The simultaneous view of night vision and thermal was fantastic as was the use of the IR illuminator. This is one of the most educational, informative and unbiased reviews of a hunting topic I have seen to-date! Thumbs up and I'm subscribed.
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This video is very informative. I was especially surprised how the pane of glass prevented the thermal from penetrating through. Something I would have wagered would not be obstructive to any heat signature. Great job!
@@24nikita wow...you must be really dumb if you need to be told which is which...it is dead easy to work out without even knowing ANYTHING about the cameras....THINK !
pardon the pun but this really helps 'clear' up the difference between thermal and night vision! I had no idea that a simple pane of glass could do so much to compromise the thermal, nor did I know that camouflage was almost as effective at night as it is during the day. Great comparison, Thank You Sir!
Thomas Schoon @1:29 #LoneStarBoars explains thermal will not see thorough glass I have made it possible to see thorough glass with a SCOUT BTS SERIES optional 2× optical extender or the longer range model equipped with a 65 mm lens and mounting the SCOUT BTS SERIES on my telescope for higher magnification it's all about the coatings the manufacturer put on the original thermal can or scope. If these coatings are modified you can see right through glass down to 1 to 2 The Newton scale is a temperature scale . If require any help I would be pleased to help and share my telescope with you
This has to be the most informative educational down to earth video I have seen on UA-cam. Please make another one with the latest available equipment that is somewhat reasonable. I tip my hat to you Sir.
Looking into night vision/thermal for the first time buyer is not an easy task. I have to give a big THANKS for this video, it really helped my understanding of the differences. Unfortunately, it looks like I will be buying two units as I like the various differences of the two .......oh well, I can always start by getting two cheaper models and work my way up to better down the road......Cheers!!!!!
That was a really helpful video. I've always been interested in these technologies, and this really helps in understanding some basic differences between the two as well as the limitations of both. Thanks.
As I was getting out in 2005 , the new Fusion systems night vision/ thermal was coming on. One side took night vision tech and the other thermal and as you looked through the eyepiece you saw them overlapping. You could select off either technology or leave them on which was really helpful. Think very expensive. I was told our simple , but very sensitive night vision units, were $16,000 per set. No one was giving me an estimate of the Fusion System cost. An individual from Germany was showing me a system which had the vision output displayed on the helmet visor, think motorcycle helmet visor, and had 5 cameras on top of the helmet. There were no goggles. You just looked through what looked like a normal visor, but when you activated the system , you saw the overlay on your otherwise clear visor.
Thank you. Exactly what I’ve experienced using both. I found thermal effective a long range where night vision became less effective with poor ambient light
Extremely well presented ! Both of these formats require a significant investment, and I was surprised to see how much better the thermal cam performed. Much better than I had expected. Your information was helpful, and accurately described. It is helpful in my descision to make my purchase. Thank you, Ray
I’m looking into a valentines gift for my husband and it’s so funny you brought out glass. My husband thought it would be hilarious to have me look through his first thermal camera from inside the house looking out through the glass door. I nearly pissed myself seeing a human body through the door being it was about 2 am in the morning. Reflection is irritating with thermal so I’m looking into IR for a new toy for my husband. Thanks for the information!
Really good information Makes me wonder haw well a Mylar survival blanket liner under the ghillie suit would fare against thermal. On a cold or rainy night it would sure help keep you less uncomfortable.
Thank you very much for the video. I know that it was a lot of extra work to create it; walking back an forth numerous times. The thermal is obviously best for hunting since there are no window panes in the wild. If you were laying in wait out there and someone just walked in with an IR scope, they might never see you until you moved. Again, thanks for all the extra work you do to present both aspects of night hunting.
I really liked your video. I have many hours behind PVS14, ATN ThORs, as well as various other night and thermal vision systems however I have never seen a side by side.
I have zero experience with either technology - or interest in hunting hogs or whatever. Having said that I came away from your video (which I landed on accidently) very informed. I thought you did an excellent job with your demonstration of the two technologies - even to a city girl like me. It was clear and to the point with minimal to no extraneous talking, actions, or technical confusion. Direct and to the point. I wish more product reviews and comparisons were presented the way you handled this one.
