Digital Night Vision

DigitalHunter™ by ELCAN Optical Technologies: The world's first Digital Rifle Scope brings the power of modern electronics and software to the shooting sports.
The Elcan DigitalHunter DayNight KIT includes Day / Night Digital Rifle Scope, 2 Yukon IR flashlights, 1 Tri-Rail mount.

The DAYLIGHT mode provides the same excellent imagery for targeting during the day as Elcan DigitalHunter Digital Rifle Scope (Model #DH1). The LOW LIGHT mode provides stunning low light level performance. When used with a commonly available near-infrared illuminator (not included), Elcan DigitalHunter Day / Night Digital Rifle Scope displays black and white imagery of objects at night up to 65 yds away. Near-infrared illuminators - also called IR Flashlights - emit light that is invisible to humans and most animals.

Take night vision to a whole new level by enhancing the active nighttime performance of the ELCAN Digital-Hunter Day / Night Digital Rifle Scope with the addition of Yukon Infrared Flashlight. The IR Flashlight provides a burst of infrared light (that is virtually invisible to humans and most mammals) in dark environments that creates optimal viewing ability through your Elcan digital rifle scope. Yukon’s IR Flashlight comes fitted with a Weaver and Picatinny mount for secure attachment to your rifle. The included honeycomb filter helps prevent detection while providing illumination.

Elcan DigitalHunter Day / Night Digital Rifle Scope is a lower-cost, good-resolution alternative to image intensifier or infrared rifles copes. And since Elcan DigitalHunter DayNight is a digital riflescope, it provides electronic ballistic compensation, automatic video and still image capture and replay, field selectable reticles, and customizable reticles.

Electronic ballistic compensation enables the shooter to "hold where you want to hit™"! Elcan DigitalHunter Digital Rifle Scope is a range compensating riflescope, removing one contributor (holdover estimate) from the shooting equation.

Additionally, Elcan digital riflescopes are not plagued with common telescope issues such as parallax, magnification change-induced boresight shifts and exit pupil diameter reduction, and limited eye relief.

The four field selectable reticles, when coupled with the four ballistic data tables, enable the scope to function as four different rifle scopes. The Elcan DigitalHunter Digital Rifle Scope can be setup for a centerfire rifle, a shotgun (great for turkey), a crossbow and a muzzleloader. Since the reticles are graphic images they can be any color, shape or size that can be drawn by the user via bitmap generating software...circles, lines, squares. Parallax is avoided since they aren't physical features of an image plane.

Ray Sasser - About Elcan Digital Hunter Rifle Scope

There's a new rifle scope technology on the horizon, a spin-off from military developments made by the Raytheon Company. Traditional hunters and target shooters will not like the Elcan Digital Hunter rifle scope, a Star Wars-looking contraption that one shooting editor described as "butt ugly."

Techno-phobes will run the other way when they see a shooter on the firing line plug a USB cable into a laptop computer and load ballistics information into his rifle scope. Others will embrace the technology as they've done with each progressive step in an evolutionary chain that began with the Chinese invention of gunpowder.

I spent a chilly October morning on a firing line near Mabank being indoctrinated into the digital marksmanship era. My instructors were Jim Florence, chief engineer for Elcan, Rusty Mauldin, the company's sporting optics product manager, and manufacturer's representative Dave Brownfield. Elcan is a Raytheon subsidiary.

To make the demonstration complete, they brought two rifles. The rifles had scope-mounting rails already attached but the scopes were brand new – still in the box.

It took Florence about three minutes to mount a scope on a 30-06. He connected the digital scope to his laptop computer, called up a ballistic software package and entered the muzzle velocity and the ballistic coefficient of the Winchester ammo he was using.

The software calculated bullet drop at any range we might consider taking a shot, and the information was stored in a computer chip inside the scope. To remove as much human error as possible, Florence set the rifle on a shooting cradle called a Lead Sled. He bore-sighted by looking through the bore at a target 50 yards away.

It took me about four shots and corresponding adjustments to place a bullet in the center of that target. After that, all I had to do was tell the scope how far I was shooting, and it automatically adjusted the reticle to deliver a bullet dead-on at the desired range.

