Quoted: Not a NV expert, only recently got my first device recently. In general NV is very very low quality in terms of picture and construction. It is however much cheaper, $300-600 is the general price range. if NV is something you want to dabble in a cheap gen 1 won't eat up too much but if you like it and want more you just wasted $300+.
I was looking at a gen 1 ATN scope at the store and realized I could not see a riticule. asked the guy he didn't either. came back from asking around and said to "ok, it looks like a smudge but if you look closely in the center..." if you want basic tactical ability go with gen 2, D-300 a great deal, talk to victor the moderator thats the route I went and I am happy. |
Pretty much what he said. I bought a Yukon Gen 1 mono, I was really unimpressed... It was cool for about 5 minutes, until I realized that I can see in the dark better with the naked eye
I then bought a D-300 Gen 2, which was a huge improvement. It provided a lot better field of view, not near as much distortion (fish eye effect). Yet I still was not content, so I bought a PVS-14(gen 3). The image is perfect, a nice bright green, no distortion, no black specs and it came with a spec. card from Litton.
As far as price is concerned, I paid 188$ for the Yukon Gen 1, 1000$ for the D-300 Gen 2 and 3500 $ for the PVS-14 gen 3. By far the biggest jump in performance is from Gen 1 to 2.
Hope this helps,