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In partnership with BrightPath Solutions SG, we have developed a new Mil qualified lens solution entering the market Q2 2025. BrightPath Solutions SG was created by former key members of the Qiopti...

Qioptiq, a branch of Excelitas Technologies in Singapore has been a staple of the nightvision industry for about two decades. They have historically been one of the largest producers of lenses for ...

It has unfortunately come to a point where we feel it is necessary to address fraudulent claims from Canadian competitors. This has gone on for too long, so we feel the need to make this public kno...

Rochester Precision Optics is an optics manufacturer based in Rochester, New York known for producing the lightweight optics found in PVS-31, GPNVG-18, and various other military programs. In the c...

We're sure many other dealers were also recently blasted with solicitation emails and Instagram messages from relatively unknown people and companies from China advertising Gen 3 White Phosphor tub...

As the holiday season signals the close of 2023, the night vision community has been gifted with a new premium offering from Photonis: the new 4G+ High Gain image intensifiers that we are now integ...

It is necessary for us to apologize for the time since our last technical piece. Our business has been rapidly expanding and we have been working hard to keep up. Recently we have relocated and bui...

Photonis 4G+ is the highest end tube offering from Photonis. The minimum specifications are much higher than that of their ECHO and ECHO+ tubes, but they are more than twice the cost. Are they wort...

Recently Rochester Precision Optics released their 3.0 Ultralight lens system. We have been a huge fan of RPO's ultralight lens offerings for some time and we were excited to be one of the first de...

The important specs to look at in determining the performance levels of image intensifier tubes are mostly, sort of, consistent across manufacturers (but not really). What is meant by this is that ...

Collimation is too complicated to explain in a blog post, so here's a video explaining it. Hopefully this will be the first of a series of informational videos regarding the technicalities behind n...

Disclaimer: Lens information is extremely difficult to ascertain in an industry as elusive as nightvision, and is very difficult to verify as companies do not like to discose OEMs. Information prov...

Building nightvision has always been a pleasure and we've decided to take it a step further by adding a Cerakote service in partnership with RosscoCoating in Burlington, ON. Many people like custo...