Overview

The Browning Spec Ops Elite HP5 builds on the hugely popular HP4 and is comfortably our favourite no-glow trail camera at NatureSpy. This is the wildlife camera for you if you're after high quality video footage day and night, with no-glow LEDs.

This is the no-glow LED version of the Recon Force Elite HP5.

The last version of this wildlife camera was used on  and the new version builds on that - with night performance getting the biggest boost.

One of the main changes is the power LEDs - called Radiant 5 LEDs, which give better night time performance and allow the camera to run off rechargeable batteries – it makes your wildlife watching much more environmentally friendly!

It also offers slightly faster trigger speeds, and improved video definition. Detection and sensitivity have also been tweaked.

The Spec Ops Elite HP5 also the useful addition of a start and stop programmable timer – allowing you to set when you want the camera to be active, and avoid those times when the magpies are in the garden, or the dog is let out etc – essentially, so you can focus on the wildlife.

Trigger speeds are lightning fast at an improved 0.2-0.3 seconds – something few trail cameras can match (regardless of what the manufacturers tell you!).

The build quality and overall design of the camera is excellent and has improved further, with a 2 inch front-facing colour screen to help with set up and so you can review images/videos without dismounting the camera in the field.  The camouflage has improved and is well suited to UK and temperate conditions.

The warranty length in the UK through NatureSpy is 2 years.

The Spec Ops Elite HP5 is also straightforward to use – quick and straightforward to set up. The only difference between this and the Recon Force Elite HP5 is that this camera has no-glow, rather than low-glow, LEDs.

Due to it’s 12V power system (the reason night footage is so good), night time videos are limited to 20 seconds per clip. However, if activity remains, the camera can recover in under 1 second and record another 20 second clip.