R4G LITE

I bought 4 of the R4G LITE back July and gave an initial review shortly after, but 6 months of use I give these cameras 4 stars. Issues have been relatively minor except that 1 of the 4 cameras has stopped working. I noticed a lot of corrosion in the battery pack and the camera lights will turn on, buts that about it. I have not contacted Black Gate about this issue yet, but I will soon, and I'll give an update on my experience. If it wasn't for the broken camera, I would have given 5 stars. I ran these cameras over bait all year, and I woke up to hundreds of quality pictures every morning. One thing I noticed with these cameras is that after 6 months and thousands of pictures, I never saw a deer look at, or be spooked by the camera. Never once! I think this is a big deal, a very big deal. Bucks this year just seemed to come back day after day, instead of making an appearance once a week and starring at the camera the whole time. There was a time or two I know I walked past the cameras while in the woods, and never received a picture of myself. How often this happens is unknown but, I have come to expect this in all cameras no matter the brand. Maybe a spider was blocking the trigger mechanism lol? I put these 4 cameras in 6 different locations, and 5 of the locations worked fine, but one of the locations did not, due to no cell service. It did send a handful of pics in this location, but they were all several days old each time. Battery life could be better, but these cameras took a lot of pictures every day, so I won't hold that against them too much. I recently got solar panels for all of them hoping that would help but have not had a chance to try it out yet. I will be purchasing more in the future, along with the original R4G this year for the video ability.

I’m a new Black Gate trail camera user for about 1 week so far I’m very satisfied with the cam performance and plan to purchase another. I own the R4g lite as photos are adequate to me and especially considering the smaller size and less visually conspicuous the unit is compared to the larger build of the video capable unit.

Haven't had it long enough to give it 5 stars yet. So far though picture quality is as good as any other camera I have, super easy to set up and battery life seems good thus far for a cell camera. Would definitely buy again.