This thermal imaging monocular was exactly what I wanted: something that I could use for airsoft, and also just to have fun with!
So: let me tell you what It's really like in your hands.
First of all, it's pretty awesome! It's just fun to use and entertaining! Secondly, it is disorienting to use. The camera, when you think about it, is on the end of a tube. So if you are slightly tilting the monocular, it makes your vision in your brain feel weird. Every now and then, the frames per second (FPS) will freeze... and then resume again. It's also pretty grainy compared to a phone camera. But, I mean, it's thermal imaging! How cool is that?
It is 1X zoom, so that's pretty nice. However, the window that your looking through is about as wide as your hand at arms distance, if you stretch your thumb furthest to the left and the rest of your fingers to the right. So navigating a room by yourself in the dark when all you have is the monocular is pretty hard. Someone could be right next to the doorway and you miss them if you happen to not look that way.
HOWEVER: Here's a cool thing! Any itty bitty part of a person that the camera could possibly see, shows up super clearly! If you are trying to hide from this camera, it's really hard! Hide and seek is a ton of fun to play with this thing. If you are trying to spy on the "seeker" and peek around something to see where they are, they can see you clear as day! It's like your face is a flashlight. The only way to hide from this is to com...
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