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    Night Vision Thermal vs NV?

    All of the above and more. The Fourier transforms are a staple for data sampling, the "more" is in the type of analysis that is applied. Lookup tables are a staple for keeping up processing speed when managing palettes and certain filters, the "more" is in how they are used to manage...
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    Night Vision Thermal vs NV?

    Welcome, FTS. Glad to help. "Really horrid conditions" is a relative condition. Poor thermal imaging conditions differ between outdoors and indoors. In the outdoors, where airborn moisture (humidity) tends to be higher, wind can degrade the imaging by leveling the contrast. In the...
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    Night Vision Thermal vs NV?

    Without giving away too much, it is a variable lens system - meaning I've designed it so that I can replace the objective lens and tune the mechanical and electro optics as needed! ;-) IR-V
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    Night Vision Thermal vs NV?

    Thanks! :) IR-V
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    Night Vision Thermal vs NV?

    Skypup, "Prison Tats" made from a common "jail cell" (ad-hoc) ink show up extremely well when viewed with thermal imagers! :) IR-V
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    Night Vision Thermal vs NV?

    Thanks for the good words, Mr. Happyface! IR-V
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    Night Vision Thermal vs NV?

    Thanks for appreciating, TestnDoc! ;-) IR-V
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    Night Vision Thermal vs NV?

    How we look to mosquitoes Mr_Happyface, I've built a slew of custom short-range and long-range, thermal weapons scopes on DRS cores. I'm heavy into the back-end processing, and therefore prefer to collect as much "raw data" as possible on the front-end. As a result, I use 42mm...
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    Night Vision Thermal vs NV?

    Vic, it's a single beam test of a tri-beam PICO projection system that I adapted with IR capability. Later that evening, I took the assembly out to the mountains where I projected a video from an iPhone onto the side of a mountain 2 km away -- all visible only to viewers with i^2 night vision...
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    Night Vision Thermal vs NV?

    I^2 Imaging vs. Thermal Imaging FailureToStart, The following image comparisons should help you with insights to answers for some of your questions. The two images, one via i^2 (night vision) and another via thermal imaging, were taken 24 hours apart in similar conditions (as annotated)...
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    Night Vision Izlid?

    Thanks for the excellent recap on the corporate geneologies, Vic. The "rectangle" beams were definitely considered "radical" when they first emerged. Interestingly, the IZLID 200P lens collimation produces a hybrid beam with rectangle proportions but convexed on the vertical sides, and the...
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    Night Vision Izlid?

    Glad to help with information. I hope my last post didn't come across as a lecture. Who knows what the story is on that particular IZLID. The seller had tried unsuccessfully to unload it via some lower visibility web sites before posting it for sale on eBay. For IR illumination with...
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    Night Vision Izlid?

    A couple years ago, there was a USMC Ssgt selling a brand-new, IZLID 1000P Ultra on eBay. When investigated by the DHS ICE, he used the defense that it had been written off as a combat loss. That didn't fly. The device showed up in the mfg. records as shipping to the military, and was...
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    Night Vision Izlid?

    To gauge illuminator performance, divergence and intensity of the output needs to be understood: The IZLID 200P has a variable lens angle that adjusts beam divergence from 0.17 milliradian (pencil beam for aiming) to 105.00 milliradian (flood for illumination). This means that at the widest...
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    Night Vision New Feature of the DBAL-I2 many may not know about

    Vic, Always great to "tag team" with you! IR-V
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    Night Vision New Feature of the DBAL-I2 many may not know about

    Mikeltee, You're welcome. I appreciate your kind words. The high-output Newcon laser devices themselves are not illegal. Newcon is not a U.S. manufacturer and therefore not governed by the FDA regs, which don't control the device or the user, but instead, put controls and the burden of...
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    Night Vision New Feature of the DBAL-I2 many may not know about

    There is no mystery. The FDA is the regulating entity in the U.S., and their concern is with eye safety. However, the way the regulations are written, the burden of control and compliance is with the manufacturer of the portable laser devices. Electro-optics manufacturers are prohibited from...
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    Night Vision PEQ-15 light saber battle

    Glad the information is useful / interesting, pinsandpitons ... and thanks for the pun. The humor is good for everyone. IR-V
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    Night Vision PEQ-15 light saber battle

    Hey there Delta 4-3. Thanks for sharing your observations from your experience. Green lasers emit enough radiation in the lower electromagnetic spectrum between visible and near infrared for night vision to detect -- even the ones that are double pumped to reduce in half the starting output in...
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    Night Vision PEQ-15 light saber battle

    I have to admit, I've been ROTFLMAO to that video for a couple of years now. It has got to be one of my favorite laser-theme videos of all time. Thanks for reposting it. Folks need to know however, that they are not using PEQ-15s. Though the sequences are filmed through a night vision...
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