first night with the cam night vision

[barrywhite 282]

Hi I am after just a little more help please I have a set up which I can focus the cam and get a good pic out to hundred yards at night but I lose the cross hairs I focus the cross hairs and loss the pic it is so close but have I done some thing wrong in my set up please help some one. the cam is a car reverse thing I have taken out the lens and replaced it with a manual zoom lens 4 to 22 times my scope is a 4x12 mag but every thing else is fixed focus I really do get a good pic but no cross or cross and not a very good pic the cam is housed in a dark tube no light I have tried holding the cam up tight to the scope to about a inch inch and half away. help

...............This is a problem I am having some scopes I have work better than others .At the moment I got an ok picture with a blury cross hair a blend of the two setting you discribe.I will try to get it better I have not messed with my object lense on the scope yet .The picture in the scope and the blury cross hair are still as good as a gen1 night scope or better with plenty of ir light.I focus my camera to about one and a half feet then I put it about two inches from the object lense .the scopes with thick crosshairs and low magnification seem the best so far.I also take a lot or the colour of the monitor screen there is a setting hue and saturation?????.I am not saying this is how to do it ,it is what i have done so far .

[kanny 20,611]

Hi I am after just a little more help please I have a set up which I can focus the cam and get a good pic out to hundred yards at night but I lose the cross hairs I focus the cross hairs and loss the pic it is so close but have I done some thing wrong in my set up please help some one. the cam is a car reverse thing I have taken out the lens and replaced it with a manual zoom lens 4 to 22 times my scope is a 4x12 mag but every thing else is fixed focus I really do get a good pic but no cross or cross and not a very good pic the cam is housed in a dark tube no light I have tried holding the cam up tight to the scope to about a inch inch and half away. help

 

hi mark i can only speak in terms of the sony handy cam i focus the cam on the crosshairs then focus the veiw in the scope with either front or side focus depending on your scope.. ... another tip is to just zoom your camera in to fill the scope veiw with the scope on min zoom then just use your scope zoom if you need more magnification....hope this helps

Edited May 8, 2012 by kanny

[ghillies 209]

Hi I am after just a little more help please I have a set up which I can focus the cam and get a good pic out to hundred yards at night but I lose the cross hairs I focus the cross hairs and loss the pic it is so close but have I done some thing wrong in my set up please help some one. the cam is a car reverse thing I have taken out the lens and replaced it with a manual zoom lens 4 to 22 times my scope is a 4x12 mag but every thing else is fixed focus I really do get a good pic but no cross or cross and not a very good pic the cam is housed in a dark tube no light I have tried holding the cam up tight to the scope to about a inch inch and half away. help

...............This is a problem I am having some scopes I have work better than others .At the moment I got an ok picture with a blury cross hair a blend of the two setting you discribe.I will try to get it better I have not messed with my object lense on the scope yet .The picture in the scope and the blury cross hair are still as good as a gen1 night scope or better with plenty of ir light.I focus my camera to about one and a half feet then I put it about two inches from the object lense .the scopes with thick crosshairs and low magnification seem the best so far.I also take a lot or the colour of the monitor screen there is a setting hue and saturation?????.I am not saying this is how to do it ,it is what i have done so far .

 

yup turn the sats down to zero, and some times the hue will help as a constrast agent to the BW image.

[Mark White 25]

Hi I am after just a little more help please I have a set up which I can focus the cam and get a good pic out to hundred yards at night but I lose the cross hairs I focus the cross hairs and loss the pic it is so close but have I done some thing wrong in my set up please help some one. the cam is a car reverse thing I have taken out the lens and replaced it with a manual zoom lens 4 to 22 times my scope is a 4x12 mag but every thing else is fixed focus I really do get a good pic but no cross or cross and not a very good pic the cam is housed in a dark tube no light I have tried holding the cam up tight to the scope to about a inch inch and half away. help

...............This is a problem I am having some scopes I have work better than others .At the moment I got an ok picture with a blury cross hair a blend of the two setting you discribe.I will try to get it better I have not messed with my object lense on the scope yet .The picture in the scope and the blury cross hair are still as good as a gen1 night scope or better with plenty of ir light.I focus my camera to about one and a half feet then I put it about two inches from the object lense .the scopes with thick crosshairs and low magnification seem the best so far.I also take a lot or the colour of the monitor screen there is a setting hue and saturation?????.I am not saying this is how to do it ,it is what i have done so far .

Hi I am after just a little more help please I have a set up which I can focus the cam and get a good pic out to hundred yards at night but I lose the cross hairs I focus the cross hairs and loss the pic it is so close but have I done some thing wrong in my set up please help some one. the cam is a car reverse thing I have taken out the lens and replaced it with a manual zoom lens 4 to 22 times my scope is a 4x12 mag but every thing else is fixed focus I really do get a good pic but no cross or cross and not a very good pic the cam is housed in a dark tube no light I have tried holding the cam up tight to the scope to about a inch inch and half away. help

...............This is a problem I am having some scopes I have work better than others .At the moment I got an ok picture with a blury cross hair a blend of the two setting you discribe.I will try to get it better I have not messed with my object lense on the scope yet .The picture in the scope and the blury cross hair are still as good as a gen1 night scope or better with plenty of ir light.I focus my camera to about one and a half feet then I put it about two inches from the object lense .the scopes with thick crosshairs and low magnification seem the best so far.I also take a lot or the colour of the monitor screen there is a setting hue and saturation?????.I am not saying this is how to do it ,it is what i have done so far .

 

Well I am sorted now thanks to every one that helped I can get a good clear pic with clear cross hairs out to about 150 meters shot a rabbit at round 60 meters straight between the eyes. I will tell you what the probs I had as this may help some other to. Focusing prob was due to the camera not being directly down the scope although i had a good pic of either the quarry or the cross it was a reflective image from inside the tube and it only has to be slightly off centre for this to happen, If your pic looks clearer in some parts of the screen then it is prob what I have just said. the other problem I had was getting the camera the right distance from the scope to close meant I could not use the full zoom properly causing the zoom function not to operate fully, I found that once I had made my new bracket zoom the scope out to it lowest setting zoom the camera in to max then slide the camera along until the image became clear then fixed it off mine is about 2 inches. The other problem with distance was the lamp although my lamp has a 400 meter beam and is adjustable at 100 meters I was losing the pic it was getting darker the beam could not go any higher it turned out it needed to come lower so adjusted it to a 200 meter beam at 150 meters I can still see the cement lines with a bit of detail in it. so I am very happy just got to work out now how to judge distance I am taking a low level flash light with me at the mo so once I have found the quarry I flick it on and get a glimpse then I no what it looks like on the screen at that distance if this does not work I may just by a cheap range finder.