Imagine this. You’re in the field under cover of darkness, hoping to add some more fur to your belt before the season closes at the end of the winter.
Your rifle is equipped with a thermal scope. At the edge of a far field, there’s movement. You ratchet up the digital zoom through your scope to get a better look, but the entire sight picture goes fuzzy.
It completely eliminates your ability to make a positive ID, derailing you until the target moves closer, which is out of your hands.
This is how it works with a thermal scope that’s only equipped with digital zoom. As you zoom in with digital zoom, sight picture quality deteriorates.
The loss of sight picture quality is not as extreme with ocular zoom, which is the same basic functionality that glass optics use. The problem is that most thermal scopes don’t have that functionality.
There is one, though, the Nocpix ACE S60R, that is equipped with true ocular zoom, which changes the game.
Ocular Zoom Has Entered the Chat
The problem with digital zoom is that it’s not a true magnifier. It’s a software “crop,” essentially, which takes a small inset of the picture and makes it appear larger.
It does this without a lens; it just takes a small portion of the sight picture and makes it larger using software. Without adding more pixels to the image and without a lens to actually magnify the image, the original capture gets distorted and detail is lost.
For minor zooms, this is hardly ever a problem, but for trying to get a closer look at a target that’s a long way off, digital zoom is hardly useful at all. It’s really only practical at quite close ranges.
Now, this is not to knock digital zoom. It is a necessary feature and without it, most thermal scopes would not be able to execute any sort of magnification. But it is highly limited in its utility.
This is the precise reason that some thermal scopes, notably the Nocpix ACE S60R, are such game changers. This one is equipped with true ocular zoom, similar to that used by conventional glass optics.
True ocular zoom uses a lens built into the eyepiece and as a result, it enables a zoom functionality that magnifies the image without a loss of image quality. This makes it superior not just to digital zoom, but to optical zoom as well.
The Nocpix ACE S60R, among its many other features, has an ocular zoom feature that enables 1-3x magnification of the sight picture with no loss of quality.
It won’t give you the ability to see a target way far off, but at closer ranges, for more precise identification or shot placement, it’s better than digital zoom.
This is just one feature that, along with a long-lasting battery, high image quality, and an integrated laser rangefinder, makes this one of the best thermal scopes on the market right now.
Where to Learn More About This Nocpix Thermal Scope
Interested in learning more about this Nocpix thermal scope which offers true ocular zoom functionality? Visit Dark Night Outdoors or give them a call at 309-781-8421. They carry a wide range of the industry’s best thermal scopes, and this isn’t the only one they carry from Nocpix.
If you have questions about any of the thermal optics they sell or would like a recommendation, get in touch with them and they will help you out.
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