So, you didn't listen to our guide on How to Take Care of Night Vision, and now you've blemmed your device. Or someone at an airsoft event or force-on-force training shined a laser in your tube. Or whatever happened. Sh*t, we feel your pain.  We know you're bummed, because we've been there. Luckily, there's a way that you may be able to reverse some of the damage. It's not a guarantee, but it's the best thing you've got. Why Black Box Night Vision? Image courtesy of Optics Planet For photocathode oversaturation damage. This was caused by too much photon exposure in some wa ..read more

So you just spent thousands of dollars on your first night vision device, and you want to treat this thing like the holy grail. We get it. With something so expensive, all of us babied our first devices. And in some ways, we still do. There's no point in treating something intentionally poorly, right? We've learned some tips & tricks on how to take care of your night vision we'll break down for you. First though, a re-assurance. These devices are tough. They're built for military use. And yes, if you're dumb with them, negligent, or don't use common sense, you can break them. But they ..read more

Ah, yes. To Gucci, or not to Gucci, that is the question. If you're reading this blog, and you've found us, then you already know that L3 Harris's Unfilmed White Phosphor tubes are the cream of the night vision crop. The tip of the spear. But there's a lot of myth, conjecture, and downright misinformation surrounding them as well. Plus, they make up a small portion of the overall tubes on the market, so what's happening with all those other thin-filmed and thick-filmed tubes? Let's take a look at the facts between filmed and unfilmed night vision intensifier tubes. Not the marketing, not the h ..read more

     Alright, so it looks like you're finally going to buy yourself a super power and pick up some night vision! Maybe you even checked out our Night Vision Buying Guide and you're trying to make the call between a single tube or dual tube night vision. It's probably the toughest decision in the night vision process, because we all wanted to make sure we got the right device with how much money we were putting down.       So we're going to run through some of our experiences and feelings toward the single vs dual tube debate, and where the pros and ..read more

     So you've finally decided to make the jump into night vision, but you're not sure what night vision to buy with so many options on the market. It's a big world to jump into, and with so many different housings, intensifier tube manufacturers, and intensifier tube grades, it can be pretty overwhelming.      Enter, our Night Vision Buying Guide. We're writing this up as a general guideline for how to approach the market, this is by no means a definitive rule that's going to cover every scenario. Instead, we want our guide to give you the tools and know what que ..read more

     Ah, night vision specs. The topic of many hours of debate, much gnashing of teeth, and needless heartbreak. This is an area with probably more misinformation that anywhere else in the night vision industry, and it almost seems to be perpetuated the most by lurkers in night vision forums and boards who don't even own a unit themselves.       It's only natural that in a hobby where every device comes with an extremely detailed spec sheet, we constantly try to compare our units to someone else's. And of course, with the amount of money we are spending, we w ..read more

     So you've made the jump into night vision, and you've got all your gear. NOD, mount, helmet, IR laser, and the rifle to put it on. And now you're wondering, how the f*ck do I zero a PEQ-15, or zero a DBAL, or whichever laser you happen to be running? Depending on your unit, you may not have a visible laser, or the visible laser may not be slaved to your infrared laser, so what's the deal?      There's a few different methods to zero an IR laser, and they all have their own pros and cons. In fact, there's actually two things we're talking about here ..read more

     This is actually the very definition of a first-world problem. How can we best aim our rifles while using our technological super-power, which costs more money than most people in the world make in a year? Worrying about how to best use your super-vision to poke holes in cardboard is right next to picking out flavored butters at the grocery store in the "America, F*ck yeah!" section of why we're the greatest country on earth.      So let's take a look at it. This has become a pretty hot topic in the gun world, with lots of products coming out ..read more

     Why is this even a topic? It's 2022, what technology hasn't been taken over by digital yet? We would be willing to bet that most people have no idea that night vision is still analog. In fact, there's really only one company currently pushing the digital night vision envelope, or even marketing themselves as digital night vision, which is SiOnyx.       That said, many people do modify the Sony A7II camera to film at night, but we doubt if any of them are actually attempting to use it as a night vision observation device for navigation and shooting ..read more

     F*cking magic, that's how. And the truth is after we break this down for you, and give you the best and most technical explanation that we can, those first two words are still going to feel the most accurate. "Image intensification", as it's formally called (because "night vision" can refer to several technologies, if you're a pedantic nerd), has been around in one for or another for almost 80 years now... since the late 1940's. We've made leaps and bounds in its effectiveness since then, but at it's core, it's still just basically an analog vacuum tube CRT television that ..read more