{"id":5297,"date":"2017-04-10T09:35:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2017-04-10T09:35:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:35:46","slug":"night-vision-color-5000000-iso-that-looks-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/night-vision-color-5000000-iso-that-looks-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Night vision: Color 5,000,000 ISO that looks good?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 2am in a long-past life, I terrified some young kids fishing for sharks off the end of their pier in Puget Sound. I was wearing night vision goggles in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brunswickcgp.com\/page.aspx\/pageid\/155991\/Special-Ops-Combat.aspx\">RIB<\/a> alongside a bunch of M16-toting Navy guys, and we\u2019d been quietly paddling around the boys\u2019 pier\u00a0as we hid from our own ships while we stalked Rangers. But that\u2019s a whole other story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.x20.org\/color-night-vision\/\">The X27<\/a> seems amazing &amp; makes the goggles I wore look like Frogger by comparison:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8bTgG2Ft4xQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kottke <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/17\/04\/incredible-low-light-camera-turns-night-into-day\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The camera was developed for military use, has an effective ISO rating of 5,000,000, and has a comically long name: \u201cX27 Reconnaissance Day\/Night high Fidelity true real time low light\/low lux color night vision Imaging Security \/ Multi Purpose camera system\u201d. Pricing information is not available, but I bet you\u2019re paying for every single one of those words.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/NewImage-10.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"341\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8bTgG2Ft4xQ\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 2am in a long-past life, I terrified some young kids fishing for sharks off the end of their pier in Puget Sound. I was wearing night vision goggles in a RIB alongside a bunch of M16-toting Navy guys, and we\u2019d been quietly paddling around the boys\u2019 pier\u00a0as we hid from our own ships while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5298,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions\/5298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}