I had my cam running all summer - so I thought. I checked it a month ago and it turns out that the camera was OFF, however I thought that the batteries were dead. I changed the card anyway, which was empty. The cam powered on, although I thought it was just enough battery to power up and it would die. I pulled the card a few days ago and to my surprise the cam was working. Got home and had over 1800 pics and a ton of bucks in bachelor groups.