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2010 Detection Zone Test
While many companies brag about trigger speeds, very few ever mention their product's detection zone.
A trail camera's detection zone is the area in which; when movement is detected, triggers the camera to take a picture. Detection zones vary from short and wide to long and skinny and everything in between. Although you don't hear much about this in manufacturer's advertising, it is the #1 determinant in how many pictures you capture. After all, no matter how fast your trail camera takes a picture, it really doesn't matter if an animal never enters your camera's detection zone. The larger the detection zone, the more area you're effectively able to scout.
The two factors affecting detection zones are detection range and detection width (angle). See the graphic below for a real-life depiction of how a detection zone works with its surrounding areas.
As you can see from the above picture, some camera's detection zones are actually wider than their field of view. These models can give you a head start on fast moving animals, but can also produce empty photos when animals enter the detection zone, but don't quite make into the view of the camera's lens.
Conversely, trail cameras with narrow detection zones almost always produce perfectly centered pictures with very few empty frames. However, these narrow detection cameras also fail to detect a substantial number of animals that wander into the view of the camera lens, but don't make it to the narrow detection zone.
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