I have both.. Wife and the kids all have thin filmed 3rd gen. Oldest girl likes the Eotech in front of a 14 with a TP Logic on a 45* for short range thermal. Personally I like a huge IR illuminator and a squeaker all animals will look toward the noise and it doesn't seem to alarm them. So, if anything is hiding you'll see them because their eyes will light up like an IR flare. Other than that its Night vision goggle with a thermal on the rifle seems to be the ticket. The common thing I hear is that the IR light isnt passive and can be seen by others.......When the hogs and yotes start shooting back with night vision then we'll talk
I get into them north of Dallas to southern OK and they haven't been reacting to IR at all. I'm using cheap ones off eBay, must be the wavelength. They don't seem to care or have acted like they dont notice.
Excellent video!! Did not know there was such a thing as 3rd gen night vision. Also amazed to see how thermal was defeated by glass. Excellent demonstration!!
Thanks for that! I'm new to night vision technology and just starting to learn. There's a lot of info on this video that answers some questions I had and clued me into a lot of new information, for me. Thanks again!
this was very helpful and informative. thanks for taking the time to make this vid. and as others have said, the split screen is huge in helping see and understand the differences in strength and weakness of each option. cheers and happy hunting.
It has nothing to do with refraction. Glass absorbs thermal radiation, it doesn't refract it. A space blanket can reflect thermal, which still isn't refraction. Go back to grade school, you missed a lot.
I was for you til you said it absorbs thermal radiation. Glass does a good job of reflecting thermal radiation. If it adsorbed it well we wouldn't make cookware from it. P.S. just some extra trivia, Because glass reflects thermal radiation, thermal optics have to use expensive germanium lens, as germanium lets thermal radiation pass through it.
It's all wavelengths. Everything is on a wavelength from Microwaves, to radio, to colors.. eventually we will be able to convert these waves to see them.
PS I have an old 'Nite Max digital' type with astd. lenses. It works but not nearly as well as what I see here, esp that thermal…but the damn thing illuminates your face and ruins your night vision as you look up from it to the dark. I hate the IR illuminator…might as well yell out to the world, here I am. Hows the thermal on your night vision w/ unaided eye after looking into the thermal screen?
Pretty much any of those will ruin your scotopic vision since you're basically looking at an illuminated screen. The only solution is to have a dimming option for it, but even then it wouldn't be perfect. Another way would be to use one eye to look through the scope and keep the other one adjusted to the night, pretty annoying though, and bye bye depth perception.
One extremely important thing to point out about Nightvision in my opinion is if you use it together with an IR illuminator the eyes of the animals will actually reflect the light making it in many cases even easier to spot game compared to thermal vision. Sweep a field with a Nightvision + Illuminator and there will be tons of eyes everywhere. With Thermals particulary if you are not using a super top end device you can miss animals or you find yourself sneaking up on hot rocks and stuff like that.
@@LoneStarBoars With Thermals you often have mixed results ive found. Animals dont always show up clearly depending on conditions and quality of the device. And if you found a piece in a hunting situation its really hard to say what age and gender it is and spotting signs for a mother that has kids to take care of like the milk bar (for lack of a better word). Like i said the eyes really pop when using Nightvision + IR illuminator and for actually analysing what you are looking at Nightvision delivers way better detail in my opinion.
Thermal crushes night vision for detection and identification. If it’s not something is wrong with your thermal. We use night vision for walking and driving at this point. This is what I do for a living.
Awesome Video! Thank you for taking the time to make it. You would have disappeared under a Mylar blanket! ;) Just one more advantage of night vision. Thermal has its perks though!
Excellent side by side demo. nothing compares to side by side comparison. if you did one at a time... it likely wouldn't be so obvious. Well Done, Thanks
So, the gray scale system is better suited to a rural/outdoor environment & the green scale system is a better choice for an urban environment; because night vision that doesn't allow you to see through glass in a city full of buildings and cars is pretty useless. Would you agree? Is there a single system that has the best of both worlds & none of the shortcomings? Excellent video BTW, thanks for posting.
i've heard about some companies developing something called fusion vision. it's digital night vision that also detects body heat in the blue-red scale.
@@owen5640 they have thermal overlays for legacy, intensifier tube based night vision, which is currently better than digital. Good luck getting them though, they seem to be restricted to LE/MIL sales.
My opinion is a UV spectral imaging method could provide more detail or using sonic waves to get a “sonogram”, use Red Shift and overlay it with one or the other with a vertical movement yellow, the other green, if digitally detected.
