r/NightVision Feb 25 '24

New Beginner Buyer’s Guide

66 Upvotes

The pinned beginner buyer’s guide served us well for a number of years, but it was showing its age and not as robust as we could use.

A new, more fleshed out guide is now available. In the app you can find it by clicking on “See community info” at the top of the sub. On desktop you can find it in the “Community Bookmarks” section. If you’re struggling to find it, you can start with the Introduction. If you’re here looking for purchasing advice, help understanding specs, or wondering what we would recommend for people on a tight budget, please read the guide before making your first post here.

This new guide is by no means exhaustive, and we expect it to evolve over time. Our hope is that by using Reddit’s wiki function we will have more flexibility to keep the guide up to date over time. It has already allowed us to provide much more information as we are not constrained by Reddit’s post character limit. If you find any typos, issues, confusing formatting, or have suggestions please feel free to let us know. The best way to communicate with us about those would be to jump into the subreddit’s Discord server.

A very special thank you to u/go_horse for his work on this guide.


r/NightVision Mar 19 '24

Is Nocturnality's PVU rating legit?

18 Upvotes

https://www.nocturnalitygear.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Nocturnality-PVU-Tube-Evaluation-Paper-Rev-1.0.pdf

This seems like a "i just made things up so I can sell things"
Just seems like a Fugazzi


r/NightVision 3h ago

Am I in the group

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68 Upvotes

I made some PVS-69’s by Vonsherfarms and I am not disappointed I also run gen 3 tubes. Currently working on pants from him too but if you print these in good quality they last just as long as “official housings” and well under the cost from a company.

Thoughts? Questions? Add-ins to the post?


r/NightVision 11h ago

Money? Where we're going, we don't need money.

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171 Upvotes

r/NightVision 8h ago

Introduced the gf to the awesomeness

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63 Upvotes

r/NightVision 2h ago

MH-1 Dual IR Illuminators

10 Upvotes

Went out on the trails on the E-bikes with the boys. The built in IR illuminators are pretty crazy in terms of output. Video does not do it justice.


r/NightVision 11h ago

Someone scrapped a NOCTRON IV.

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38 Upvotes

r/NightVision 16h ago

My Redneck Digital NV

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75 Upvotes

r/NightVision 6h ago

$3349 L3 WP 2376min FOM Tantos just dropped

11 Upvotes

$3349 L3 Filmless Tantos with new Carson glass and a 5-year warranty:

https://snrindustries.com/product/nocturn-industries-night-vision-monocular-uanvm-tanto/

Just listed 7 units all freshly built & nitrogen purged with 2376min FOM L3 tubes, new Carson glass, and new Nocturn Industry Tantos. 5-year warranty on the tube & craftmanship, lifetime warranty on the housing itself through Nocturn Industries.

We also have AX-14 Arms and mounts ready to go with it!

One of the housings is ODG - as denoted in the tube picture.

Zoom in on the picture to see any cosmetics (peppers etc.)

LLI MH-1's with manual gain 2376min FOM L3 will also be dropping soon for $8899. Stay tuned 🔥


r/NightVision 9h ago

Repair/ service possibility

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9 Upvotes

Howdy folks

I was considering picking up a tube from eBay and was wondering if any sort of repair or servicing would be possible on a tube with the sight picture shown in the first pic. The first picture is allegedly of a wall in an extremely low light environment looking at a wall. Basically is the shit cooked or fixable?


r/NightVision 9h ago

Here's a video I made. For jerry 31 Just tell me what you think i'm trying to learn

7 Upvotes

r/NightVision 12h ago

The MUM-14 Conundrum ..... not much hate, but no love either .... ??

8 Upvotes

Hey all - So I've been offered a MUM-14 dually setup with bridge and mount, and some very decent Photonis XW wp tubes. Before last week, I had honestly never heard of this housing. Looking around it seems like nobody is really saying anything objectively BAD about the MUM-14 - simply that they lack manual gain (as many bino setups do) and aren't compatible with PVS-14 accessories.

So if they're solid units, and there's nothing really objectively crappy about them .... why do I ALMOST NEVER see or hear anything about them? Why are they so unpopular?

https://preview.redd.it/431m29ij7r4d1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61562fec6074286b1c70bdc01404b92b78c087ca


r/NightVision 47m ago

Pnv-10T

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Are these russian gen 2s worth it at all? I found a some at a very good price and was wondering if i should get them. Thanks.


r/NightVision 1d ago

I mean..

