1. An animal carcass grading system for predicting quality and meat yield comprising: an image capturing camera assembly further comprising, a substantially wedged-shaped housing having a flat bottom side, said bottom having a viewing window; a camera contained in said housing where the field of view of said camera is canted downward to at least subtend the viewing window, said camera having a camera image output and a camera flash; a trigger communicably linked to the camera flash and camera and said trigger operable to trigger the camera to capture an image and further operable to trigger the camera flash; and where said camera image output is operable to output the image captured for input to an image analysis computing system.