Just a quick update on my review of the 6210MC after a couple of weeks usage at the Sett for anyone that's interested.
I'm continuing to get some amazing video of the badgers and slowly learning how to deal with the shortcomings of the camera - it's producing around 20 -25 videos most nights and these are mostly badger with the occasional fox thrown in plus a few empty videos. I am coming to terms with it's limitations of clarity of the night video - Ron's trick of taping a layer or two of plastic milk carton over the lighting lens has worked wonders with lighting issues at shortish ranges - I'm currently using two layers and it dramatically reduces the glare at close range tho I suspect that'll need to be reduced if using from further away. So far I've been running video at 1440 x 1080 which should produce good HD video - now, in my view, this should produce a great quality video at full monitor size but it doesn't and is pretty grainy - it does produce a pretty good quality IF you only watch at the standard You-Tube size of 854 x 480 - full screen produces a pretty grainy video tho. I've tried everything to try and improve that and nothing works - I even tried running direct from a 6V SLA battery in case voltage drop was the problem - was cheap enough so I'm going to continue using the SLA as it means I can shoot longer vids that I'd dare with the alkaline batteries (and, in the long term, it'll be cost free...).
The odd daytime video that it's taking (the timer is on) is producing fairly good video and what I am seeing is that quality of night vids varies considerably depending on external backlighting such as dusk, moon and cloud cover - where the camera is sited is pretty much pitch black normally but the odd video at around 4.30pm when it's not quite full dark have been great - occasional night videos are less grainy but MUCH darker and this has to be a result of moonlight, cloud cover etc. I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that the infra red lighting is the biggest cause of the problems - it's almost like it could do with additional, background Infra red and I may just play with this in due course. I think the biggest limitations that I've seen so far are the narrow field of view (52 degrees) and that the infra red is too focussed (outside of maybe 20 degrees it becomes pretty dark) - this seriously restricts camera placement for what I'm trying to achieve at a specific location but to be fair, that's probably not what the camera is designed for.
One of my original fears was the potential weak point created by using a ribbon cable for the monitor/controls at the bottom which have to be opened every time you want to switch on or off or change the SD card - I notice on the Pak-a-Tak site that the cable is listed as a spare at £12 so it clearly is a known problem but obviously not unfixable tho it would require opening both the monitor and the camera body to replace.
All in all I'm finding myself fairly happy with what I have for the price even if I do find it's limitations a little frustrating - maybe I just expected too much... In my view it does need work to improve it and turn it into what it should be but I suspect that this will happen over the course of time. I could probably make a list of what could be improved without too much thought but of course, implementing such changes would result in cost increases - as I said in the original review I think there is a market for this model and a market for a much improved version but overall it's producing good enough video that I now have 6 badger vids on-line... the latest is at
http://youtu.be/kFKvjlNNltY
by smojo » Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:33 am 
I'd go with what you have anyday and Santa will come again next year...
But have to say that I'm struggling a little with the setup etc.