

If you are looking to buy an infrared camera for hunting, our wide selection of digital game cameras with infrared flashes will help you to track game on your hunting property. These cameras use night-vision technology to capture day and night pictures and images of game and other wildlife. With infrared cameras, you can take black and white pictures while being certain not to spook the deer or other wildlife. At Hunting Camping Deals, you can buy infrared cameras for scouting game at discount prices from leading manufacturers including Bushnell, Cuddeback, Leaf River, Moultrie, and Stealth Cam. As infrared cameras are not the best choice for every situation, we also sell a variety of other discount digital scouting cameras.

Buying an Infrared Camera: Advantages and Disadvantages

There are a number of advantages and disadvantages to buying an infrared camera for scouting game. Some of the main advantages of using infrared game cameras include:

Infrared flashes are undetectable by animals. Therefore, infrared cameras are unlikely to spook animals like a white flash camera might.
Infrared light cannot be seen by humans meaning that your infrared field camera is less likely to be noticed by other hunters.

The following are the major disadvantages of buying infrared cameras for scouting game in the field.

Nighttime images from an infrared camera are black and white and have limited detail and clarity.
Infrared cameras have a quality / range trade off, which means that the further range that a flash provides reduces the image quality resulting in images that may be overly white or blurred. Conversely, infrared cameras that produce better image quality have a reduced range.

Choosing an Infrared Camera for Scouting Game

Based on the above mentioned infrared game camera advantages and disadvantages, one must determine if buying an infrared camera for scouting and tracking game is the ideal choice for their needs. As it is impossible to know for certain whether a traditional white flash scouting camera spooks game or not, you should consider your needs and intended application of the camera when determining what is the best field camera for you. The following guidelines can help determine if a night-vision infrared camera from Hunting Camping Deals if your best choice. See our digital scouting camera page to view our complete selection of infrared and white flash scouting cameras and camera accessories available at discount prices.

If you are using a trail camera primarily to see what types and sizes of animals are on a property, then a flash camera will provide better images that allow you to identify animals.
If you are conducting an overall survey to count the number of animals on a property, then an infrared camera is not the best choice. For this you would likely want to use a scouting camera with a bright flash in order better identify each individual animal.
If you plan to hunt in the exact location in which the camera is located, then you will likely want to use an invisible infrared camera to remove any possibility of spooking deer in that location.
If you are using the camera over a feeder or bait, then it generally does not matter if you use an infrared camera or a field camera with a flash, as animals are already aware of human activity in these areas.
If you are overall concerned with a flash spooking deer or other animals, an infrared camera will capture images with a light that is completely invisible to animals. This provides you with the most natural pictures of animals, as you are able to capture images of animals behaving naturally without the spook from a bright camera flash.
If you are going to be placing cameras in locations where other hunters may be present rather than on private property, you may not want to use a flash camera as this will alert other hunters of your camera's presence. In this case, an infrared camera may be the best field camera choice.