night vision toy

How much better is it than your FLIR?

The FLIR works at thermal wavelengths, around 10 microns. This thing is visual and a bit more on both ends. This one doesn't see heat.

Some night pics. It's in the city, not pitch dark, but the dark stuff was visually black.

That shed is maybe 40 yards away. The illuminator was at its minimum setting.

I didn't see any critters last night.

Impressive photos, John. So much so that I ordered the toy.

By the way, how close can it be focused?

Thanks.

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From a YouTube review it looks like a fancier version of this:

I got one at a yard sale for US$5.00 to take apart. It takes *five* AA ce lls and has poorer focus than your unit but equal range. It's basically a c heapie digital camera wired to a small LCD screen with a big clunky movable plastic lens to focus its image into the "eyepiece".

It doesn't take snaps, record, or have a USB output, but I get to watch t he deer bed down in the Back Forty when they migrate through town.

It's the same as those DIY "night vision hacks" we've all seen using the sensor from a webcam and an eyepiece from a videocamera with a cheesy faux- military housing.

I can't decide whether to "upgrade" it to record etc. or sell it on EBay.

Mark L. Fergerson

The box says 1m. In real life, about 8".

We use a B&W CCD camera (no IR filter!) and monitor to see ~800 nm laser light. Adding some IR led's as a light source I think I could do the same thing.

(I took some pics but there is not much light from the monitor... It didn't turn out to well.)

George H.

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We tried the gadget at 850, 1310, and 1550 nm. All were fiber-coupled lasers at around 1 or 2 mW, no fiber, just spilling out of the connector into free space.

1310 is dim but quite visible, images blue.

So we can use this to verify laser wavelengths. The 850s are slightly visible to the eye too, so that is the tiebreaker.