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Topic: Digital Rifle Scope
Posted By: Urimaginaryfrnd
Subject: Digital Rifle Scope
Date Posted: June/24/2006 at 08:37

http://www.elcansportingoptics.com/ - http://www.elcansportingoptics.com/

 

It's a new one on me but I thought I'd share this with you.  How about it Chris do you have any info on these.



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Posted By: silver
Date Posted: June/24/2006 at 10:17

 

 

Notice they did not show any rainy day pictures



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Posted By: macky
Date Posted: June/24/2006 at 11:22

There's lots of electronics that can be used in rainy weather, just got to seal everything up real good .... digital fish finders are virtually "waterproof"  .... the concept is good, wonder if they can pull it off.

 

With the right resolution the flexibility would be endless



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Posted By: Charlie70
Date Posted: June/24/2006 at 11:29
IN the specs sheet, it says it is rainproof. Would like to see some real world testing though.... It also says the exit pupil stays the same dia.(12mm) throughout the magnification range of 2.5' to 16.5'


Posted By: ranburr
Date Posted: June/24/2006 at 12:34

Complete waste of money for the average hunter.

 

ranburr



Posted By: macky
Date Posted: June/24/2006 at 12:42
Who's talking about the average hunter ..... THIS IS TOYS MAN .... get with the program

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Posted By: silver
Date Posted: June/24/2006 at 13:30

 

 

Where is the Solar charger?



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Posted By: SCOOP
Date Posted: June/24/2006 at 19:23
thats fantastic for t.v. hunters.


Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: June/25/2006 at 00:01
    I would trust it if it was made by zeiss...


Posted By: lucznik
Date Posted: June/29/2006 at 17:44

Originally posted by Charlie70 Charlie70 wrote:

It... says the exit pupil stays the same dia.(12mm) throughout the magnification range of 2.5' to 16.5'

 

How is that possible?

 

It would seem to contradict the most basic elements of the very definition of the exit pupil.



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Posted By: silver
Date Posted: June/29/2006 at 19:32
Originally posted by lucznik lucznik wrote:

Originally posted by Charlie70 Charlie70 wrote:

It... says the exit pupil stays the same dia.(12mm) throughout the magnification range of 2.5' to 16.5'

 

How is that possible?

 

It would seem to contradict the most basic elements of the very definition of the exit pupil.

 

It's digital...  The magification comes from digitaly magifying things not opticaly.  If you have a zoom button on your tv, it does the same thing. This thing is like a camcorder.



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Posted By: Roy Finn
Date Posted: June/29/2006 at 20:44
Anthony, that trust is going to set you back $4000+. Bushnell and Burris make similar units to the Elcan for 800ish. None of them have a place on one of my rifles.


Posted By: Charlie70
Date Posted: June/29/2006 at 23:45

Roy Finn,

 I believe the Bushnell and Burris you are referring to are laser rangefinding scopes only. I thought they were the same too because they look the same in appearance, but they aren't digital. Maybe someone could correct me if I'm wrong....



Posted By: lucznik
Date Posted: June/30/2006 at 15:11
Originally posted by silver silver wrote:

Originally posted by lucznik lucznik wrote:

Originally posted by Charlie70 Charlie70 wrote:

It... says the exit pupil stays the same dia.(12mm) throughout the magnification range of 2.5' to 16.5'

 

How is that possible?

 

It would seem to contradict the most basic elements of the very definition of the exit pupil.

 

It's digital...  The magification comes from digitaly magifying things not opticaly.  If you have a zoom button on your tv, it does the same thing. This thing is like a camcorder.

 

Unless riflescope manufacturers have some knowledge base that is unknown to digital camera manufacturers (unlikely as they are often the same companies making both products,) I would not trust anything that used a digital zoom.  In cameras, such zooms are all total crap.  They don't magnify the image at all.  They just make the pixels bigger - which quickly destroys image quality.  So, when evaluating the zoom range of a digital camera, you should ignore any kind of digital zoom and focus exclusively on the optical zoom capacity.  I'm sure technology will eventually advance to where digital zooms have legitimate value but, that time is not now.

 

Do you really have a zoom button on your TV?  I've never seen such a thing.



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