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Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 09 3:08 pm Post subject: Nigh vision scope for under a ton at Aldi
This week Aldi are offering a first generation night vision monocular with IR spotter beam for a penny under ï¿½100 - https://aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/offers_week40Thursday09.htm?WT.z_src=main .

yummersetter

Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 3241
Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 09 3:38 pm Post subject:
essential for when we're processing film ( yes we're still doing loads of that! ) therefore, I reckon, a tax deductable whatsit, don't you agree?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45698
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 09 3:47 pm Post subject:
I must dig out my negs from here: https://www.coppedhalltrust.org.uk/ Took some pics in 92? when the place was just a wreck, a couple were really good but overexposed, I'd like to get them hand printed to a decent size to give to them.

yummersetter

Joined: 26 Jan 2008
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Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 09 3:51 pm Post subject:
overexposed isn't nearly as much of a problem as under ( unless they're transparencies)

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 09 3:54 pm Post subject:
I had some prints done at the time by a Chinese guy I used to use off Clerkenwell Rd, he got them just right, there were two I really liked I had one done as a selenium and the other gold if I remember right. No idea where they are now.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 09 3:55 pm Post subject:
And on the subject of exposure they're doing thermals for pennies as well.

yummersetter

Joined: 26 Jan 2008
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Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 09 3:59 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

I had some prints done at the time by a Chinese guy I used to use off Clerkenwell Rd, he got them just right, there were two I really liked I had one done as a selenium and the other gold if I remember right. No idea where they are now.

Aaah - black and white - Danny Chau

they stopped doing 'proper' printing a few years back, just inkjets now. I have BW done by Robin Bell, we often work together on projects, he does the monochrome, I do the colour.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45698
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 09 4:02 pm Post subject:

yummersetter wrote:

Aaah - black and white - Danny Chau

That's the man, he were good.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 09 9:47 pm Post subject:
Don't get over excited. Its more than likely a load of rubbish. I bought one back from the states a couple of years ago and it was hardly worth having.

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 09 9:50 pm Post subject:
A decent (Gen 2) one would set you back a minimum of ï¿½1500. This one would offer you a snowstorm with the occasional pair of glinting eyes.

Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 5645
Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 09 11:16 pm Post subject:
quite a few soldiers on a forum rate them quite well, even though its 1st Gen they recon its a fair bit of kit for the price.

KILLITnGRILLIT

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Posts: 894
Location: Looking at a screen in the front room

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 09 12:45 pm Post subject:

I got them the last time they came out and rate them for rabbits with the IR on them but with an IR filter on my lamp it`s like night and day !!

They are good for creeping about the countryside in the dark. I spotted someone passing on the otherside of a wood from me with full beam on their vehicle and I thought it must be a farmer, then the lights went out and for 5-10 minutes nothing, so I switched on the NV and scanned the woods.
Lo and behold I spotted a light through it that I couldn`t see with my eyes and they seemed to be lamping the trees for roosting pheasant and as it was owned by the farmer I was lamping rabbits/foxes for I decided to give them a warning.
I fired an un-modded .222 into a bale ! The light went out and the vehicle ended up driving off with the lights out

Good bits of kit IMHO.

smokingdragon

Joined: 22 Aug 2009
Posts: 68
Location: Nr. Neath S.Wales

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 09 10:02 pm Post subject:
Hi I bought a Lidl version last Christmas for about the same price and that is excellent! Add a LED IR torch (Spiderfire?) form Ebay and you can light up an area of about 60-70 mtrs

jema
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 09 8:38 am Post subject:
But go to cheap, and what happens? https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8296016.stm

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