Brand new to NV/Thermal. Should I just skip all the research and impulse buy a GF31?
My thought process:
*Thermal is necessary/clutch for spotting humans/animals
*Clip on thermals aren’t nearly as good
*Downsides of digital NV don’t seem to apply much if at all here since the latency is so low and the thermal compliments the night vision and such a way that it makes up for some of the short falls.
*I saw videos also where someone had dual NVG tubes, but with the clip on the thermal, but the thermal capabilities seemed very weak compared to a dedicated fusion
* I saw a video where the set up was one tube was night vision and the other tube was thermal, which seemed pretty cool, but it doesn’t seem to work as well together since each eye looking at different things. The one cool thing I saw them do, though is that they would pop the thermal tube off their helmet and then pop it onto their rifle pretty quickly, which seems like a cool feature.
* it just seems like a really good plug-in play option. A few years ago, I had done some tactical training with guys who had been doing NVG stuff and they all complained that it was such a pain figuring out which mounts go with which tubes and helmets and getting everything working well together just get it all set up.
* from Grok: “The GF31 runs pure night vision at up to 100 frames per second. In outline mode the night vision side stays at 100 fps while the thermal overlay is limited to 50 fps, and full fusion mode drops both to 50 fps. That 50 fps figure is standard for thermal sensors and feels smooth with no noticeable lag for walking or scanning,”