Finding The Best Night Vision Binoculars For Your Needs
Are you planning to buy night vision binoculars? There are many options from very sophisticated binoculars for surveillance or night navigation to simple binoculars for kids to have fun with. How do you know what features would be right for your purpose? Here are some tips on how to select the right night binoculars for you.
Use of night vision binoculars
There are many ways you can use a night binoculars. Here are the most popular ways people use binoculars with night vision.
- Exploring caves
- Scouting game
- Security and surveillance
- Camping
- Wildlife observation
- Night hunting
- Nighttime navigation
- Night fishing and boating
Many night vision binoculars work similar to digital cameras, they have a built in flash. The size varies a lot - smaller binoculars are more expensive, but they might be just as powerful as the big ones. When choosing a night binocular first decide what you are going to use it for. If it just for the kids to play, then go with a less expensive model that they will not break easily. If you are going to use the binoculars yourself go for a higher quality optics which naturally would cost more.
How night binoculars work?
Optics in night vision binoculars amplifies the existing light. They use not only light visible to our eyes, but also infrared spectrum. Quality night binoculars have an infrared illuminator which increases the available infrared light.
All things you see through a night binocular appear green, because you don’t look directly at the objects but at their image on a phosphor screen.
Depending on light conditions at night binoculars perform differently. You will not see anything if there is no single star in the sky and no street lights. The lower the light situation is, the more powerful night binocular you will need. You can get Gen 1, Gen 2 and Gen 3 night binoculars. Gen stands for generation. Gen 1 are all right during a night with full moon and bright stars. For a crescent moon Gen 2 works better, and for a dark cloudy night you will need Gen 3 binoculars. Generation 1 night binoculars are affordable, Gen 2 and Gen 3 binoculars are much more expensive.
Kids enjoy night vision binoculars
If you are going on a long trip, a night vision binoculars will be excellent entertainment for kids. They will stare in the windows for hours and discover many thing that otherwise would be missed.
When it comes to binoculars you always get what you paid for. Brand name binoculars like Yukon, Night Owl, Weaver or N-Vision Optics cost more, but they come with more features. Also be aware, that night binoculars cost much more than ordinary binoculars.
Night vision range
The range of you binocular depends on three things - its gain, resolution and magnification. If you have powerful lenses, the magnification is good, but the amount of captured light decreases significantly. Usually only magnification below 5X works well for night binoculars. So unlike ordinary day light binoculars the range for night ones is not that extended.
Night vision monocular - another option
Night vision binoculars are very comfortable to use because we are accustomed to seeing with both eyes, but they are pricey. If you want powerful night vision optics for a cheaper price, consider night vision monocular. The result you get is pretty much the same, but they cost significantly less.
Another way to save is to look for binoculars online. Sometimes you can buy them on the Internet cheaper than in the stores.
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Tanya Turner is an owner of Zoom Binoculars Guide. We provide reviews of best binoculars including night vision binoculars, bird watching binoculars, fishing and hunting binoculars.
| By Tanya Turner Published: 12/20/2006 |
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May 19th, 2009 at 8:47 am
[...] The most basic type of binoculars use Galilean optics- the concept around which the discovery of the telescope revolved. The concept is based on the usage of a concave lens for the eyepiece and a convex lens for the objective. This principle offers produces an erect image (which is not the case with some other magnification techniques). This concept of binocular architecture is still prevalent and is used to create cheaper varieties of binoculars. Binoculars made on the Galilean principles are cheaper because they offer a narrower scope of vision and also less magnification as compared to some of the modern prism-based binoculars. [...]