Night Vision LWTS+Kahles Ki1-6+ KAC 300 BLK SBR
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for me the color is a huge selling point because with white hot black hot, if a prey or person is in front of something warm they get washed out where if you have color you could differentiate the temperature differences and that could be huge in a tactical situation. I had an M24 and was doing recon and this is exactly what happened to me there were 3 people in front of a building and I could not differentiate how many there were because of the white wash.
The color palletes are great once you learn how to use them?
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SkyPup or other knowledgeable users/developers,
Compared to the color palettes of the T70, how many steps are in the monochrome palettes of the LWTS?
Compared to the color palettes of the T70, how many steps are in the monochrome palettes of the LWTS?
Camera records in 14 bit and software converts to 8 bit for your eye to be able to see it, so 256 levels of color or gray,
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Camera records in 14 bit and software converts to 8 bit for your eye to be able to see it, so 256 levels of color or gray,
...but there are jarring step-offs on the color palette lookup table. A subtle difference in thermal emission straddling a lookup table limit can completely change the color hue. In medical imaging, those jarring borders can lead newbies astray, typically underestimating the extent of findings. For that reason, experienced readers usually prefer monochrome palettes because the 256 (or greater) levels of a single hue are not so jarring, subtleties are not lost on the reader. I suspect that this is not the same with hog hunting, where there are fewer subtleties—basically "pig" and "everything that is not pig." That said, maybe it is just a carryover from work, but I still prefer monochrome palettes in TI. Maybe that will change once I get some pig hunts under my belt.
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The human eye cannot completely distinguish each of the individual 256 gray gradients nor can it visualize all the all the colors of the rainbow either, there are many many visual abnormalities in neural processing of information from the retina and a long list of visual aberrations that trick the mind.
So don't get too hung up on it, like you said, it is either a pig or not a pig.
So don't get too hung up on it, like you said, it is either a pig or not a pig.
The eye can appreciate the contrast among those 256+ gradations. That is one reason why we spend more than the cost of a T70 on just one imaging monitor.
There is more than what meets the eye when it comes to gray gradients no matter how much money you spend, check out these Mach gradients:
Mach Bands
Mach Bands
Backyard at about 2.5x in clip-on mode. iPhone pic does the LWTS no justice.
How is the FOV through this setup w/ the 1-6 set at 1x? Is it restricted much w/ the clip-on sitting in front of it vs. w/o? Mine will hopefully be here soon and I plan on using it a lot w/ a 1-6x day optic.
It is slightly restricted at 1x. I like to run it at 1.5x to 4x or so. You will love the LWTS.
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