Cuddeback Capture
Cuddeback has released the Capture for 2008. I would assume that it was Cuddeback’s intention to compete with Moultrie on the entry trail camera. The standard flash Cuddeback Capture can be found for around $199. The Cuddeback Capture IR is the infrared version and can be purchased for around $220. With both models being relatively new there are not many reviews available. Only time will tell if the Capture will be Cuddeback’s answer to Moultrie.
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Do you have a Cuddeback Capture? How has it performed in the field? Please let us know.
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I just bought two cuddeback capture cameras, and they are awesome. They are easy to set up, and take really nice pictures. Cuddeback really hit one out of the park with this line of cameras.
Just picked up one of the captures, and tested it at home for a couple days prior to taking it in the field.
The camera will die after 1-3 photos are taken, then the batteries have to be removed, placed back in again to take another 1-3 photos before it dies.
The photo quality under the flash is horrible. It looks like the complete color spectrum in the background of every photo.
I’m assuming this camera is not supposed to function in this manner, so I will return it to the retailer.
It would have been nice for cuddeback to catch this before I brought it home.
I purchased a cuddeback capture and I like it so much two weeks later I bought a second camera. These cameras are easy to use and take great quality pictures day or night. The battery life is also exceptional. The 4-D batteries in my first camera lasted 6 weeks with over 1500 pics taken. This include temps from 15-85 degrees F. I have not changed the batteries in the second camera and it has been in use for over 2 months, but has only taken a couple hundred pics. For the price and quality this camera is a steal.
Has anyone had any problems with the capture yet?
My buddy had a few problems with his.
ANd i’m VERY hesitant to buy another cuddeback after my then $300 excite had to be sent back 2 times and now not under warranty flat out doesn’t work! For all of you that buy a cuddeback and think it’s great right away, I will agree. Just give it time, time is the true piece that cuddeback still to my knowledge hasn’t completely put together such as the Moultrie I-40.
Please leave comments of any problems or any non-problems and in particular PLEASE reply to how long you’ve had it.
I am very curious to see if cuddeback has stepped up and finally made their cameras stand up to what they claim!
Thanks a bunch, Cody.
I got a brand new Cuddeback Expert and I am very aggrivated about the camera. It won’t save the images to the card, it will save them to the camera when I don’t have the card in it, but it won’t save them when I do have the card in. I tried reformatting the card 4 times and it did nothing. I then called Cuddeback and they said the problem was in the card and to get a new card. That didn’t fix the problem. I would like to think that I just got one of the very few bad cameras from Cuddeback, but it sure doesn’t appear to be that way based on what everyone is saying about them. I thought that Cuddeback was supposed to be the Cadillacs of all trail cameras. Maybe the Capture is better, I don’t know, but I WILL NOT be getting another Cuddeback trail camera.
I bought a cuddeback capture some time in the early 2008 summer and the machine operated perfectly until the 2009 turkey season when it was completelly submerged under water in a flood on my property. I know what your thinking, that should have been the end of the camerea’s life, but it was not. I simply took the the camera completely apart and let it dry out for about a week, put some fresh batteries in and it will still take pics. The batteries die in two weeks but still, I think that is pretty cool. Anyways I am buying another one ASAP!!!
I am on my 3rd excite as well. I took my first one back to the retail store after a month and they replaced it for me. The second time I had to send back and pay to have fixed after only 2 months of use. I have just put the refurbished model back out, hope it works better than the last two.
I have the ir and like kyle i have found it in the field dead pulling the batteries out and re inserting them. tried to take it back to cabelas but it was past 60 days so i have to go to cudde with it. with season so close i am going to use it and hope for the best. I have gotten over 900 pics in one week with out a problem but last week i got six. its hit or miss.
I bought a Capture (flash) last November….I didn’t use it until this past July….I left it out for 3 weeks (and dumb me I didn’t test it first) I picked up the camera and no pictures, nothing…I started working with it…set it up at home..on the deck…had some flashes…checked no photos…flash worked, but no photos…tested some more…looked at “trouble shooting”…thought maybe “formatting to fat” was the problem…formatted the sd card…tested by walking by…flash…no photo but got a time and cuddeback logo on a black photo…tried the card in a camera….camera worked fine….I went to cudde and asked technical…the answer was “send it in to cudde” still under warranty now…very disappointed….I liked the ease of set up…but what good was that with no photos…I don’t like not being able to take a common digital camera and pulling the sd card and looking at photos in the field without having to “purchase” the cudde viewer…just another gimmick to make you buy something else….I’ll keep this cudde when I get it back, but I’m looking at other cameras that may be just as easy to set up and don’t have to have “special” sd card setup…
I HAVE HAD 3 DIFFERENT CUDDEBACK IR’S. NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS. WENT THRU BATTERYS EVERY COUPLE DAYS, TOOK BAD PICTURES AND WASTED ALOT OF MONEY. I RETURNED FOR REPAIRS,EXCHANGES AND NEW CAMERAS. ALL THE SAME. FINALLY RETURNED THE LAST ONE AND GOT MY MONEY BACK. WORST BIRTHDAY GIFT I EVER RECIEVED. WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND ONE TO ANYONE.
I bought a cuddeback expert which worked fine the first fall. This august after I put it out, it would take 2 or 3 pictures and then would not take any more. Since it was guarenteed a year Cuddeback wants half the price of a new one to fix it. Do I throw good money after bad? Very unhappy with it!!!
We’ve had the Cuddeback Capture 1125 for a year, now. The camera worked fine at first. Then, after 4 months, we started getting quite a few “white” pics. Stayed this way until late fall of ‘09, then just plain quit. Will power up but won’t take any pics. At all. Have tried numerous times to get live help via phone and they never answer, will cut you off after 15 minutes hold and tell you to call back.