Is it possible to have a night vision monocular and a thermal binocular on a helmet together to have "say" left eye night vison and right eye thermal? that would be awesome. and use an IR laser
i was wondering the same (i think lots of people have) actually the human brain should blend or melt the pictures (what the different eyes see) into one (like old 3d goggles...one red other blue..wearing them long enough you don't notice the difference anymore) has anyone tried it out (i mean night and thermal vision inside same goggles)??? was searching in internet but unfortunately couldn't find it :( hopefully someone can:)
You could just have both of them blended digitally by some software and get a nice crisp blended image that you can tune instead of torturing your eyes like that. There's so much a little bit of software processing could do for these existing technologies. You could get the thermal image and the edges and textures from the NV overlayed, like FLIR's msx thing (except they use normal camera instead of nv) Or you can have the thermal image overlayed with transparency over the NV image, or you could just have the NV image and just little boxes overlayed over the hotspots/coldspots and much more.
Very good , really helps visualize the day to day use of each. For spotting the thermal wins hands down. But for moving around the night vidion is better as the thermal doesnt pick up the twigs branches etc due to similar thermal levels.
Great information. I'd get a thermal scope or clip on and an Night vision monocular or something like that just for identifying or like you said seeing through glass.
This answered a couple of questions for me. I can only afford to buy 1 type of tech, and I was leaning towards thermal. This pretty much confirmed my thoughts that thermal was probably the best bang for the buck for my situation.
Thermal is good for seeing changes in temperature, but for increasing the brightness, NVG would preserve the details. Not the best when looking for living things, but great for looking at EVERYTHING when it is low-light.
Patrick EH ain’t gonna see shit when using thermal inside the car, helicopter or plane. If you use it inside the cab ofcourse. Outside is no problem. With night vision, this is no problem
Laser Guy, you put the thermal sensor outside and keep the screen inside. This is common on yachts. Flir is one company that makes such a system. The sensor can be mounted onto a device that can be rotated as well as height adjustment via user control. The MFD or multi-function display in the helm can display the image. Although Radar works well for some applications, its hard to tell what type of object caused the echo. Thermal imaging gives a detailed look at a object. From my experience, the three typical aids to night navigation are GPS, Radar, and Thermal camera. When combined with the naked eye and other technology such as AIS, nigh-time navigation is becoming safer..
wow, talk about an awesome video. definately love the thermal. nobody walks around snooping with a pane of glass, so the thermal is the best great video, thanks a million
The simultaneous view of night vision and thermal was fantastic as was the use of the IR illuminator. This is one of the most educational, informative and unbiased reviews of a hunting topic I have seen to-date! Thumbs up and I'm subscribed.
I FULLY AGREE
So you are saying I need both. I will let my wife know asap, wish me luck.
Just keep in mind, that your wife doesn't need night/thermal vision to hit you with the pan
Mine has asked me why I keep an old window in my truck. Might need to hide from thermal.
you'll need more than luck good sir. lol
Good luck
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The simultaneous screen helps a lot to understand the difference and most important how you see the same screen shot.Very Nice Video
love
Paul Quiroz fantastic video... one of the best I've seen of late. Now if only thermal or nv prices would come down so every day hunters could buy some
Yeah, correct....ABSOLUTELY.
FoSho! That was one of the best reviews of anything I have seen
Well done, walked away completely understanding what was what. Thanks much poster
This video is very informative. I was especially surprised how the pane of glass prevented the thermal from penetrating through. Something I would have wagered would not be obstructive to any heat signature. Great job!
Excellent Job! I especially like how you ran both cameras at the same time recording and then put them side by side. Well Done.
OK but he didn`t tell us which one was which. Is the green one thermal or is itm he black and white one. Shit man. CRAP
@@24nikita
Green is NV, B&W is thermal with black being hot.
@@24nikita wow...you must be really dumb if you need to be told which is which...it is dead easy to work out without even knowing ANYTHING about the cameras....THINK !
I've known about the differences strengths and weaknesses but I've never seen a side by side comparison. Great video Thanks for sharing.
pardon the pun but this really helps 'clear' up the difference between thermal and night vision! I had no idea that a simple pane of glass could do so much to compromise the thermal, nor did I know that camouflage was almost as effective at night as it is during the day. Great comparison, Thank You Sir!
Not really Thomas. He used "thermal" in the night vision demo when he lit up the thermo spotlight.
