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Enlaps Tikee mini+: one-minute review
Specialist timelapse cameras may sound like a niche, but they can be an absolute necessity: if you’re planning on capturing long-term timelapse videos of constructions, industry or nature, over days, weeks, months or even years, you’re going to need something specialist like the Enlaps Tikee mini+.
The camera is easy to use, being pretty much a point-and-shoot. It’s also waterproof, so it can be used both indoors and out without a housing, which is great. Battery life can last up to four months with the camera set to a 10-minute interval, and can be extended with a separately available solar panel; the mini+ can also be plugged into a wall socket or charged via USB-C.
The mini+ is priced reasonably at €799, which at the time of writing converts to $923 / £701 / AU$1411. That’s for the camera only, but there is a kit that includes a case, a microSD card, a spirit level, a mounting arm, a lock and other accessories. This kit costs almost double the amount of the camera only, and feels expensive. You’ll need to fork out an extra €459 (around $538 / £400 / AU$815) if you require Enlaps’ solar panel too, which is another separate purchase.
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Enlaps Tikee mini+ specs
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Type: |
1/2.3in Sony sensor |
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Lens angle of view: |
120 degrees |
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Aperture: |
f/2.8 |
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Interval times: |
5 sec–24 hours |
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Connectivity: |
LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth |
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Camera dimensions: |
125 x 125 x 70mm / 5 x 5 x 2.75in |
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Camera weight: |
7.9oz / 224g (without battery) |
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Housing weight: |
1kg / 4.4lbs |
Enlaps Tikee mini+: Design
- Compact size
- Simple design
- No built-in solar panel
The Tikee mini+ features a simple design with just a couple of buttons on the rear alongside a microSD card slot, a USB-C port, a micro SIM slot and a power connector. The power connector design makes it waterproof when the camera is either plugged into the mains or a solar panel, although the plug itself isn’t waterproof. Unlike the Tikee 4, there’s no built-in solar panel, but you can purchase a solar panel separately to extend capture times.
Size-wise, the mini+ is roughly about the size of two soda cans side by side, at 5 x 5 x 2.75in / 125 x 125 x 70mm, with a weight of 4.4lbs / 1kg. The weight is negligible because it’s not a camera that would ever be used handheld, and it’s not too heavy for a wide range of supports in any case. The built-in 25,600mAh battery accounts for much of the weight.
Other exterior features on the white plastic body include a metal hoop to attach an anti-theft cable, rubber strips on the bottom so it can be positioned on flat surfaces and a standard 1/4in screw thread for attaching it to tripods and other supports, including mounting arms. For long-term projects, a mounting arm and an anti-theft cable will be useful accessories for compositional continuity and of course for security.
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The build quality is excellent, and the camera feels solid with an attractive yet simple design overall. It’s also rated at IP66 weather resistance, so it can stand up to everything the weather can throw at it, with operating temperatures between -10 and 50 degrees Celsius.
With such a simple design, the mini+ is controlled via the Tikee Remote phone app or the myTikee website. For the latter, the camera will either need to be connected to a WiFi network or have a SIM card installed. Being connected to a network is how you get the most out of the camera because you can access your captures remotely and create new capture sequences.
If you aren’t connected to a network, the camera can still be controlled with the Tikee Remote app over Bluetooth. One quirk of this, however, is that once a sequence has been initiated, the connection between the phone and camera drops after a short time. It’s no major issue, but you have to reconnect to check progress or to manually stop the sequence.
The camera lens is on the front of the white body, and there’s no screen on the camera to compose shots. Instead, there is a live preview available when connected to WiFi and LTE networks with the Tikee Remote app, but not when you’re shooting over Bluetooth, which is a shame because it would be extremely useful. The feature assumes you’ll be connected to a network.
Enlaps Tikee mini+: Performance
- Unbelievably easy to use
- Several field of view options
- Designed for low light
When you consider the pitfalls of setting up timelapse capture with mirrorless cameras – not least getting exposure settings correct and the flickering you inevitably capture – you’ll be forgiven for thinking that a dedicated timelapse camera is complex. The reality is that the Enlaps system is one of the easiest I’ve ever used. Camera control is easy, and timelapse assembly/ creation on the My Tikee website is pretty much automated.
The camera features a 12MP Sony 1/2.3in sensor with 1.55μm pixels and an f/2.8 aperture. The full resolution of the camera is 4032x3024px. The lens provides a 149-degree diagonal field of view with Fisheye 120 degrees, Dewarp 90 degrees and Dewarp 110 degrees shooting modes.
Of these three options, only Dewarp 90 degrees captures images that don’t suffer from barrel distortion. Timelapse intervals are available from 5 seconds to 24 hours in Long-term mode, and from 5 seconds to 45 seconds in Event and Burst modes.
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Image quality is excellent overall and superior to many competitor cameras, although backlit scenes can be problematic since there’s no exposure compensation available. You can, of course, make adjustments to footage in this area using video editing software. Plus, you can capture the photos that make up timelapses in Raw and/or JPEG, so with the former, you have greater scope for editing.
When shooting in low light and at night, the mini+ switches into Low Light Mode, which is optimized for low light and is claimed to produce brighter and less noisy images. Exposures are capped at two seconds in this mode. Image quality in this mode is better in lower light conditions, such as indoors with artificial lighting, than it is at night. Although night scenes with more artificial light are much better than darker, less well-lit scenes.
Enlaps Tikee mini+ timelapse video
One point to make here is that you can only upload JPEGs to the myTikee website to output timelapse videos, so if you capture Raw files they will have to be converted first. myTikee is incredibly easy to use, and without a subscription, I was able to output a basic video with a watermark. To take advantage of more features, you can pay $45 per month plus VAT for the basic subscription, $96 plus VAT for the more useful option, or there’s a bespoke on-demand option with no pricing publicly available.
There are also storage and AI Dashboard subscriptions available at $49 and $99 (excl VAT), respectively. AI Dashboard is for timelapse analysis of a range of elements within scenes, such as vehicles and PPE, etc. Basically, when you buy the camera, you’re buying into a subscription-based system, so you have to be aware of this before you invest. However, this is a professional timelapse solution, so cost may not be an issue for many people who require a camera of this type.
The videos I captured were in a 4:3 ratio (1920×1440) rather than 16:9. I could have zoomed into the video to crop to a 16:9 ratio and export at 1080p in video editing software, if I were able to download a full-resolution timelapse without a subscription. As it was, this was the highest resolution available for download.
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How I tested the Enlaps Tikee mini+
- Tested using a Bluetooth connection
- Used to capture shorter timelapses
- Tested in a busy city
I tested the Tikee mini+ in shorter bursts rather than for long-form timelapse capture, as testing it to the extremes of its potential for longer-term capture could take months.
I used my smartphone for Bluetooth connection rather than installing a SIM card for remote access to the camera. I tested the mini+ in a busy city to capture as much movement in the scene as possible, and in low-light situations.
With nearly 30 years of photographic experience and 17 years working as a photography journalist, I’ve used many of the cameras and lenses that have been released in that time. As a working photographer, I aim to test cameras and lenses from a photographer’s point of view.
- First reviewed December 2025
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