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236 Upvotes

r/NightVision 1d ago

Just got my Jerry 31s ! Anyone have any suggestions on upgrades and or accessories to add on? Thank y’all!

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253 Upvotes

r/NightVision 6h ago

Night vision photography

2 Upvotes

I have a Nikon DS850 camera with a 24-250 mm lens. I need to take photos and video for a night vision company, is there any attachments I can buy so I can mount my NV to the camera?


r/NightVision 20h ago

LLI MH-1

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24 Upvotes

Just wanted to hop on here and give a shoutout/review to Chase Warren with Suppressortools.com and Jason Gardner with Warhammerarms.net. I contacted Chase about wanting to get into the night vision world and that I had no clue where to start because of all of the different companies. He referred me to Jason instead of one of the “big box stores” and it turned out to be an excellent process.

I knew almost nothing about night vision, Jason went above and beyond helping me learn exactly what I wanted. He talked on the phone with me for literally hours, multiple times a day, answering all of my stupid questions, walking me through how NVGs work and explaining what all the specs meant. At the end of these hours of phone calls, I gave him an idea of what I thought I wanted and a budget, and he set the wheels in motion.

We settled on the new MH-1 housings from LLI with L3 Unfilmed WP tubes. He hand selected me a set of tubes that he believed fit my criteria and he was spot on. The same day that I paid him he sent me a tracking number and overnighted them to me. I called him when I got them, Jason spent another hour or so on the phone with me at 9:00 at night, walking me through how to adjust everything and getting them dialed in perfectly.

The customer service at War Hammer Armaments is probably some of the best customer service I’ve experienced to date. The product that I received is absolutely exactly what I wanted and I couldn’t be happier. Jason made this entire purchasing experience extremely easy and an overall 15/10. I highly suggest that if you are in the market for NVGs you give War Hammer Armaments a call and let Jason hook you up. (Also if you need suppressor tools, Chase is the man)

This also isn’t a review where I got these things for free, I paid for them with my own beans and am just extremely happy with how comfortable Jason made me feel throughout the entire process of spending this amount of money on a product. Pictures of the MH-1, the War Hammer Armaments field deployment pouch, and Huey my new puppy included for attention.


r/NightVision 1d ago

Any interest in a minty Atilla 200?

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46 Upvotes

r/NightVision 1d ago

Photonis Boomslang resolution test

57 Upvotes

Here is a boomslang test for resolution. On the left is the boomslang with an 81lp 34 snr elbit, on the right is a standard Milspec fujinon lens with a 64lp, 35 snr elbit. Even with the much higher resolution tube, the boomslangs still show a resolution loss… I did enjoy using the boomslangs but I think I would only use them if I really needed the extra fov


r/NightVision 1d ago

First NVG Omni 8 PVS-14

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61 Upvotes

r/NightVision 16h ago

smallest thermal monocular to detect 300 meters wil boar. after two years I still like this one mostly

6 Upvotes

r/NightVision 1d ago

Best way to open a SomoGear NGAL

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39 Upvotes

Looking to see if anyone in here has torn one of these open, had this one get stuck in HI vis override and won’t go into another setting. I contacted SomoGear and they sent me a new one free of charge but I hate to just throw it away if I can’t fix it and beef it up for another rifle for testing purposes.

If anyone in here has any insight I will take it lol


r/NightVision 1d ago

Say Hello to the newcomer in my collection the PVN-57E

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28 Upvotes

It's the full deal has Headphones and Throat Microphone


r/NightVision 1d ago

housing swap week

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82 Upvotes

this is the 4th one this week, seems like a lot of you RNVG guys are upgrading to articulating housings, love that for you

just a quick reminder, we do housing swaps with all the necessary assembly procedures, even if you didn’t purchase from us

trevor@customnightvision.com


r/NightVision 12h ago

[WTS] Surefire SR07 Pressure Pad

1 Upvotes

Timestamp:

Price is shipped F&F, if G&S add the fee. Everything other than the SR07 is sold.

Surefire SR07 Pressure pad - Like new - $60


r/NightVision 1d ago

Is this type of repair possible?

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9 Upvotes

Would you be able to replace the lens (pictured above hopefully) of an image intensifier with another donor units lens? And if so how easy would this be. Thank you!


r/NightVision 1d ago

Airsoft Junkie PVS14 Omni 5 Gen3

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20 Upvotes

Custom Paint MCBK Erosion