Product Description

The brand new Night Owl Discovery NODS3 is a versatile night vision monocular incorporating the powerful integrated infrared illuminator and a tripod adapter within a lightweight and small body frame. It features soft-touch control buttons, power and IR indicators and a compact ergonomic design that comfortably fits in one hand. Equipped with the standard five-element glass ocular and an objective assembly that includes a condenser lens for brighter images.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42983 in Sports & Outdoors
• Brand: Night Owl
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 5.00" h x 7.00" w x 11.00" l, 2.00 pounds

Features

• Hand-cradle for easy, comfortable, and secure one-handed use
• Condensed lens for brighter images
• Powerful built-in infrared illuminator and a tripod mount
• Ergonomic and attractive new compact design
• Spectral sensitivity of 400-900nm (nanometers)

Amazon.com Product Description
The Night Owl Discovery night vision-scope has an ergonomic and attractive new compact design. Its hand-cradle gives you easy, comfortable yet secure one-handed operational use. This monocular is extremely versatile and incorporates a powerful built-in infrared illuminator and a tripod mount into a lightweight and compact body. Night Owl used their standard five-element glass for both the oculars and the objective lenses, giving you a condensed lens and brighter images. This monocular also features soft-touch control buttons, power and IR indicators. It requires two AA batteries to operate.

From the Manufacturer
The brand new Discovery is a versatile night vision monocular incorporating our powerful integrated infrared illuminator and a tripod adapter within a lightweight and small body frame. It features soft-touch control buttons, power and IR indicators and a compact ergonomic design that comfortably fits in one hand. Equipped with our standard five-element glass ocular and an objective assembly that includes a condenser lens for brighter images.

Features include:

• Ergonomic and attractive new compact design and styling
• Features a handle-cradle for easier one hand operation
• Powerful built-in infrared illuminator and a tripod mount

Customer Reviews

Not useful due to very small field of vision
The field of vision is too small for any useful viewing. If you already know where your object is in the dark, then you can point this device towards the object and view it in dark. But if you are searching for an object in the dark, the small field of vision makes the search useless.

Also, there is too much "noise" in the image, thus making it very difficult to recognize the object that you are viewing.

The IR makes the field of vision even smaller.

Overall I did not find this device useful even for ordinary pleasure viewing.

By the way, if you own a camcorder with night-view, you already know how how the objects look in the dark. You can use your camcorder's night view feature instead of buying this expensive device

Not useful
I bought this item over a year ago, and it has never served for anything. Once I spotted a deer and turned on the "IR" illuminator, and the deer ran away - not too surprising, it is actually a red light and totally visible for most animals. Better use a flashlight. This is a first-generation nightscope, and has a very small range of utility: If there is a little light, the adapted human eye sees better, and if there is almost no light the device does not see either. 100 bucks is not too much of a waste, but if you are serious about nightvision you should spend about 10 times as much.

Disregard the bad review.
I bought this from Amazon and am thoroughly impressed. The field of view is fine, and you can see a ton of detail within a reasonable range. I turned out the lights in my room, looked out the window with it at my pool (20 feet away) and saw ripples in the water. I aimed it up at the sky, and saw a line of incoming airline traffic that I couldn't see otherwise. I took it down to the basement -- pitch black -- used the infrared illuminator and could read the text off boxes. Taking it outside, I could see clearly the houses across the street, cars, dogs outside -- just a ton of stuff. Remove the gear from my eye and I can see little to nothing. The thing's a beaut.

My only concerns are about how long it will last and hold up. Light damages this type of technology if handled improperly, and I'm hoping that generally careful use and no abuse will keep this thing purring for a long time. The power source is convenient too --- two double AA's are all you need.