there isnt a setting , if you are trying to compare image quality, the transmitted images are all thumbnails and the SD images will be 5MP if you left it on default setting. You cannot change the resolution of the transmitted images when using cuddelink. You will really only notice a difference in image quality when zooming in. set your cam to capture the animals in a target area under 30 feet and you will find the image quality sufficient in most cases.
Hi, John, thanks for the comeback. I understand that the email pics are lower quality than the SD card - that's why I wanted to compare them side by side. My question is more about the file names when photos are emailed. Since both my time-lapse and motion activated photos are numbered 1...
n, there's already 2 pics with the same number. Then the email software assigns another 1...
n number. Then 30 minutes later it repeated the same 1...
n, but for different pictures. And it did that 5 times. I reckon if there's a linked camera, his pictures are also mixed in with the others with new numbers. It's just not what I expected. Who would have thunk that the emailed file name would be different from the SD file name, and emailed files always restart numbering at 1? But I understand that we can adapt to this pretty quickly. My expectation was that I would see an interesting thumbnail, look at the file name, and get that guy off the SD card next time I'm on site. Instead, I'll look at the buck thumbnail, ignore the file name, notice the camera name, and look through the pics from that one camera on the SD card. If I'm not looking for the side-by-side quality comparison like I tested initially, it's fine to say "looks like a buck on camera 3 on the 27th or 28th". It won't take long to find that guy on the SD card. So, yeah, it will end up working fine. Just different than I imagined. This is why the manual says "With many cameras it can be difficult to determine where an image was taken. ...use cam ID to define the location of your camera..." So, yeah, it's difficult to tell where they came from because the email file names are different from the camera, and the same email file names are re-used every email.
My first test was a little different too, in that I set time lapse on 2 of 3 minutes to show progress in field work for a few hours. So, yeah, lots of pictures of the tractor going back and forth, and if want to do my quality comparison it took a while to make sure I was comparing the same pics email vs SD. Probably a mistake to email in this case, because I'm right there working and pulled the card anyway. Normally I run maybe 2-10 pictures per day of wildlife and wind. Finding the corresponding pic on the SD card will go pretty quick.
While we're talking about file name anomalies, here's something I'd like to see. My very first game cam, back before the turn of the century, would keep the picture count in onboard memory somehow. You could get 78 pictures this year, then pull the batteries and format the card and put it all in the basement over winter, then when you put the camera out again in July, it would start with photo 00079. If you ever make it to 99999, it would turn over and start at 00001. Not that you'd ever get close with that old technology and poor sensors and poor life. But anyway, whenever you checked the card, you could just dump it into the same folder on the computer, because it never duplicated file names. Then I got a nicer newer camera, ran a card, dumped it in a folder, ran another card, dumped it in the same folder, did it again....oops. I had a folder with 3 duplicates of every file name. And the time stamp didn't work on the camera. What a frickin' mess. As life went on, I learned a DOS skill to append something to every file name in a folder. So then I could pull my card, put all the pics on the computer, assign a prefix or suffix to all the files at once (like JULY), and then dump them into a common folder. I wonder if I can do that with Windoze. I don't like the way it is now, to have a different folder every time I pull a card, and I can't just look through the entire season all at once, but have to go into this folder and that folder. So yeah, younger people may not appreciate it, but those of us who remember liked it when the camera kept count of its history. It was also nice to see that I was up to 2677 pictures so far on the camera. Now I use a spreadsheet to keep track.
But I digress. Need to spend more time with my cultipacker.
