Recently got a NV monocular, nothing fancy just a cheap (compared to analogue) digital one. And I must say that exploring the hills at night with no torch is so exciting. I don't know how to really describe it..... somewhere between exploring places with childish wonder and doing something you know you shouldn't, but getting away with it.Anyone else into the night vision game?P.S. the photos don't look great but looking through it live somehow has more detail than the photo.
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>>2784432I walk around at night without NV or artificial light. Seeing in the dark is a learned skill.
>>2784443Fair, I can see in the dark fairly well also, light pollution is crazy in Germany so you don't need to put in any effort. However using NV does get you more details and more importantly more range.
>>2784443It's not.Most females are night blind.
>>2784448>Most females are night blind.Not a foid, but I can attest to that. Both my mom and my sister are blind as a bat at night.Anyhow yeah, seeing at night is about how many J - shaped cells you have in your retina, it has everything to do with biology and nothing with skill. Obviously you can enhance that ability n-fold by using technology.
Very comfy at night. Plus no awkward passing of other people :)
>>2784460wrong pic
>>2784454Perception involves skill. Some of it is conscious, like using averted vision to see things. Some of it is unconscious, like noticing more things as you get comfortable being in the dark.
>>2784461Really cool non. I spot an image intensifier tube but it doesn't look like a PVS 14. Is this gen 3+?Looks really nice, especially in the distance. But yeah hiking at night is peak /out/, no fucking people a lot of animals and real seclusion. I can not even imagine how good the image is with your setup, because it looks already great in the photo.
I need to get a crye nightcap or a light bump. I got a pretty good PVS14 in 2020 and never night hike with it.
Hey, so can someone recommend cheap (max 200$) gud night goggles? Something you can use to just walk around in the woods at night
I was in the army and I was never impressed with night vision technology all that much unless we were running with those infrared flashlight lasers. A good large diameter optic gives better performance in average low light conditions.
>>2784668Idk. What I have is a PARD07 V2 and it is relatively functional, but not great. If you are American get yourself something like an NVG 10 (from good nite gear), those are supposedly very good for the piece.If you aren't American then.... Just buy whatever you find good reviews on. PARD has some good units but most of them have magnification and they are like 270+.
>>2784432Oh hell yeah luv outdoors and nods.
>>2784812Do you really think that shot is special? Do you not own a 50mm binocular? Bro just go look at the stars with your spotting binos. You will see far more. When I was in the army I was issued a single aswhater-14. And it gave me views like that under starlight. And literally any 50mm optic gave better results. Now if you are in true darkness and you have an infrared flashlight integrated into your aim laser. Yeah an army night vision goggle at that point makes you like Batman. The hajis can't see you but you can see them. But other than that you might as well be hunting pigs (because that's what most of you are actually doing with a nod) with a 50mm sniper scope dialed all the way back.
>>2784828That’s a lot of words, too bad I ain’t reading them.
Any recommendations for a monocular?
>>2784853PVS-14
>it's a /n/ + /k/ + /out/ crossover episode
I got some old fpv gear laying around with some 10 year old skyzone goggles and bunch of cameras and receivers, I'm thinking about converting them in multi channel IR surveillance system with portable self powered IR cameras you can deploy anywhere and switch to wirelessly with up to 2 km range. Also goggles come with built in front camera too that has no IR filter. Just thinking about the possibilities makes me feel like a glow nig because those camera can also be rigged to trigger things wirelessly using a different band.
>>2785015don't forget /an/
I got a FLIR whcih is pretty fun. Eyes of god, no wharm blooded creature can hide from it. Sadly I live next to a national park that's mostly full of cold blooded threats. snakes and spiders and such. oh well
>>2785017Oh hell yeah
>>2784432It's 1 AM, there are no rangers around, does anon pay the 3 dollar self service fee>>2784853A PVS-14 with omni or elbit tubes is usually the best bang for your buck option unless you take the Biocular pill and get a PVS-7.
>>2785027forgot the picture
>>2785028>>2785027No fuck that shit you have nods an actual superpower.
>>2784812Nice anon. I love looking at the stars even with my shitty old night vision scope.>>2784828Why are you so damaged?>>2784832I wish getting pics through mine wasn't such a pain.