Thomas Schoon @1:29 #LoneStarBoars explains thermal will not see thorough glass I have made it possible to see thorough glass with a SCOUT BTS SERIES optional 2× optical extender or the longer range model equipped with a 65 mm lens and mounting the SCOUT BTS SERIES on my telescope for higher magnification it's all about the coatings the manufacturer put on the original thermal can or scope. If these coatings are modified you can see right through glass down to 1 to 2 The Newton scale is a temperature scale . If require any help I would be pleased to help and share my telescope with you
What is a "Nuton"?
sorry spelling error on mobile phone fingers to big :) The Newton scale is a temperature scale
Yes, yes. When he was master of the mint he developed that scale. Why use it now? Kelvin is the proper unit for this type of work.
Really well done thank you for putting this together.
Cool info to have. I was surprised how well the thermal worked.
well it's 3rd gen, 3rd gen thermals are crisp af.
This has to be the most informative educational down to earth video I have seen on UA-cam. Please make another one with the latest available equipment that is somewhat reasonable.
I tip my hat to you Sir.
Great job! Thanks for taking the time to make this and put it up!
This video has aged REALLY well - still insanely useful to see the differences really really really clearly. THANK YOU.
Looking into night vision/thermal for the first time buyer is not an easy task. I have to give a big THANKS for this video, it really helped my understanding of the differences. Unfortunately, it looks like I will be buying two units as I like the various differences of the two .......oh well, I can always start by getting two cheaper models and work my way up to better down the road......Cheers!!!!!
An extremely great video, and either one would be great purchase. The main thing is know your property and its surroundings.
3:25 for anyone that wants to get to the point.
@Angelo Alires Thank's for the reminder !
Thank you for aging me my time
the racket started in the background I don't think I made it that far went straight to the comments lol
That was a really helpful video. I've always been interested in these technologies, and this really helps in understanding some basic differences between the two as well as the limitations of both. Thanks.
As I was getting out in 2005 , the new Fusion systems night vision/ thermal was coming on. One side took night vision tech and the other thermal and as you looked through the eyepiece you saw them overlapping. You could select off either technology or leave them on which was really helpful. Think very expensive. I was told our simple , but very sensitive night vision units, were $16,000 per set. No one was giving me an estimate of the Fusion System cost.
An individual from Germany was showing me a system which had the vision output displayed on the helmet visor, think motorcycle helmet visor, and had 5 cameras on top of the helmet. There were no goggles. You just looked through what looked like a normal visor, but when you activated the system , you saw the overlay on your otherwise clear visor.
Great demonstration on showing the pros and cons. Like the way you showed us the side by side comparison. Great video!
Thank you. Exactly what I’ve experienced using both. I found thermal effective a long range where night vision became less effective with poor ambient light
Extremely well presented !
Both of these formats require a significant investment, and I was surprised to see how much better the thermal cam performed.
Much better than I had expected.
Your information was helpful, and accurately described.
It is helpful in my descision to make my purchase.
Thank you,
Ray
This is a dang good idea. I'm glad someone finally tried to find out what will happen under certain conditions. Thank you for this info.
I’m looking into a valentines gift for my husband and it’s so funny you brought out glass. My husband thought it would be hilarious to have me look through his first thermal camera from inside the house looking out through the glass door. I nearly pissed myself seeing a human body through the door being it was about 2 am in the morning. Reflection is irritating with thermal so I’m looking into IR for a new toy for my husband. Thanks for the information!
another downside to ir is if you need to use an ir illuminator an someone else is using ir your giving yourself away..
Ir camera or thermal camera? The right side is thermal camera you dont need illuminator thermal camera detect objectheat
@@Oktober20051 on the Night Vision
Really good information Makes me wonder haw well a Mylar survival blanket liner under the ghillie suit would fare against thermal. On a cold or rainy night it would sure help keep you less uncomfortable.
Thank you very much for the video. I know that it was a lot of extra work to create it; walking back an forth numerous times. The thermal is obviously best for hunting since there are no window panes in the wild. If you were laying in wait out there and someone just walked in with an IR scope, they might never see you until you moved. Again, thanks for all the extra work you do to present both aspects of night hunting.
I really liked your video. I have many hours behind PVS14, ATN ThORs, as well as various other night and thermal vision systems however I have never seen a side by side.
Excellent tutor on comparing night vision vs thermal. Simple, to the point, well done.
Lol.
The ir illuminator made the frogs go crazy.
I WILL remember that
Frogmen love IR.
The best demo of night vision I have seen. Very helpful. Worth subscribing. Thank you.