Adjustments are made, easily and quickly, through an LCD screen on top of the scope. It's similar to the screen on a digital camera, and it also serves as a playback screen for the video that's automatically triggered whenever a shot is fired.

Mauldin set up three-liter bottles of colored water at 100, 200, 300 and 400 yards and we shot the plastic bottles, replaying the dramatic explosion of water when the bullet struck.

"The video feature was designed as a means for a hunter to record his shot at a game animal and be able to instantly review where the bullet hit or whether the shot was a clean miss," Mauldin said. "The video has become a valuable instructional tool that has made digital scope shooters into better shots."

When I fired at the 400-yard bottle, we all saw something fly up on impact, but the bottle appeared intact. A review of the video indicated that the bullet knocked off the white bottle cap and left the bottle standing.

The Digital Hunter rifle scope comes with four different reticles (crosshair configurations) already programmed into the scope. A white reticle can be selected to stand out against dark backgrounds. If none of the standard reticles suits you, you can design your own.

Unlike other rifle scopes, the Digital Hunter is not a telescope. Zooming is done electronically, from 2.5X to 16.5X magnification. The electronic magnification is parallax free and the exit pupil remains constant, allowing easy target acquisition, even at high power.

The only two drawbacks I could find were price and weight. The digital scope weighs 26 ounces, nearly seven ounces heavier than Leupold's LPS 3.5x to 14x, my personal favorite traditional scope.

Mauldin said physically challenged hunters are particularly excited about the Digital Hunter. It can be used with a video monitoring screen so the rifle can be sighted without your eye to the scope. That's a huge advantage for a quadriplegic, one-armed or no-armed shooter.

To make certain its electronics will not interfere with nearby cellphones, cameras, computers or other electronics, the Digital Hunter is also the only rifle scope approved by the Federal Communications Commission.

DigitalHunter™ by ELCAN Optical Technologies: The world's first Digital Riflescope brings the power of modern electronics and software to the shooting sports.
Elcan DigitalHunter DayNight is a unique product: a Day / Night Digital Riflescope.

The DAYLIGHT mode provides the same excellent imagery for targeting during the day as Elcan DigitalHunter Digital Riflescope (Model #DH1). The LOW LIGHT mode provides stunning low light level performance. When used with a commonly available near-infrared illuminator (not included), Elcan DigitalHunter Day / Night Digital Riflescope displays black and white imagery of objects at night up to 65 yds away. Near-infrared illuminators - also called IR Flashlights - emit light that is invisible to humans and most animals.
Elcan DigitalHunter Day / Night Digital Rifle Scope is a lower-cost, good-resolution alternative to image intensifier or infrared rifles copes. And since Elcan DigitalHunter DayNight is a digital riflescope, it provides electronic ballistic compensation, automatic video and still image capture and replay, field selectable reticles, and customizable reticles.

Electronic ballistic compensation enables the shooter to "hold where you want to hit™"! Elcan DigitalHunter Digital Rifle Scope is a range compensating riflescope, removing one contributor (holdover estimate) from the shooting equation.

Additionally, Elcan digital riflescopes are not plagued with common telescope issues such as parallax, magnification change-induced boresight shifts and exit pupil diameter reduction, and limited eye relief.

The four field selectable reticles, when coupled with the four ballistic data tables, enable the scope to function as four different rifle scopes. The Elcan DigitalHunter Digital Riflescope can be setup for a centerfire rifle, a shotgun (great for turkey), a crossbow and a muzzleloader. Since the reticles are graphic images they can be any color, shape or size that can be drawn by the user via bitmap generating software...circles, lines, squares. Parallax is avoided since they aren't physical features of an image plane.

DigitalHunter DayNight joins DigitalHunter (Model #DH1) in ELCAN's digital riflescope product line.

Ray Sasser - About Elcan Digital Hunter Rifle Scope

There's a new rifle scope technology on the horizon, a spin-off from military developments made by the Raytheon Company. Traditional hunters and target shooters will not like the Elcan Digital Hunter rifle scope, a Star Wars-looking contraption that one shooting editor described as "butt ugly."

