Over the past few years have run a number of moultries, brownings, bushnell, stealth, and plotwatcher pro cams.
Maybe just bad luck of the draw, but while I loved the initial image quality from the brownings within a year of so they developed sticking filter issues that left the majority of night time videos pitch black. With Florida generally warm and relatively muggy, maybe an issue that wouldn't happen as much for others on the forum in less hot and humid areas but all I can say is multiple ones developed the issue (though it is frustratingly intermittent) while other brands haven't given me the same headache.
Moultries have been my primary go-to cameras. Picture quality was starting to lag relative to competitors, but with the most recent releases I've been relatively satisfied with improvements. Pictures from mine are a bit soft, but still much better resolution than prior generations.
As for bushnell, I actually have had good luck with their latest HD Aggressor series. I find their menus to be a bit less friendly / intuitive and a bit of a pain in the butt to go through, but as for video quality and trigger reliability I've been quite impressed.
Much more of a niche camera (and appreciate other cameras are increasingly adding time lapse modes) but from a travel movement education standpoint during hunting season / awesome ease of setup, I still use several aging Plotwatcher Pros and love them. Just wish they'd start working to update resolutions for a new release sometime -- for all I know they may be, or they may not ever introduce another series due to ever-increasing competition. Can be challenging to make out id on distant individual buck with the plotwatcher pros, but if I had to give credit for which camera has provide the best overall intel I'd have to say the plotwatcher pro. With captures set at 2 second intervals during daylight hours it lets me see exactly when deer are moving through my plots, the direction they're doing so, lets me see when bucks begin sparring, when bucks start chasing hard and heavy, and as rut winds down when they start reforming bachelor groups and feeding again at more predictable intervals. Running a couple in different micro-plots also lets me know which plot is hotter / more ideal to hunt. Unlike trigger cams, they never miss action and to the contrary if one makes time to carefully place them with good / deep fields of vision it can be very helpful in knowing if a stand relocation is in order. Would honestly give about 3/4 of the credit to "luck" the past few years to intel gained by the plotwatcher pros.
