Solomark Night Vision Monocular, Blue-Infrared Illuminator Allows Viewing in The Dark - Records Images and Video

Bought this to watch all the wildlife cruising around our backyard. They work great! The night vision is very clear, the range isn’t as great as advertised but still pretty decent.

I am a night hunter - mostly hunt hogs. However, lately with the drought in E. Texas we started having problems with coyotes getting to our sheep. In the period of a week or so we lost 4 lambs. So, I called in some friends and we set up watch schedules thru the nights. While each of us had NV scopes on our rifles it became obvious that we needed a quicker less taxing way to scan the pasture over swinging our rifles every few minutes. So I started looking at NV scanners - I wanted something that wasn't too expensive because I expected my spouse to get me a Thermal scanner for my birthday which is just a few months away. After looking at most on Amazon I narrowed my choice down to two units - the Solomark and the Nightfox units. Well, the Nightfox had the best rating but was out of stock so I chose the Solomark Night Vision Monocular. The Solomark didn't quite have as good a rating 4-star vs 5-star, but after using them I can't understand why anyone would find them not useful or junk as one rater indicated unless they just didn't understand how IR night vision units work. The Solormark unit works great on the darkest of nights as long as you turn on the IR light -7 different levels of intensity. Without the IR on it is pretty much useless on dark nights but it is NOT meant to be used that way. The only three drawbacks that I can find: #1. is the #3 default setting of the "white back-light" - it is too much and causes grainy vision at any distance. Set it to #1 and use the IR light at higher levels and you have good night vision out to 100+ yards. #2. working thru the menu can be a little confusing at first. #3. The IR level cannot be backed down without going all the way thru the 7 settings then back up. An example: you are viewing something out at 65 yards and think w/just a little more IR light you could see it better so you go up one more setting only to find that the setting is too much. Well, you cannot back down just one setting - you have to go completely thru all of the light settings to get back to where you started. All in all - it is a great little device, especially for the night hunter who does not want to use visible red let lights.

This is my first bit of NV kit, so wasn't really sure what to expect. The monocular arrived on time and well packaged. Unit itself is compact and very light which made me think it might not be very good - however any concerns were unfounded. It comes with a pre-installed 4GB micro-SD card, so just add 4 AA batteries and you're away. Unit comes with a black tough fabric case, a neck strap, couple of connecting cables, lens cleaning cloth and a good set of instructions. All controls are easy to use and importantly - simply laid out so you can work the thing in the dark. Only fiddly control is the eyepiece focus slider, but it works fine and once set (in daylight) you pretty much leave it, so no problem. Can be used in daylight with the lens filter on and IR illuminator off. Gives colour images - looks a bit low resolution, but this isn't really what this thing is for. Using it to look at the garden at night (lens filter off and IR illuminator on) it is much better! Image is grey-scale when using this mode of operation, but seems much better resolved and clear. The IR illuminator is very bright even on the lowest brightness setting - very clear view and easily focus send out to 60-70m at least - easy to pick out and identify small objects out to at least 40m. Photo and video functions work fine, but not yet tried to download to computer. Eyepiece brightness is very high out of the box - but I believe the back-light for the internal screen can be adjusted through the settings menu, so will look at optimising this next. Very impressed with this as a wildlife viewer with lots of other potential uses - not sure how robust this would be for field use or how it will fare longer term, but first impressions are that this is great for the cost (£105 presently). There's obviously much better kit available for more money, but hard to see how you could beat this at this price point. Recommended!

Mein Einstieg in die Nachtsichtgerätewelt sollte zunächst über ein bezahlbares Gerät der ersten Generation erfolgen. Nach gründlichen Recherchen fiel meine Wahl schlussendlich auf ein digitales Monokular, das ich eher zufällig bei Warehouse Deals für einen unwiderstehlichen Preis erwarb.Um es vorweg zu nehmen – ich bin angenehm überrascht. Dieses kleine und leichte Teil liefert erstaunlich gute Ergebnisse in dieser Klasse. Natürlich kann es sich mit neueren (und wesentlich teureren) Geräten nicht messen, ganz klar, aber für den ambitionierten Gelegenheitsbeobachter ist es durchaus geeignet und eine Option.In mehreren Nächten habe ich den kleinen Helfer auf Herz und Nieren getestet – hier die Ergebnisse:Positiv fiel mir auf:- Leuchtstarke Infrarot-Diode, die durchaus Sichtweiten bis 200m (und bei Restlicht auch mehr) zulässt. Häuser und Bäume können in dieser Entfernung noch klar ausgemacht werden, wenige Hindernisse und damit geringe Reflexionen im Sichtkanal bringen unverkennbar bessere Ergebnisse- Katzen, Füchse und andere nächtliche Wanderer sind bis 100m deutlich zu erkennen- das Nachtsichtgerät ist ein angenehmes Leichtgewicht- der Energieverbrauch (4 Mignon/ R6/ AA) ist sehr moderat. Ich verwende Akkus (Kostenersparnis!) mit 2300mAh und kann damit mehrere Stunden auf Beobachtungstour gehen.- der digitale Zoom ist eine nette Beigabe, das Bild pixelt ggf. hierbei aber schon spürbar aus- die siebenstufige Infrarotanpassung arbeitet im Zusammenspiel mit der Schärfeeinstellung sehr ordentlich, natürlich darf man bei der vorliegenden Auflösung des Bildschirms von 320x240 keine Wunder erwarten, die Aufnahmen erfolgen mit 640x480, also VGA. Insgesamt sind Details aber annehmbar zu erkennen, man sollte zu Beginn ein wenig experimentieren, um ein Gefühl zu bekommen.Nicht so überzeugend empfinde ich:- die Bedienbarkeit, zwar sind alle Tasten erreichbar, im Dunkeln wird das bei den flachen Anordnungen jedoch mitunter zum Suchspiel. Auch das Rädchen für die Scharfstellung könnte deutlich angepasster und weitaus gemächlicher auf Betätigungen reagieren; insgesamt aber antwortet das Gerät auf Eingaben recht passabel.Fazit: Ein anständiges Nachtsichtgerät für Einsteigen und Gelegenheitsspiogenten, das sich insgesamt ordentlich bedienen lässt und bei gefühlvoller Handhabung brauchbare Einblicke in die Dunkelheit gewährt. 135 Euronen sind in dieser Klasse derzeit normal, von einem echten Schnäppchen allerding kann man da nicht wirklich sprechen.Dennoch meine Empfehlung und ob des günstigen Warehouse-Preises auch fünf Sterne.

Sono molto soddisfatta dell'l acquisto e la qualità delle immagini è buona, l'unico neo le istruzioni solo in inglese e non sono riuscita a trovarle in italiano