From the perspective of easy to use for pensioners wildlife spotting at night when coming back from country pubs in a car on very quiet, mainly single track roads. Currently using car headlights (picks out eyes quite well but v limited on narrow lanes), can get a 12v plug in hunting light but it’s very intrusive, saw some ads for night vision stuff at lots of money (5k for some scopes), and then looked a bit more, got confused by choice, then saw these.
it’s not much of a punt at £55 on Amazon so would it help?
I think my neighbour has a pair similar to the ones you link. I think they kinda work, but they are not binos, they are a single lens and a screen and are limited.
The 5k stuff is expensive because it's late generation, better sensitivity, higher definition, etc, etc...
Buy it, try it, return it if not?
Quite why it needs to be binoculars to drive a single screen, I can't immediately fathom.
for birding only the expensive ones are really up to snuff, monocular usually more popular too
Buy it, try it, return it if not?
Quite why it needs to be binoculars to drive a single screen, I can't immediately fathom.
One lens is for the screen, the other is the IR projector.
I think my neighbour has a pair similar to the ones you link. I think they kinda work, but they are not binos, they are a single lens
Keep one hand free whilst watching the neighbours through the night vision monocular
Keep one hand free whilst watching the neighbours through the night vision monocular
Username etc...
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I've been looking into this because I tend to see more wildlife at dusk rather than during the day when the dog walkers are about.
Decent conventional bins are better than the eye until it's close to darkness but you lose colours as it gets darker. It's also more difficult to focus them.
"No focus" bins are often available, especially 7x50 marine, but they won't focus close in.
My 8x42 are ok, but considering 7x50 as these will be better, but not sure by how much.
Nothing passive will work in the dark unless they're thermal imaging, but you won't see detail.
You need either thermal or infrared source for darkness, but I can't imagine that you'll get much for £55.
Decent waterproof conventional bins are around £200 minimum
I don't know how much of a problem humidity is for the electronics, this might be another cost-saving area to consider
Star-gazing is much cheaper than wildlife-gazing😉
Decent conventional bins are better than the eye until it's close to darkness but you lose colours as it gets darker. It's also more difficult to focus them.
"No focus" bins are often available, especially 7x50 marine, but they won't focus close in.
My 8x42 are ok, but considering 7x50 as these will be better, but not sure by how much.
10x50 are the best for low light, they have the largest exit pupil, so best light ‘gathering’ capability.
However, they won’t be compact.
Swings, roundabouts…
10x50 are the best for low light, they have the largest exit pupil, so best light ‘gathering’ capability.
However, they won’t be compact.
Swings, roundabouts…
10x50 are excellent all-rounders, but they aren't the best for low light. Exit pupil is 5mm.
My 8x42 = 5.3mm
7x50 and 8x56 = ~7mm, which coincides with the maximum pupil diameter of the average human eye, which is all of the detail that we can use
7x50 is more compact than 10x50 (just) and optimises exit pupil size
Exit pupil = The effective diameter of the objective lens ÷ Magnification https://imaging.nikon.com/sport-optics/guide/binoculars/basic/basic_05/