Man, that was crazy how the frogs went nuts after turning the iron. Illuminator on!
I have zero experience with either technology - or interest in hunting hogs or whatever. Having said that I came away from your video (which I landed on accidently) very informed. I thought you did an excellent job with your demonstration of the two technologies - even to a city girl like me. It was clear and to the point with minimal to no extraneous talking, actions, or technical confusion. Direct and to the point. I wish more product reviews and comparisons were presented the way you handled this one.
I have both.. Wife and the kids all have thin filmed 3rd gen. Oldest girl likes the Eotech in front of a 14 with a TP Logic on a 45* for short range thermal. Personally I like a huge IR illuminator and a squeaker all animals will look toward the noise and it doesn't seem to alarm them. So, if anything is hiding you'll see them because their eyes will light up like an IR flare. Other than that its Night vision goggle with a thermal on the rifle seems to be the ticket. The common thing I hear is that the IR light isnt passive and can be seen by others.......When the hogs and yotes start shooting back with night vision then we'll talk
+Bow hunter hogs will run off from ir illunators bit they do not shoot back yet.
I get into them north of Dallas to southern OK and they haven't been reacting to IR at all. I'm using cheap ones off eBay, must be the wavelength. They don't seem to care or have acted like they dont notice.
Now I'm just imagining hogs with night vision goggles
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Excellent video!! Did not know there was such a thing as 3rd gen night vision. Also amazed to see how thermal was defeated by glass. Excellent demonstration!!
Thanks for that! I'm new to night vision technology and just starting to learn. There's a lot of info on this video that answers some questions I had and clued me into a lot of new information, for me. Thanks again!
this was very helpful and informative. thanks for taking the time to make this vid. and as others have said, the split screen is huge in helping see and understand the differences in strength and weakness of each option. cheers and happy hunting.
I'm amazed how a simple piece of glass defeats thermo
It has nothing to do with refraction. Glass absorbs thermal radiation, it doesn't refract it. A space blanket can reflect thermal, which still isn't refraction. Go back to grade school, you missed a lot.
+Lord Vader haha looks like you must have flunked grade school
I think in this case the glass is reflecting thermal energy, so it acts like a mirror.
I was for you til you said it absorbs thermal radiation. Glass does a good job of reflecting thermal radiation. If it adsorbed it well we wouldn't make cookware from it.
P.S. just some extra trivia,
Because glass reflects thermal radiation, thermal optics have to use expensive germanium lens, as germanium lets thermal radiation pass through it.
It's all wavelengths. Everything is on a wavelength from Microwaves, to radio, to colors.. eventually we will be able to convert these waves to see them.
Thanks for the excellent demonstration. I never knew that glass blocked thermal! Thanks again.
Incredibly interesting and well done video. Thank you for taking the time to make it.
Excellent video, congratulations, it is very difficult to find videos like this, you approached a very important point.
7:09 Jaws!
lol
that's one ornery frog
JJ Meows lmao it did sound like it
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Dun dund und dun
Very good and informative video. Excellent presentation. Best I have seen yet. Atb
That thermal gives me a chill…thanks for the heads up on the glass…that does have merit.
PS I have an old 'Nite Max digital' type with astd. lenses. It works but not nearly as well as what I see here, esp that thermal…but the damn thing illuminates your face and ruins your night vision as you look up from it to the dark. I hate the IR illuminator…might as well yell out to the world, here I am.
Hows the thermal on your night vision w/ unaided eye after looking into the thermal screen?
very true and in an operational stage where the enemy has night vision ir just gives away your position
There's the problem Dixie...I don't want to be a lighthouse and can't afford these gizmos...guess I'll just have to go Indian...
Pretty much any of those will ruin your scotopic vision since you're basically looking at an illuminated screen. The only solution is to have a dimming option for it, but even then it wouldn't be perfect. Another way would be to use one eye to look through the scope and keep the other one adjusted to the night, pretty annoying though, and bye bye depth perception.
I was worried I was the only one that thought IR illuminators where stupid. When the SF comes in all I need is gen 1 and I can shoot them all day.
I like the the contrast of the thermal vision it lets you to distinguish much better between the target and the surrounding.
best comparing video I have seen
Good job guys. Enjoyed how you get to the point and just give us what we need to know.
