Wildlife Camera Settings

[fourteen85]

if i change the camera settings to record in 1080hd rather than 720 p will it use more battery power to film or just take more room up on the SD card? cheers

[bhg481]

I'd be surprised if there is a significant increase in battery usage but, as a first approximation, it will take up about twice as much space on the memory card.

[fourteen85]

Thank you for your reply

[bhg481]

Incidentally, depending on what size screen you view the video on, you might, or might not, notice any difference. A few years ago we upgraded our TV from about 50" to about 55" and re-watched some of the holiday videos I'd taken and edited down onto BluRay; on the new, larger, TV they had a slight softness about them. Looking at the video details I discovered that I'd accidentally reduced the resolution to 720p from 1080p when creating the discs. I still had the original data so I re-rendered the video in 1080p and the sharpness re-appeared. The video had appeared perfectly acceptable on the old TV so it was only the increase in screen size which showed up the slight loss of resolution.

[Tuvok]

I have all my cameras at 720p - less space and the quality is fine for my hedgehog videos.

[bhg481]

I have my car dashcams at 720p. It saves a lot of space/gives me more recording time on a card and I can easily read registration numbers etc, so the definition is clearly adequate.