I agree with the info above, love the pictures from the flash and get just OK night pics with the IR. I have however had instances of deer shying away from a trail that I had a flash camera set up on. I think it is because I set the camera pointing straight down the trail instead of perpendicular to it. I do this , of course, to maximize the exposure time. The deer would move off the trail go around the camera and come back to the trail. On the other hand I have taken a thousand pics at bait with flash and it doesn't seem to matter.