“Very impressed with the NatureSpy Wildcam 2 - no subscriptions, great UI with plenty of features and the camera quality is excellent. I’d also recommend the solar panel as it’s been keeping my camera battery fully charged since set-up.
I purchased this camera to watch my newly set up pond but would purchase again if I needed a home CCTV camera as it’s far to my Blink camera (subscription required, awful UI and paywalled features).”
“The Wildcam 2 is absolutely excellent with the wifi capability and the app - we have seen foxes, hedgehogs as well as numerous birds.
I cant recommend this enough.”
“Rather a poor instruction manual. There is insufficient detail of the setup process and I am left fumbling about trying to recall the pictures taken. I am not at all technical and your approach assumes some technical experience. I will say that you have a very helpful "Deep Dive" video but that did not help with the more basic operation.
And a further question, is there any way to check the framing of the object? I can see how this can be done once the camera is closed.”
“Nature Spy's own brand camera is definitely good value for money, Lovely sharp images, good audio, and they run on rechargable batteries. With the price of lithium batteries ever increasing this is a great develoment. Couple that with a friendly ethical company, and you can't go wrong.”
Hi!
We've been trying to get in touch with you since your review, as we can't find any email or contact from you since before you ordered the camera.
We've sent an email, hopefully this comes through to you and we can get this sorted!
James
Posted 1 week ago
Hi!
We've been trying to get in touch with you since your review, as we can't find any email or contact from you since before you ordered the camera.
We've sent an email, hopefully this comes through to you and we can get this sorted!
James
“I contacted NatureSpy via email for advice on whether the Helarctos Camera could be viewed on an iPad. The reply was very prompt and I have now purchased the Helarctos as a Christmas Present for my husband.”
“What a fabulous camera! It's easy to use and the footage is great. You can watch live on your phone and you get notifications when you get visitors. It helped me notice one of my hedgehogs coming in the day and so meant that I could get her to a rescue. Definitely recommend getting one!”
“Disappointing.
I bought the helarctos solar as I have two of the wildcam 2s, which for my purposes (recording wildlife in my garden) are just about perfect. My hope had been that the helarctos would be very much like the wildcam 2, except with higher resolution images. It does record higher resolution images, but in almost every other respect it is disappointing. The battery life is great. But the PIR just isn't sensitive enough. For example, I replaced a wildcam 2 at my pond with the helarctos. I put down fresh sand at the shores of the pond. I find footprints from cats, probable foxes and birds in the sand, but no images! Even with PIR sensitivity set to "high". Then there's the connectivity. The wildcam 2 is great because it connects to my wifi, and I can connect to it from my phone wherever I am and review any images. In contrast, the helarctos relies on connecting to your phone directly, and can only do so at close range. It takes forever to connect, only to find that there are no images. So I've demoted this camera now and put the wildcam 2 back in place. I would absolutely love a wildcam "3" - i.e. everything that's great about the wildcam 2 but with a higher resolution camera!”
