Introducing: Photonis 4G+ High Gain

Introducing: Photonis 4G+ High Gain

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...
Technical Comparison: RPO 3.0 vs Carson

Technical Comparison: RPO 3.0 vs Carson

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+ - How Does it Compare?

Photonis 4G+ - How Does it Compare?

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...
RPO 2.0 vs 3.0 at a Glance

RPO 2.0 vs 3.0 at a Glance

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...
Understanding SI vs US Tube Specifications

Understanding SI vs US Tube Specifications

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 Explained

Collimation Explained

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...
NNVT vs Photonis ECHO at a Glance

NNVT vs Photonis ECHO at a Glance

NNVT (North Night Vision Technology) is a company that produces image intensifier tubes from China. Recently they have entered the Western commercial market with Gen 2 White Phosphor image tubes th...
PVS-14 Objective Lens Comparison

PVS-14 Objective Lens Comparison

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...
Cerakoting NVGs with RosscoCoating

Cerakoting NVGs with RosscoCoating

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...