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Brinno EMPOWER TLC2020 Time Lapse Camera - 99-Day Battery Life - Captures Professional 1080P HDR Timelapse, Stop Motion and Step Videos - Flexible Schedule - Great for Long-Term Indoor Projects

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Color: Black


Style: Camera


Features

  • Professional time-lapse camera: 99-Day battery life! 1080P HDR and 118 field of view gives the ability to capture stunning professional videos. Innovative technology allows videos to be instantly shared making this camera perfect for long-term projects.
  • 3 Mode versatility: Capture modes include timelapse, step video and stop motion. Providing ultimate creative freedom to create your own footage. Capture long-term environmental changes, a short video clip, or even a fun stop motion lego animation movie!
  • Long battery life and flexible schedule: Record up to 99 days using a 5-min shooting interval with only 4AA batteries! Extend the battery life by DOUBLE using the daily timer and scheduling feature to select the days and hours to be recorded.
  • Incredible image quality: Powerful HDR and FHD sensors select optimum lighting to capture videos outdoors or indoors, daytime or night. Attach interchangeable lenses to the CS mount to capture environment changes or detailed plant progression videos.
  • Extended warranty: Brinno provides customers with regular firmware and software updates. Our compact camera includes a 30-day money-back guarantee and 1-year warranty that can be extended for an additional 6 months if you register your camera.

Brand: Brinno


Photo Sensor Technology: CMOS


Video Capture Resolution: 1080p


Maximum Focal Length: 35 Millimeters


Maximum Aperture: 2 Millimeters


Flash Memory Type: Micro SD


Video Capture Format: AVI


Supported Audio Format: [MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC]


Screen Size: 2 Inches


Connectivity Technology: Wi-Fi


Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 2.8 x 1.7 inches


Item Weight: 3 ounces


Item model number: TLC2020


Batteries: 4 AA batteries required. (included)


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Date First Available: December 5, 2018


Manufacturer: Brinno


Language: English


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    • Incredible quality time lapse videos.
Color: Black Style: Camera + Housing
I have used multiple Brinno 720 P time lapse cameras over the years. They work well but they are not high enough resolution for my construction business. I just purchased this 1080 P TLC 2020 and used it on my first job. The clarity of the time lapse video is incredible to say the least. I am purchasing another TLC 2020 so I can do time lapse videos from multiple angles. This unit is also much easier to change the settings than the older model. I highly recommend it. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2021 by G4roofs
    • SDcard Door
Color: Black Style: Camera + Housing
Review Image by Patricia Whiddon Patricia Whiddon
I think this camera is great in function, but not completely thought out; great quality, and I appreciate the quick menu options. Cons, price of course. And for the price, I would expect the chassis to be waterproof; it's a shame this is an afterthought, and the necessity to purchase a case required to partake in the events that I believe is the majority of consumers intent (outdoor documentation). In addition to the case issue, I literally had this camera 1 minute, and the SDcard/USB-C cover broke off. A better fixation solution should be considered here. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2021 by Patricia Whiddon Patricia Whiddon
    • 99 days battery, maybe if you take a few pics every hour..
Color: Black Style: Camera
Image quality is as expected. But, I made a video with every 5 seconds, and the batteries didn't last the full day. Compare that to my OLD Brinno, that will run every day, for weeks now, happily doing 5 second interval videos. Somehow Brinno has managed to make the battery life terrible. IF you only take a picture every few minutes or a few times an hour, it can probably last a long time, but for anything in the second's range, it's terrible. Then, the camera splits the files into chunks about 500 Kb each. Why? Again, the OLDER camera did NOT do this, it just makes a gigantic movie. Now, however, you will need to get all these chunks of files off the camera and use some software (not included) to combine them. If you, as I do, split your files into daily batches, this is just... SO annoying. Finally, the camera will NOT let me move files of the memory card using the cable. Yes, you can COPY them, but to delete, you need to take the memory card out. WHY.. So make sure you also have a micro-USB card reader handy, otherwise the memory card will fill up and you're stuck. The older camera also let you turn the viewfinder up and down. Not so anymore... Overall, besides the improved image quality, this camera is a step down on almost all other features... And I love my old Brinno, so this is just terribly disappointing. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2023 by Andy
    • Works amazing
Color: Black Style: Camera + Housing + Mount
Easy to program worked as advertised also very well built.
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024 by Vic
    • Construction Movies
Color: Black Style: Camera + Housing
Bought for recording our home construction. A little clunky to operate, but good results. Had an issue with a firmware update, but Brinno was all over it and sent a replacement quickly. Very happy.
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2021 by Toddles
    • VASTLY mis-represented battery life. 99 days? More like 4.
Color: Black Style: Camera + Housing
I've had a TCL2020 for about 3 weeks now, and had it in use for the last 2 of those weeks. I'll get to the other stuff later, but what inspired me to write this review is the abysmal battery life this thing has been getting. It will barely survive 3 days outside before the batteries die. MAYBE 4. It's marketed as 99 days with a 5-second interval. I've programmed it for 6 days/week, 12 hours/day, and have varied between a 10 and 15 second delay between shots, and I'm coming back to either dead batteries or <15% life left. Using brand new, fully charged Energizer rechargeables (the batteries in the package didn't even last 2 days). Needless to say I'm chapped about this. I knew 99 days had to be an exaggeration, but I was realistically hoping for 2 weeks between battery replacement (that's the frequency of my trips to the construction site). Nope. Now I have to either a) blow my site visit budget and do this during the week, b) sacrifice part of my weekend making the trip to do this, or c) sacrifice my tiny fragments of free time during the week. The footage looks pretty good. Probably as good as can be expected from a device like this, and I'm impressed by how it handles varying white balance and ramping exposure internally during changing light. And the videos are definitely good enough for the intended purposes - it's not cinema, but that isn't anyone's expectations. The camera saves as .avi files - I'm presuming for coding efficiency - up to 500MB files, and then splits into a different file if a day's shoot goes longer than that. Total file sizes for a day are about 700MB +/- in AVI. To reduce file size, my workflow involves taking them home first to process them in AfterEffects: joining the 2 avi's it splits a day into, run it through a de-flickering plugin, and export it as H-264 mp4 to boil the files down to about 140MB/day. Our project management staff and the municipal client seem to love the videos, so this is overall a win and I don't want to leave a scathing review at all. But the battery thing is just such a headache and a complication for the person responsible for the camera (me). We have other projects coming up where we'll be shooting long-term timelapses. I will NOT be considering Brinno gear for those projects, but that's exclusively due to the battery deficiencies. I could reconcile the rest. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2024 by Brad Smith
    • Bueno para su uso
Color: Black Style: Camera + Housing
Excelente cámara timelapse con las siguientes pegas: No puedes ver el material desde cámara, debes descargarlo a una pc/mac. El formato es AVI. a tener en cuenta para convertir luego. La imagen en sí es útil para registrar pero no esperes la mejor compresión en ese formato para 1080. No es muy amigable el disparador para saber que está funcionando (hay que poner extra atención o sino verás que no la arrancaste). La carcasa de agua funciona fenomenal, la dejé 3 meses registrando un mural y aguantó tanto la batería como el equipo. La tapa donde va el conector usb y la batería micro sd es de goma de mala calidad (el sol la achicharra rápido), así que nada más la uso con el case de agua. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2022 by Andrew
    • Great camera for time-lapse, easy to setup and easy to use. LOVE IT!
Color: Black Style: Camera + Housing
Great camera for time-lapses, batteries last super long and I love all of the options for taking a time-lapse!
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2021 by LRM Solutions

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