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ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

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  1. Peter Audrain

    Night vision equipment for mortals

    Yes, it's amazing how well adapted they are. (Incidentally, I wonder why human camouflage looks nothing at all like birds'—we've reinvented the wheel repeatedly with this, it seems.) It's also amazing how much evolutionary convergence there has been between them and Northern Harriers—the females...
  2. Peter Audrain

    Night vision equipment for mortals

    How fun is that! Something to think about this summer, for sure. I've found a meadow with multiple Short-eared Owls hunting around, starting a little before sunset—they're partly diurnal—and sometimes expressing their unhappiness with the Northern Harriers still flying around from the day...
  3. Peter Audrain

    Night vision equipment for mortals

    Yes—that may be what the sample images posted by the company suggest, too. The images nonetheless look all right, at least in theory, for locating birds you wouldn't otherwise see, like owls. If anyone else owns and has used devices in this family, perhaps we'll learn the extent to which theory...
  4. Peter Audrain

    Night vision equipment for mortals

    Me too. (And having just clicked around the web on this topic, I might also wonder if anyone has used or formed well-informed opinions about the FLIR Scout TK. It seems to be the cheapest option, at $500, in the overall category of the Pulsar Helion—or at least to have been the cheapest option...
  5. Peter Audrain

    Night vision equipment for mortals

    I'm considering getting a pair of 56mm binoculars, to be my 'night vision' equipment for owling. I read about thermal imaging, and it seems as if it is very much still awaiting its cost-to-quality revolution. And I found the world of regular night vision equipment very confusing, as well as...
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