Techno-phobes will run the other way when they see a shooter on the firing line plug a USB cable into a laptop computer and load ballistics information into his rifle scope. Others will embrace the technology as they've done with each progressive step in an evolutionary chain that began with the Chinese invention of gunpowder.

I spent a chilly October morning on a firing line near Mabank being indoctrinated into the digital marksmanship era. My instructors were Jim Florence, chief engineer for Elcan, Rusty Mauldin, the company's sporting optics product manager, and manufacturer's representative Dave Brownfield. Elcan is a Raytheon subsidiary.

To make the demonstration complete, they brought two rifles. The rifles had scope-mounting rails already attached but the scopes were brand new – still in the box.

It took Florence about three minutes to mount a scope on a 30-06. He connected the digital scope to his laptop computer, called up a ballistic software package and entered the muzzle velocity and the ballistic coefficient of the Winchester ammo he was using.

The software calculated bullet drop at any range we might consider taking a shot, and the information was stored in a computer chip inside the scope. To remove as much human error as possible, Florence set the rifle on a shooting cradle called a Lead Sled. He bore-sighted by looking through the bore at a target 50 yards away.

It took me about four shots and corresponding adjustments to place a bullet in the center of that target. After that, all I had to do was tell the scope how far I was shooting, and it automatically adjusted the reticle to deliver a bullet dead-on at the desired range.

Adjustments are made, easily and quickly, through an LCD screen on top of the scope. It's similar to the screen on a digital camera, and it also serves as a playback screen for the video that's automatically triggered whenever a shot is fired.

Mauldin set up three-liter bottles of colored water at 100, 200, 300 and 400 yards and we shot the plastic bottles, replaying the dramatic explosion of water when the bullet struck.

"The video feature was designed as a means for a hunter to record his shot at a game animal and be able to instantly review where the bullet hit or whether the shot was a clean miss," Mauldin said. "The video has become a valuable instructional tool that has made digital scope shooters into better shots."

When I fired at the 400-yard bottle, we all saw something fly up on impact, but the bottle appeared intact. A review of the video indicated that the bullet knocked off the white bottle cap and left the bottle standing.

The Digital Hunter rifle scope comes with four different reticles (crosshair configurations) already programmed into the scope. A white reticle can be selected to stand out against dark backgrounds. If none of the standard reticles suits you, you can design your own.

Unlike other rifle scopes, the Digital Hunter is not a telescope. Zooming is done electronically, from 2.5X to 16.5X magnification. The electronic magnification is parallax free and the exit pupil remains constant, allowing easy target acquisition, even at high power.

The only two drawbacks I could find were price and weight. The digital scope weighs 26 ounces, nearly seven ounces heavier than Leupold's LPS 3.5x to 14x, my personal favorite traditional scope.

Mauldin said physically challenged hunters are particularly excited about the Digital Hunter. It can be used with a video monitoring screen so the rifle can be sighted without your eye to the scope. That's a huge advantage for a quadriplegic, one-armed or no-armed shooter.

To make certain its electronics will not interfere with nearby cellphones, cameras, computers or other electronics, the Digital Hunter is also the only rifle scope approved by the Federal Communications Commission.

The innovative Night Owl iGEN 20/20 Digital Night Vision Monocular uses brand new image processing technology that delivers stunning image quality every time. This Night Owl iGen Digital Night Vision Viewer is superior in quality, resolution and clarity. Great for camping, hiking, sailing, wildlife observation and much more; this digital night vision monocular can be used day or night.

With a built-in color view selector the user can select the color to best suit the viewing comfort from Black and White to Green, Red and Amber.

Night Owl iGen 20/20 Night Vision Monocular is the only night vision viewer that can be connected to real-time video, making it possible to record day and night scenery! The all glass 2.6x lens provides 70-ft field of view and ambient light amplification of 650 times. With built-in Night Owl Optics' Infrared Intelligence, wattage adjusts automatically as needed for varying levels of darkness.

