Yes, really.  I meant to try translate his valid concerns without the drama.  I failed.  

Vic, would an HDR photo (High Dynamic Range) help with displaying what the eye sees through the NV device?

There's a problem when our displays can only show 256 different brightness values of green. With night vision HDR imaging would mean reducing the shadows to bring up details, but would that look any better?

Good cameras with good lenses can capture over 12 bits (or even 14 bits when you add a trailing zero to the price) of useful data per color channel (12 bits = 4096 brightness values, 14 = 16384), but the problem of showing them remains. There is work underway to bring more bit depth to screens (televisions will be the first as it's the easiest one to convert, not that much software and hardware to redo) already this year. We might see televisions on Christmas that do this and hopefully work is also underway for PC operating systems & graphics hardware to support more color depth.

Man does that gen 1 viper suck. The D300 is about the lowest performing tube I'd feel comfortable even letting somebody use. The gen 2+ SHP actually really impressed me though. That tube is LIGHTYEARS better than the D300, although it clearly has its struggles as well.

I also notice the ITT tube is a bit "brighter" than the L3 tube, although not enough of a difference to pick one over the other. This was an awesome test. Best NV post I've read thus far.