Bushnell Stealthview 5×42 Digital Night Vision
I’ve been interested in Digital Night Vision ever since I got my first Sony camcorder with Night Shot several years and 4 camcorders ago. The technology still isnt as good as Gen 3 filmless. But I think that its going to surpass tube based Night Vision in both quality and features at some point in the not too distant future.
There have been other digital night viewers which cost about the same as a decent gen 1, but they werent any better than a Night Shot Camcorder and werent that good without a LOT of IR.
Then Xenonic came out with their Digital NV for about $1300. That one is pretty good, but still not as good as a gen 3…
Which brings me to this –
http://www.bushnell.com/general/nightvision_monoculars_26-0542.cfm
Digital Night Vision for only $300. Has TV Out too (which the current Xenonics lacks). I’m hoping that this one is somewhere between the Meade NightView and the Xenomics….
I couldnt help myself and ordered one, Wish they had actual views through the device up on the yukon/bushnell site, would think it would be easy given its Video output……
Will do a review with hopefully some good video once it arrives. In the meantime I went trolling around the internet for as much as I could find. Airgunbbs.com has a lot more info on these than anywhere else… Google unfortunatly just seems to come back with places that sell them all with the same info..
Yukon appears to have a version of this called the Yukon Ranger 5×42. Same specs and a similar design, looks to be the same unit in a different case. Apparantly the only difference is that the Yukon costs more, comes with AC/DC adapter and has adjustable IR level, the Bushnell is fixed, I also read that the Bishnell seems better quality… Might buy both to find out.
Here are some sample images I found on the Yukon site… Looks better than I expected so far.
Here’s Video from a guy on the AirgunBBs. Quality looks good…. Certainly good enough for what I want, which is this –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeJTRxA80xw
and one for hellratter
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=1288698448223466724
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well mate i,m still not to sure off the digital stuff as i had a shot off the bushnell one u show in the pic abnd i wasn,t too imprested not to sure if this is because i use a d440 gen2 scope and it,s a cracking scope or it,s because it,s rubbish but could be worth trying out again.. 😀