Thermal Binoculars.....
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The Helios are pretty awesome, but they are not true binos, but bi-occular monocular. It just means you get to eye pieces for looking at the same image of the same single lens view.
Right, one core each behind separate lenses so that each eye gets a slightly different view as happens with your natural vision.
FLIR Recon BN10 is an actual binocular. It runs about $18K.
FLIR Recon BN10 is an actual binocular. It runs about $18K.
Is that all?
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post from back in 2014
Tried using two flir units side by side like binos, work great for easy viewing. The views are 3d, the battery icon appears to be floating on the screen. Trees are 3d you can see branches sticking out towards you and the curves of the limbs. Nice, I was going to sell one of my units but will make a bracket for bino use.
Very comfortable to scan the area without eye fatigue, just like day binos. However I did not see any advantage as to detection ability. If you could see something with both you could see it with either, left or right unit.
Using an armasight zeus 5 75mm rabbits in grass 400+ yds away no problem, these were not visible to either of the flir units as binos or independent, I have hundreds of hours behind them and the critters at the longer distances in the grass were not detectable. Any mode or any tilting of the units to cause the auto gain to compensate for more earth or more sky.
For longer range, bigger lens hands down. Rabbits at 400 yds I could tell if they were cotton tails or jack rabbits from profile, very impressed with the armasight unit.
Small fov due to 5x 75mm lens, but same as day optic's I have been using for 30+ yrs, now I have thermal binos.
The PS32 and the ps24 images match up perfectly no difference, nada, zero, zip. Edges of screen match up, icons match up, flir logo match up, and image information matches up. Just no zoom on the ps24, so if small critter is detected the ps32 will be used for the zoom for better view. I don't have dual recorders to make a 3d video. May be down the line I will get another DVR and mess with 3d thermal.
I added a bayonet mount to quickly change between pvs14 and the binos.
Weight of binos around 25 oz, IR patrol is around 24 zo so not much difference except image quality ;)
A good counter weight is needed.
Tried using two flir units side by side like binos, work great for easy viewing. The views are 3d, the battery icon appears to be floating on the screen. Trees are 3d you can see branches sticking out towards you and the curves of the limbs. Nice, I was going to sell one of my units but will make a bracket for bino use.
Very comfortable to scan the area without eye fatigue, just like day binos. However I did not see any advantage as to detection ability. If you could see something with both you could see it with either, left or right unit.
Using an armasight zeus 5 75mm rabbits in grass 400+ yds away no problem, these were not visible to either of the flir units as binos or independent, I have hundreds of hours behind them and the critters at the longer distances in the grass were not detectable. Any mode or any tilting of the units to cause the auto gain to compensate for more earth or more sky.
For longer range, bigger lens hands down. Rabbits at 400 yds I could tell if they were cotton tails or jack rabbits from profile, very impressed with the armasight unit.
Small fov due to 5x 75mm lens, but same as day optic's I have been using for 30+ yrs, now I have thermal binos.
The PS32 and the ps24 images match up perfectly no difference, nada, zero, zip. Edges of screen match up, icons match up, flir logo match up, and image information matches up. Just no zoom on the ps24, so if small critter is detected the ps32 will be used for the zoom for better view. I don't have dual recorders to make a 3d video. May be down the line I will get another DVR and mess with 3d thermal.
I added a bayonet mount to quickly change between pvs14 and the binos.
Weight of binos around 25 oz, IR patrol is around 24 zo so not much difference except image quality ;)
A good counter weight is needed.
That looks pretty cool. Couldn't you make a 3d video by making a Y-cord to connect the two video out plugs into one video in for the recorder, thereby superimposing the images on to each other?