Going Thermal

[Title_II]

Hey

What happened?

I think he should pass on the scope to somebody that will use it and post video!!!

Complains about waiting a damn year and now he's going to wait a damn year on his own...

[sandgroperbill]

I was recently very VERY tempted to purchase an atn x-sight. Not thermal but looks the goods. I'm still quite tempted, but probably couldn't justify it with the amount i'm able to get out and shoot atm

[Title_II]

I have an ATN Gen II scope from the 1990s with a fat 25mm tube (39% more resolution for same line pair resolution rating). It looks like it was made in Spotsylvania but it works great My top goggle is late US contract thin-film Gen III.

[Deco]

Spotsylvania

[Title_II]

It's got spots all over the phosphor screen but it works great for a 1990s scope

[Rakk]

Does the noise hurt the definition of your target at all or is that always clearly defined regardless?

[Title_II]

Does the noise hurt the definition of your target at all or is that always clearly defined regardless?

Not sure if asking me. The Signal to Noise ratio of my scope seems good. Image is clear.at fairly dark light levels. If you mean the spots, they are manufacturing artifacts. Just black spots on the screen. Most NV has some noticeable spot(s), usually very few and quite small. There are mil specs for size, number, and location of acceptable spots. The tube of my scope just happens to be riddled with them. Probably shouldn't have left the factory. If I bought it new I would have been pissed, but I paid like $600 for it and it works great.

[brett1868]

Hey

What happened?

I think he should pass on the scope to somebody that will use it and post video!!!

Complains about waiting a damn year and now he's going to wait a damn year on his own...

Last trip bush I made a heap of video but nothing with actual targets in it therefore very boring and not worth the time to edit it. I'm heading bush again Thursday for a quick overnighter to attend the funeral of my cousins wife who passed away last week. Whilst it'll be poor taste to go out shooting, I will take the thermal and go for a walk up the back paddock and see how many Roo's I can spot. I also recently upgraded to Windows 10 and the program I used for editing no longer works so I'll have to get that sorted as well.

Hopefully this coming weekend will see something cool posted on YouTube

[brett1868]

I was recently very VERY tempted to purchase an atn x-sight. Not thermal but looks the goods. I'm still quite tempted, but probably couldn't justify it with the amount i'm able to get out and shoot atm

DON'T !!! I had one and sent it back for a refund. Very flawed product and useless support, buy the Pulsar Digisight if you want digital night vision as they are a far better quality product. Yes, ATN are cheap but if they don't work then they're not so cheap and it's better to pay a bit more for something that works.

[sandgroperbill]

Cheers for the heads up, Brett, you may have just saved me a wad of cash

[Title_II]

Don't get digital IMO.

Bret, prayers sent for your family.

[sarki]

I also recently upgraded to Windows 10 and the program I used for editing no longer works so I'll have to get that sorted as well.

I've had the reminder to download the free upgrade for a while now, put it off so far because of this.

A significant number of programs not caught up yet from what I read online.