Dr. Detector
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Post by Dr. Detector on Jan 24, 2017 5:17:08 GMT -8
If you enter the menu and find the zoom function you'll see it is factory set to standard. However, when trying to zoom in with it set on standard picture quality degrades extremely quickly. So, by switching to Extended mode you'll get "MUCH" better resolution for those distant creatures needing to get a pill prescribed "Doc"
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Post by omegaman on Jan 24, 2017 17:11:49 GMT -8
Good info! I had wondered why if it was HD, the zoom seemed so coarse! Thanks!
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Post by mvintx on Mar 27, 2017 18:36:26 GMT -8
Hey Doc, I tried the extended zoom on my 384-1.25-5 and even with the lastest firmware, the image is very splotchy. I perform a NUC after every zoom and whenever the image degrades and yes, it does clear up the picture but the target image is not great. At 100 yards, I would like to see a fairly clear outline of the animal, not a bunch of jumbled pixels. I'm not confident of placing a shot in the neck area of a hog. Center mass body shot - yeah, it's do-able but nothing more precise than that.
I wonder what the image looks like on the 50 or 100mm Thors? Anybody have one?
Here's some video I took the other night. The feeder is about 115 yards from my blind. The deer on the left look to be about the same distance, maybe a little beyond. The deer on the right are probably 70 yards where the video stops and they present a very good image. Magnification looks to be between 5X and 8X maybe but I can't remember exactly. I had some hogs show up last night but they didn't hang around long...just a couple of minutes. They ran off while I was fooling around with the zoom and NUC, trying to get the best picture I could. When I got back on the scope, everyone was gone.
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fr3db3ar
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Post by fr3db3ar on Jun 18, 2017 14:42:38 GMT -8
It's digital zoom when you double the zoom you half the resolution.
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