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Night Owl 3.1x Discovery Night Vision Monocular w/I/R Illuminator
 
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Night Owl 3.1x Discovery Night Vision Monocular w/I/R Illuminator

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3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)


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Product Features

  • Hand-cradle for easy, comfortable, and secure one-handed use
  • Condensed lens for brighter images
  • Powerful built-in infrared illuminator and a tripod mount
  • Ergonomic and attractive new compact design
  • This item is prohibited from export outside the US

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Night Owl Discovery night vision-scope has an ergonomic and attractive new compact design. Its hand-cradle gives you easy, comfortable yet secure one-handed operational use. This monocular is extremely versatile and incorporates a powerful built-in infrared illuminator and a tripod mount into a lightweight and compact body. Night Owl used their standard five-element glass for both the oculars and the objective lenses, giving you a condensed lens and brighter images. This monocular also features soft-touch control buttons, power and IR indicators. It requires two AA batteries to operate.

Product Description

The Night Owl Optics(r) Discovery(tm) 3X night vision monocular is compact and lightweight with a 3.0x magnification. It features a handle-crandle for easier one -and operation with an ergonomic and attractive new compact design and styling.

Product Details

  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 7 x 5 inches ; 2 pounds
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
  • Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
  • ASIN: B00005AQ9E
  • Batteries: 2 AA batteries required.
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,649 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Disregard the bad review., October 24, 2006
This review is from: Night Owl 3.1x Discovery Night Vision Monocular w/I/R Illuminator (Electronics)
I bought this from Amazon and am thoroughly impressed. The field of view is fine, and you can see a ton of detail within a reasonable range. I turned out the lights in my room, looked out the window with it at my pool (20 feet away) and saw ripples in the water. I aimed it up at the sky, and saw a line of incoming airline traffic that I couldn't see otherwise. I took it down to the basement -- pitch black -- used the infrared illuminator and could read the text off boxes. Taking it outside, I could see clearly the houses across the street, cars, dogs outside -- just a ton of stuff. Remove the gear from my eye and I can see little to nothing. The thing's a beaut.

My only concerns are about how long it will last and hold up. Light damages this type of technology if handled improperly, and I'm hoping that generally careful use and no abuse will keep this thing purring for a long time. The power source is convenient too --- two double AA's are all you need.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not useful, November 10, 2006
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This review is from: Night Owl 3.1x Discovery Night Vision Monocular w/I/R Illuminator (Electronics)
I bought this item over a year ago, and it has never served for anything. Once I spotted a deer and turned on the "IR" illuminator, and the deer ran away - not too surprising, it is actually a red light and totally visible for most animals. Better use a flashlight. This is a first-generation nightscope, and has a very small range of utility: If there is a little light, the adapted human eye sees better, and if there is almost no light the device does not see either. 100 bucks is not too much of a waste, but if you are serious about nightvision you should spend about 10 times as much.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not useful due to very small field of vision, October 12, 2006
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The field of vision is too small for any useful viewing. If you already know where your object is in the dark, then you can point this device towards the object and view it in dark. But if you are searching for an object in the dark, the small field of vision makes the search useless.

Also, there is too much "noise" in the image, thus making it very difficult to recognize the object that you are viewing.

The IR makes the field of vision even smaller.

Overall I did not find this device useful even for ordinary pleasure viewing.

By the way, if you own a camcorder with night-view, you already know how how the objects look in the dark. You can use your camcorder's night view feature instead of buying this expensive device
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