One extremely important thing to point out about Nightvision in my opinion is if you use it together with an IR illuminator the eyes of the animals will actually reflect the light making it in many cases even easier to spot game compared to thermal vision. Sweep a field with a Nightvision + Illuminator and there will be tons of eyes everywhere. With Thermals particulary if you are not using a super top end device you can miss animals or you find yourself sneaking up on hot rocks and stuff like that.
Night vision isn’t even close. Hot rocks don’t move.
@@LoneStarBoars With Thermals you often have mixed results ive found. Animals dont always show up clearly depending on conditions and quality of the device. And if you found a piece in a hunting situation its really hard to say what age and gender it is and spotting signs for a mother that has kids to take care of like the milk bar (for lack of a better word). Like i said the eyes really pop when using Nightvision + IR illuminator and for actually analysing what you are looking at Nightvision delivers way better detail in my opinion.
Thermal crushes night vision for detection and identification. If it’s not something is wrong with your thermal. We use night vision for walking and driving at this point. This is what I do for a living.
Excellent video! We're in the market for a thermal vision to protect my family when the SHTF. Thank you
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Side by side comparison is very educational. Differences in technology is evident. Well done!
Thanks for doing the ghillie suit
Very interesting. Learned some things on this video. Thanks for sharing. Stay well.
Very helpful. thanks for taking the time in making it.
Earned a sub! That was the video I was holding my breath for! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
That's the fastest 50 meter walk in recorded history.
I counted every other step as a yard and I would say a more realistic distance is ~30 yards and not 50 yards as he propounds.
Excellant learning video. Thank you much from Minnesota. 😊
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Impressive presentation excellent comparison
Straight forward no nonsense
Real world test.
Thank you very much for doing this.
Night vision will not see through glass if it has an IR light turned on. Just a heads up.
Awsome demo. This answered so many of my questions and helped me make up my mind on which device I want. Thanks
Awesome Video! Thank you for taking the time to make it. You would have disappeared under a Mylar blanket! ;) Just one more advantage of night vision. Thermal has its perks though!
Excellent side by side demo. nothing compares to side by side comparison. if you did one at a time... it likely wouldn't be so obvious. Well Done, Thanks
So, the gray scale system is better suited to a rural/outdoor environment & the green scale system is a better choice for an urban environment; because night vision that doesn't allow you to see through glass in a city full of buildings and cars is pretty useless. Would you agree? Is there a single system that has the best of both worlds & none of the shortcomings? Excellent video BTW, thanks for posting.
i've heard about some companies developing something called fusion vision. it's digital night vision that also detects body heat in the blue-red scale.
@@owen5640 they have thermal overlays for legacy, intensifier tube based night vision, which is currently better than digital. Good luck getting them though, they seem to be restricted to LE/MIL sales.
My opinion is a UV spectral imaging method could provide more detail or using sonic waves to get a “sonogram”, use Red Shift and overlay it with one or the other with a vertical movement yellow, the other green, if digitally detected.
Really cool video, I never would have guessed that glass would make that much of a difference with Thermal. Thanks for posting.
Very helpful video! looks like thermal is the best.
make sure your optic doesnt have any glass in it
+Ashton Powell thermals use germanium that is why they are expensive.
is there dangers from using germanium? is there thermals with out using germanium?
Well done sir!
The differences between the two technologies are clearly demonstrated.
Thank you.
The frogs are loving the ir illuminator
I reckon they are all chirping "Turn that damn light off!"
The best video on the subject I have seen. Well done. I wish you would follow it up with one on long range.
I need to make another technology has improved since this.
0:47 what kind of bug is that? if you slow down the video to 0.25 speed on that particular time you can see it
Wow man you have good eyes..
Gr8 comparison..that too ..both on the same screen..never knew that a glass pane cud compromise on your surveillance
Is it possible to have a night vision monocular and a thermal binocular on a helmet together to have "say" left eye night vison and right eye thermal? that would be awesome. and use an IR laser
i was wondering the same (i think lots of people have) actually the human brain should blend or melt the pictures (what the different eyes see) into one (like old 3d goggles...one red other blue..wearing them long enough you don't notice the difference anymore) has anyone tried it out (i mean night and thermal vision inside same goggles)??? was searching in internet but unfortunately couldn't find it :( hopefully someone can:)
You could just have both of them blended digitally by some software and get a nice crisp blended image that you can tune instead of torturing your eyes like that. There's so much a little bit of software processing could do for these existing technologies. You could get the thermal image and the edges and textures from the NV overlayed, like FLIR's msx thing (except they use normal camera instead of nv) Or you can have the thermal image overlayed with transparency over the NV image, or you could just have the NV image and just little boxes overlayed over the hotspots/coldspots and much more.
