I took a look the other night with a friends new DNT Zulus HD5-20 digital that he just mounted on rifle and did a Eye/hands-on . I been always big analog NV shooter, Therm. scan kind of hunter , So I really walking into the new Digital scope giving opinion with a fresh eye.
This is the low-end-$ Digital model with LRF and ballistics . this is just a 1st impression opinion . I would need a to be taking this thing out over several hunts to really give a detailed opinion .
On a BIG Plus+.. I got to say that Sony Digital Processor is pretty damn Sharp image. I think a guy have little problems with clean shots even out to 300 yrd. . Man Digital scopes have come a long way the past 20 years . Also the Sony Dig. held pretty good with less Pixel distortion as I thought it would, when you move up into the higher magnification ranges . LRF worked good and the Aiming Reticles were usable to.
Only real small Negatives I found was just in the positioning and size design of the controls . Also when R-hand shooter with hand on the the grip and TG . Then with L-hand reaching across over/threw the IR Illum. to the control's. . I did not like that.
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( NOT Using ) the on-board Zulus IR Illum. .. but with using a couple of different high-end-$ Peq 'laser' 850nm IR illum. units, rifle pic.rail mounted.
The ZulusHD Sony Processor Image, when you are using a high-end Laser 850nm Illum. unit. Was a little weird with the Image. The image gave a big cluster of circular patterns in the Image view .. But , If you swapped, and used a cheeper Low-$ IR Diode Flashlight Illum, like the Sniperhog 850nm unit . It was Crystal Clean.
I really don't know why? . I not a Tech. but ' just guessing ? ' it is just some kind of Frequency thing between the Laser nm , and the IR diode array Frequencies, and the way they are being processed on the Sony.
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The Onboard IR that is on the Digital Zulus works well and it is clean going out least 300 hundred yards . but It always better to have more IR than you really need in the field . And I pretty familiar with and use a lot of different quality IR supplements out hunting.
I just throwing this out there, for people to take under advisement when shopping for aftermarket higher power IR supplement with their Zulus Digital.
( maybe ? ) and I just guessing . What work pristine under Analog NV, might be different when you process the same IR with digital , Like Sony Dig. possessor in Zulus.
I got a few extra free minutes here so. to elaborate just a little more on what I was talking about with my post above , with the Zulus digital and ,, ( using a different IR Supplements ) , Not the onboard factory IR.
We grabbed a peq15 and LAM N6TR . The Image when using supplemental IR on Zulus was giving a weird circular cluster pattern in image . But when take same IR and looking threw a pvs14 image is crystal clear and No circular pattern cluster.
If using a good quality 850nmIR diode array flashlight, The Zulus Dig. image was crystal clean also. also nothing subpar power-wise with some of these aftermarket flashlight IR supplements, Their not compact and secret squirrel operator trim, but most of them will flatass blowaway the high dollar-$$ highpower IR/laser modular's. like peq15's ..etc.. for pumping out IR collimated beam down field.
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I put a Zulus Pic. below of what it looks like when you look at the IR projected from a , LAM 830nm ( lightspeed M6TR IR/laser )
I don't know why the circular image contamination is there, and not with the NV . only guess I got is with how certain Digital Processes specific nm frequencies different than analog NV .
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