My uncle bought one with infared and said battery life is great and pictures look really good. I had some older ones but I let one sit with batteries in it over the summer and they leaked and ruined the camera. Also had an older one that got ruined by a shotgun.... It was probably my favorite one and someone came through shot my cousin's stand and the camera and ripped the steps to the stand down Never could pull the pictures off the camera to catch who did it but I stick by these cameras...never had any problems and we have had 4.