Comment on Do the sub-$150 night vision binoculars actually work?
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 week agoI know nothing about those, but at that price point you should not expect anything worthwhile.
You can get decent IR only monocular for $300-500, they won’t hold a candle to a $3k NV monocular. You can get decent thermal only monocular for $300-500, it won’t be anywhere near as good as a $3k one. You can’t get a decent fusion monocular for $300-500, those cost $5k.
Nightvision and thermal optics are by once and cry once or get what you pay for.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I regret that I didn’t end up checking out a pair when I was working a contract for L3Harris. They had rooms set up throughout the Tempe location where they tested them on site. The clean rooms for creating them were all in site too. But those things were expensive from what I saw. Tried to look what their price range was online now and they are near 50k. tnvc.com/shop/l3harris-gpnvg-ruggedized-bridge/?s…
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, that is the top tier Gucci set. You can get a PVS series setup that is more than adequate for whatever reasonable lawful purpose for far less.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Honestly I don’t know what Id ever use them for. A guy set up a corn field/deer hunting spot on a spot behind my partners property with motion cameras and such. He had a drone that either he rigged up or bought with an IR camera on it. Dude would fly over the area and check how many deer and where they were before going hunting I guess. It’s not even “fair.”. You can spot the deer easily and they have no idea you were ever there. I remember seeing several photos/videos where he was tracking them. At a certain point you have to feel like it’s just overkill. Although if he was using as much of the meat as he could I guess it’s still better than what we do to cows and such
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They are such a convenience in edge cases that 99% people don’t need them, but they can end up being one of those things where you find a lot of nails to hammer.