One of the most common questions for those taking up night shooting is which type of spotter to use. In essence, there are two basic types – night vision or NV (either tubed or digital) and thermal. The former give an enhanced view of the landscape by massively amplifying the amount of light they receive. Thermal imagers, however, work on an entirely different principle – they ‘see’ the world in the infrared part of the spectrum (in other words, in varying degrees of heat) and then translate the information into a visual form.
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