Basically yes. It is called 'fusion' technology. Or get a pvs14 and a AN/PAS-29A COTI
YES BOTH WOULD BE EXCELLENT, until you learn how to use them both, and which is better and when it is better.
Very good , really helps visualize the day to day use of each. For spotting the thermal wins hands down. But for moving around the night vidion is better as the thermal doesnt pick up the twigs branches etc due to similar thermal levels.
Man those frogs
Try sleeping at night when camping with them going off like that all around you .... they're like an alarm clock you cant turn off .
Good video. Makes it clearer the differences in night optics.
thanks the video was great, but it looked like the thermal was magnified more then the night vision.
+Brian T0obad night vision has no magnification I think that thermal unit was 2x
Lone Star Boars, I never thought about that.
Thanks for the education.
Great content and presentation. All one needs is camo and a yeti with vegetation to move with you. Nice. Thanks.
very nice comparison! earned a sub :)
+TheLiasas same here. some good stuff.
Great information. I'd get a thermal scope or clip on and an Night vision monocular or something like that just for identifying or like you said seeing through glass.
Thermal is definitely better
unless they bring glass, lol
@@CAOSWOLFIII lol
Thanks, nice comparison, well setup, simple and easy to understand the basic differences. I would query the 50m distance though, but thanks.
ZLID illumination outperforms them both for night vision
How does the zlid ILLUMINATOR look like?
very interesting, I had no idea that thermal could be blocked with glass. Thank you for the indepth look between NV and TV.
Thermal vision is best!!
A very well presented vid', and explanation , many thanks
thermal is batter than night vision
+tactical in most situations, but a combination of both is best.
tactical Spelling is batter.
The problem is the price. You can not compare a thermal visor!
Tba Free 336 units are now cheaper than I2 3rd gen.
Lone Star Boars what thermal vision you use???
Probably the best side-by-side comparison available for the public. Bravo Zulu Lone Star Boars!
Great video!
This answered a couple of questions for me. I can only afford to buy 1 type of tech, and I was leaning towards thermal. This pretty much confirmed my thoughts that thermal was probably the best bang for the buck for my situation.
Yeah I agree, thermal illuminates and highlights hot targets, the downside is the loss of depth cues in the environment.
thermal wins for me hands down!
Thanks very much for the video - very illuminating! I think I prefer thermal now.
Best
Paul
Thermal Rules. Night vision is only good for TV BS.
paulmax72 good luck driving car or a helicopter using thermal
Борис Снопов , I use IR to drive with. What is the problem?
Thermal is good for seeing changes in temperature, but for increasing the brightness, NVG would preserve the details. Not the best when looking for living things, but great for looking at EVERYTHING when it is low-light.
Patrick EH ain’t gonna see shit when using thermal inside the car, helicopter or plane. If you use it inside the cab ofcourse. Outside is no problem.
With night vision, this is no problem
Laser Guy, you put the thermal sensor outside and keep the screen inside. This is common on yachts. Flir is one company that makes such a system. The sensor can be mounted onto a device that can be rotated as well as height adjustment via user control. The MFD or multi-function display in the helm can display the image. Although Radar works well for some applications, its hard to tell what type of object caused the echo. Thermal imaging gives a detailed look at a object. From my experience, the three typical aids to night navigation are GPS, Radar, and Thermal camera. When combined with the naked eye and other technology such as AIS, nigh-time navigation is becoming safer..
Excellent comparison best I have seen so far.
Thank you great demonstration, I know what to get my husband for Christmas!!
-$4000
Great video. Simple. To the point. Very informative
Thank you immensely. I finally was able to explain the difference to my wife of what these looked like. Great to have them side by side.
wow, talk about an awesome video. definately love the thermal. nobody walks around snooping with a pane of glass, so the thermal is the best great video, thanks a million
Thank you very much for this video. It helped me understand the two better and know where I want to spend my money.
Awesome side by side comparison. It shows the differences extremely well
When you brought out the glass i was amazed. I would have never though that a piece of glass could render the thermal useless. unreal.
Great video! 👍 Very nice side by side comparison and gave us good useful information. Thanks.
This is the best comparison video that I have seen. Thanks!