>>2784828Cope
>>2785046>I wish getting pics through mine wasn't such a pain.Same but I don’t want to pay $400 for that nod camera
>>2784828jaded no nods lead poison brained boomer
NODs under the WV canopy is spooky as fuck
>>2785340I wish I had a land and a home in WV.
>>2785341Same
>>2785422>>2785340Comfy
>>2784443True enough, but with the right equipment one can see more. Using an F1.6 near-infrared security camera I enjoyed a view of the Leonid meteor shower as I couldn't have with the naked eye under any conditions, never mind the advantage of playback. Orion looks pretty ridiculous using it too, especially when looking at footage on forward fast enough to register the Earth's rotation easily to the sense of motion.
>>2784853Pvs-14 is your cheapest, acceptable option. There are some offerings from ATN, Bushnell, and other companies on ebay selling repackaged Russian tubes that can be cheap but in my experience they're awful. If you're a crafty type you can snag a cheaper, used tube and housing and get a full NV unit for ~1k>>2785017>>2785026Hell yeah brothers
>>2785027>does anon pay the 3 dollar self service feeWhiteness test.
>>2785929>kiwi slices and deformed broccolishieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
>>2785046>>2785131it really is such a hassle to get good photos through nods. its pretty awkward but taking photos while the nods are helmet mounted with your phone jammed inbetween your face and the tube works far better for me than trying to take photos holding them in your hands. pic rel is taken doing that with an iphone 8
I want to buy nods but the amount of things I'd have to know to make sure I'm buying the right one turns me off. Also I'm a leaf which makes it worse, keep it coming anon
Are there any thermal optics that i can spot wildlife in forests? For example i sit at an altitude and observe the forest from nearby mountain. Can those thermal optics track the heat in such conditions??
>>2787295https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxwfpQhXgJQ
>>2787295Literally any of them. A thermal drone is stupidly good though.
>>2787324But can it see trough branches of pines trees or it need to be clear to catch their heat? I am not interested in photography, just to spot them.
>>2787652Thermal is blocked by physical objects, yes. We don't have xray vision. You will see spots of heat through leaves etc.
>>2785522good NODs will make all the difference in varying sky conditions for stargazinghighly recommend, altho I only saw it in arma bahaha, but one day
>>2787298What a creeper goober looking out for those girl's sweat stains. Just tell OP to get a Sionyx and move on, people.
>>2787760>Digital night vision> Anon asks for thermal
>>2787201You just need a PVS 14 bruh. There's all sorts of stuff to get, but the most important is the NVGs themself. It's just expensive, not difficult.https://coldharboursupply.com/en-us/products/ready-to-ship-ch-pvs-14-pro-night-vision-monocular-carson-us-milspec
Love it, trail jogging with a PVS-14 is a fun exercise in proprioception, plus it's cool seeing all the night critters. Feel free to ask me about it
>>2787842Same night
>>2787842>>2787844these are simultaneously pretty and also shitty photoskeep up the good-ish work anon
No tube vs moon vs x300v
>>2787949The vampire is ever so slightly worse. That's funny.
>>2787781thanks anon, is this the one to get without ending up doing double thinking about my purchase as I learn more about it?
What's the cheapest usable night vision device?
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>>2788096What's the usage?
>>2788096buying anything less than a gen 3 pvs14 is a really stupid move
>>2788205Curiosity and non-professional navigation, spotting animals and people at a distance. Give me a general idea of what performance one should expect per price bracket. I've seen digital ones for a few hundreds, what kind of lag should be expected from medium-range devices?
>>2787983Yes, PVS-14 is the minimum to have what we've all come to associate with the term "night vision". It costs a lot. But if you regret your purchase later, resale value is incredible. Everyone wants this shit.
>>2788682>is the minimum to haveLMAO
>>2788684Yes? He's correct.
>>2788794No, he's not. Not everyone needs a 3k USD device, I for once would be satisfied with a good quality gen 2 or even 1. Now be sure to write an angry reply and try to argue with me going in circles for hours as it is customary.
>>2788849That's alright, it's okay to be wrong sometimes.
>>2788995I've already forgiven you both for writing crap online, no worries bubba.
