A mallard hen made a nest in a bush out front and laid 6-7 eggs. I wanted our family to be able to monitor/watch her and see the ducklings hatch without disturbing them. This camera provided exactly what we needed.
Night vision is what I expected from a $70 camera. It can be blurry and depending on the distance from your target object, the motion detection might not always trigger appropriately . I set my camera up approximately 1.5ft from the nest and was able to see movement and clearly see objects/other animals. A cat came by every night searching the nest.
The fact that it takes 8 AA batteries isn't great, but is expected. Depending on how much you're recording and using the bluetooth/wifi option, the batteries will drain fast. If the camera is set in a place where it's difficult to retrieve, this can be somewhat of a pain. It has a 12 volt jack available, but the package doesn't come with the plug/cord for it, nor would it be very practical even if it did.
All the options take some getting used to and you'll want to play around with it prior to deploying so you can get an idea of what settings will work best in your environment and application. For example, our camera was capable of being deployed very close to the nest so close up pictures/video could be taken, but this also means that the leaves close to the camera trigger the motion detection video when they blow in the wind....sucking up precious battery for nothing.
After going through a full set of batteries and filling up the SD card with a lot of "nothing" pictures and videos, I narrowed the settings for my application to the following: Motion detection, photo+video, record video for 15 seconds, with a 1 second delay before starting to record.
The on-device menu provides a suitable way to navigate and find what settings you need and the instructions that come in the box are in plain, proper English with screenshots where appropriate for app navigation.
The case is waterproof and the latch is solid. The antenna is screwed on, but is otherwise inflexible so be careful to put that on as the last step during deployment or it seems like it could break off easily.
Recommend getting the max size SD card (SDHC/SDXC) of 256Gig, especially if you are recording a lot and don't have easy access to the camera. If you set it to over-write once full OR it fills up and stops recording, you might miss something you wish you hadn't.
The wifi/bluetooth feature allows you to change the settings, view the recorded pictures/videos and see what the camera is seeing in real-time. The connection to the camera seems stable if you're very close to the camera, but the entire process of connecting and viewing anything besides the settings is painfully slow. I mainly used the remote capabilities to see how full the SD card was and how low the batteries were getting. Trying to view any of the pictures was just easier if I pulled the SD card. Regardless of those downsides, being able to be "somewhat" remote and access the camera is very useful.
Well worth $70, but again was very specific to my use case of easy access and ~4 weeks of constant use in moderately warm weather. Would recommend this to anyone starting out or needing a camera for a small/short application.