The Night Owl iGen Digital Night Vision Monocular also features tripod mount, user adjustable exposure time, variable display brightness, color output choices and custom padded carry bag.

What is SuperVision™?
Nothing less than a paradigm shift in night vision technology, XENONICS SuperVision utilizes the most sensitive and sophisticated CCD sensor in the world to capture invisible moonlight and digitally process the information, in the form of pixels, into a sharp, clear picture on a high-resolution display.

Xenonics SuperVision’s performance compares to military-grade (Gen III) night vision, and provides: greater resolution, better clarity, longer range and zoom capability. Xenonics SuperVision’s patented digital technology offers a 2x to 8x zoom magnification, high resolution HDTV display, and proprietary DSP technology, something no other form of night vision can match. Xenonics SuperVision Digital Night Vision Monocular puts big, bright digital video in the palm of your hand. For people who work and play from dusk till dawn, there is no better tool than SuperVision.

Xenonics SuperVision Digital Night Vision Monocular breaks the paradigm for “seeing in the dark” with a new digital technology that exceeds the performance of military-grade (GEN III) night vision devices at a fraction of the price. Utilizing the most sophisticated CCD sensor in the world, powered by a specially programmed digital signal processor, Xenonics SuperVision picks up ambient infrared light which is invisible to the naked eye and digitally enhances the low-level infrared into a crystal clear black and white image shown on a high-resolution display.

Xenonics SuperVision Digital Night Vision Monocular offers 2x - 8x zoom capability. Even the very best military-grade night vision (costing over $5,000) cannot magnify, much less zoom.
Xenonics SuperVision digital monocular also features an automatic gain control with 3 pre-sets which allows adjustments from twilight to darkest night. This Xenonics digital night vision monocular is ruggedly constructed with a water-tight tough polymer casing. It weighs only 20 ozs. and comes with a convenient hand strap

Xenonics SuperVision Digital Night Vision Monocular runs on a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. An AC charger is included.

The YUKON 5x42 Night Ranger Pro Digital Night Vision Monocular (28046) is a vivid example of successful application of digital technologies in observation optics. Currently this is the ultimate night vision digital device.

The Ranger Pro 5x42 features impressive 5-power magnification and large viewing range - up to 1968 feet. This is due to a highly sensitive CCD array and new Sum Light tm software technology employed in the Ranger Pro device. The Ranger Pro 5x42 Digital NV can surely compete with the Gen.2 in image sharpness and brightness. The image transmitted to the monochrome LCD display is crisp and sharp on the entire field of view.

The unit is able to capture effectively the light flux of a wide wave range in conditions of natural night illumination. To conduct observation on a cloudy moonless night, the adjustable IR illuminator can be used. The wave length amounts to 940nm (remote area of the IR range, invisible to the human eye) - the observer is "invisible' even if the unit is used in the active mode. The built-in video output allows transferring of the image to a monitor or a TV set which facilitates long-time stationary viewing, and video recording to external recording devices.

The Yukon RANGER™ 5x42 Digital Night Vision Scope is the next generation of night vision - Digital Night Vision. The innovative approach that customers have come to expect from Yukon is evident in the Ranger’s revolutionary digital night vision capabilities.

The Yukon Ranger 5x42 Digital Night Vision Scope has the highest magnification available, and the clearest image, that you just can’t get with traditional night vision. With the best edge-to-edge resolution on the market, the Ranger 5x42 Digital Night Vision Scope rivals the effectiveness of comparable Gen 2 and Gen 3 night vision devices at any range.

The Stealth IR™ invisible infrared illuminator built in the Ranger 5x42 Digital Night Vision Scope ensures that the beam is invisible to watchful eyes at any range. What is most amazing about this digital night vision device is that, unlike ordinary night vision, the Yukon Ranger 5x42 Digital Night Vision Scope can be used for daytime, as well as nighttime, operation without damaging the device.

The Yukon RANGER™ 5x42 Digital Night Vision Scope is designed to be the most versatile unit available, with a durable, compact body and unique innovations including a direct video output for video recording or remote viewing.
The Ranger Digital Night Vision Scope is backed by Yukon’s Limited Lifetime Warranty.