Thread: Cheap thermal or night vision

Get analogue 1st generation night vision for lowest cost. These are the ones that intensify natural light but will also show up NIR - near infrared - light. And so you can illuminate rabbits with NIR spotlights. It will reflect off their retinas too, like with a normal spotlight.

Far infrared light is the heat/thermal spectrum, just to clarify. Thermal is expensive but will locate animals much quicker, but if they are so hard to locate, are there enough of them around to be pests??? Thermal is great if the possums or rabbits arm up with night vision and shoot back at you, since they can't locate you by your spotlight like when you use NIR. If the pests are unarmed and with no night vision gear there is no real disadvantage to using a LED NIR spotlight.

You can in theory use a USB camera mounted behind your normal rifle scope and rig something up so you can see the image on a mobile phone, but you'll need to have a NIR light mounted on the scope, also you'd need to first open the camera and remove its NIR filter (all digital cameras filter out NIR to reduce blur, that filter is what often makes digital cameras look a bit red when you stare into the lens). USB cameras are cheap as and you can make Heath Robinson proud. (o: