They've made a lot of small improvements since release.

Hop you have to simultaneously keep doing and stop doing this to yourself.

That water mark is what's going to radicalize me

I'm like a battered housewife, I keep coming back to these videos even though I know I can't justify getting NVGs

This is where hop realized he wanted to become a rapper by the name Hopsin

But bro, didn't you hear? Digital night vision is the future and performs better than a gen 3 pvs7. Surely big phosphor is paying you off to publish this hit piece.

"I'm not enjoying this" is the moto of type-two-fun events.

you're pissing low left, try relaxing your firing hand

I was thinking "better than nothing" until I saw the price. For $2000, I would expect way better quality.

I can’t tell how many times I’ve heard Hop say on multiple channels, “I’m not enjoying this!” On multiple videos…it should be a patch at this rate 9:13

I watched the whole video and came to this conclusion: Hop REALLY enjoys the tunnel crawl and hopes it’s longer next year.

So the answer is the same. "If you have to ask, you can't afford it."

Thank you for your sacrifice sir

I shot at the same match, and had a guy on my squad that also was using an Opsin. We shot on a overcast cloudy night that turned into rain the first night, and near perfect conditions on the second night. He was gracious enough to let me look through his Opsin on the first night and I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that unit is only good for static observation on a properly dark night. For comparison I was using an Elbit white Phos tube with good stats, and I never felt like they were the thing holding me back. The Syonix Opsin was able to generate a good image, but at the cost of framerate. So every time I turned my head the world went blurry and it was unusable. He said that at the higher framerates that goes away but that 60+ FPS rates were not able to generate a good image in the overcast conditions. I didn't get a chance to notice the latency because I was just standing around turning my head. But at lower framerates you can't even do that without the world turning to pixelated mush. The device does intrigue me, and I am curious to see how it progresses. As it stands I could not in good faith recommend as a tactical, fighting unit. The performance isn't there yet and the framerate is frankly horrible when it's actually dark. However, if you were say a cop maybe a detective doing night time surveillance, this device would be badass. Or maybe you're a hunter with a dedicated thermal optic and just want a cheap static observation tool in a blind for recording your shots. Static observation, especially where recorded video is desired, this device rules that niche.

I'm glad you bought this so I don't have to.

Finally a Digital Night vision review that dosent feel like shilling or is a dude saying "ehhh, it works for me"

Video quality is directly correlated with how much Hop suffers while making it.

The pisscam had me laughing because I didn't expect it.

I feel so spoiled whenever Hop wastes money on us.

Hardcoding a watermark on video files on a $2k+ device is like buying a blu-ray and their being ads in the middle of the movie. Scummy and gross.

Hop with a beard is terrifying, It's like I'm watching guntuber Fred Durst...

Hop I have no useful input so I'm just going to say hello.

So, keep on rocking my PVS7's... I appreciate these reviews because SIOnyx really does make some mean marketing pitches!

a total gamechanger would be if you could stream videos on that digital screen, so one could watch Hop content while Mooning and Gooning

Hop - This may be your best video yet. It's such a great honest review of the product, with exceptional grounded comparisons to competitor product we can all relate to you, the match, and your own performance, and not only your own performance but in relation to the conditions between staff and main match. Please come shoot the TCGC multigun night match this December! We'd love to have you.

One thing I want to see with the Opsin is a team running it but using strobes, lights, and lasers in the 1100nm range; you'd be able to see their lasers but they wouldn't be able to see yours

I remember being a pog on duty, and since we only had one pvs-14 for the platoon, we left it mounted to the machine gun. Maybe digital night vision might be more useful as just a red dot supplement

Hop you have to keep doing this to yourself.

nice MRO

Congrats on growing your first beard hairs, bro!

Can't wait to see what you think of our DNV-9. Based on this.. the Gen 2 wiĺl outperform the opsin in every way.

Thanks Hop. I've been wondering about these units for nighttime recording.

At this rate, I might have to sell my flying car to buy digital nv once it finally drops in working condition.

Just can't beat the good ol reverse engineer Roswell crash retrieval tech 🛸

Detailed as always. I love that you intrinsically tear into the experience of everything you review

As always, I love the in depth and honest reviews. Keep it up Hop. Thanks for doing what you do.

It is such a joy to watch your videos unlike most other guys talking about their newest possession. You are doing a real review and not just reading the spec shet and mentioning the downsides of things. Thank you for that.

The video that everybody hesitating needed. Once you start using even the old Gen2, you're not going to look back at the digital ever again.

Glad you enjoyed the event, its an excellent facility and 1shepherd are incredible people. Hope to see you at more great matches, like Gunfighter Gauntlet.

Facts, Brass Lopfheil, Hop My sense of humor must be completely fucked if I find this hilarious.

The first person tunnel crawl...I really felt the arthritic knee popping.

I was waiting for this after seeing Brass Facts video where you decided to bring an Opsin in the MOGO2024 event.

20:21 I was personally attacked and I need my support pillow to cry into.

I was seriously considering buying an Opsin before I got my PVS-14 on sale. This is by far the most thorough review of the opsin and the only one that actually answered my questions about it. As cool as the tech is, I'm glad I went with gen 3.

Newest development Hop hit puberty this week. Dig that sick beard.

The best review of its kind. Been looking for 2 years trying to get an idea. I am now totally clear. The NV God has spoken.

the rest of the sensor likely goes to 'pixel binning' for better low-light performance

Love your videos Hop, thankyou

Once again proving that while digital may be the future, we are still very much in the present

Thank you Hop. I'm sure a lot of us have been waiting for an infield review.

Another episode in Hop is a masochist

I have waited so long for this!

You had such Nice weather for that first night. Jeez louise

You nailed the real issue, which is that there really aren't that many places to shoot under NODS.

Great presentation, thanks hop

My L3 tubes have no problem seeing my iPhone LiDAR

Thanks hop, great channel

I will say this low light first person shooting as a camera is by far the best I've seen.

There was a guy in my squad at Moons Out who ran the Opsin. He also had not very many good things to say about it.

I wanted to dip my toes into NV before pulling the trigger on analog tubes, ended up getting an Aurora sport for $300 used. It's fine for passive observation but insane to go with digital NV when you can get a decent used pvs14 for under 2k.

I waiting to get into NVGs until after 'Half-Life 3' comes out.

thanks for a honest review!

Your commentary on this one was great.

Hop, theres now another digital monocular called the ADNV G14P2, uses a custom sensor of similar size to the Opsins but with lower resolution and thus larger (and more sensitive) pixels. HYPE Militaria did a short review on its low light performance and latency, and it seems to fix most if not all of the issues of the Opsin. Latency, low light performance, and even decent-ish dynamic range. But most importantly they improved the battery life by simplifying the design and moving recording to an external unit. It has a roughly 15-16 hour battery life on a single 18650, compared to the Opsins of roughly the same amount of run time for 4 18650s.

Hop you don't have to keep doing this to yourself.

Hop keep yourself have doing to this dont you

A+ level rant. Please make more.

I was always interested to see non advertiser footage through one. it is far from perfect. but digital devices seems like they are heading the right way. i assume thermal fused devices would be easier to achieve AKA fully digital alternative to ENVG-B/PSQ-42

For an event called "moons out" there were surprisingly little to no occasions of mooning included into the video

this is why i love this channel. raw, pure honesty. no facks given. thanks.

I would love to see more NNVT gen2+ footage from you!

This dudes gotta be taking the piss...

Good review 👍

With the release of ADNV-G14P digital night vision is slowly climbing its way up. It still has worse sensitivity than OMNI 7/8 but it is really getting close. I hope they start driving the prices of tubes down.

Thanks Hop

I greatly appreciate that you used digital NV. I plan on running it along with a PDW at next year's event. I have this concept called Clandestine Carry I've been working on and basically it's easier to carry cheap digital NV around all the time rather than carry expensive tubes. Between this and some other videos I know what to work on so I'm not too handicapped...but I'm fully expecting A LOT of penalties lol. Cheers Hop!

Thanks for the video. I was thinking this because I live in Canada but end up with the nnvt and I chose right

The only reviews I'll watch even though I'll never buy NVGs

At 5:58 and other pieces of footage from the back alley, you can clearly see another fundamental flaw of digital night vision. Look for the pulsing blue tint that appears on various parts of the scene. It's coming from the infrared LEDs built into power meters as a wireless communication interface. They are pretty bright and screw with auto exposure/brightness of anything digital sensitive to IR. At some spots near apartment buildings or commercial buildings, it might look almost as bad as if there's a police car with its strobe lights on.

Don't have doing, yourself to keep this hop to you!

If they could get the prices low enough, I imagine these'd be really fun toys for someone who just wants to step out on their back porch and pull this out to look at the animals or what have you, but at the current price there is zero reason to not just get analog nods.

The battery pack is a great counterweight for helmet use, and is rechargeable. You can loop the cable around the side of your helmet if you had an appropriate helmet cover, so it isn't telegraphing above your head. Living outside the states, getting hands on any PVS's gen2-3 is hard and pricey. More so than the OPSIN.

The pisscam had me laughing because I expected it.

Watching everyone's videos from this event makes it look like a good time. Was it painfully obvious who has and has not used night vision?

Hop I'm glad you exist That is all

What a fun match. I was curious about the opsin, but man are the drawbacks not worth it. I'll stick with my gen 3 PVS-14

personally as a European, i can say there isnt much of a place for the opsin, we can get a jerry 14 for couple hundred euros more , and get the quality of real analog Nods. also props to the dude wearing PVS-21's, fucking madlad

I know it basically can't work this way for fairness/time, but I really wish you'd got a chance to run the same stages again with some cheap analogue NVGs to see how much it affected your performance. Maybe it even would've been better for the digital to be 2nd so you could argue you'd had 'practice' on top

Cool video as always, although I wheeze super hard at the fact you had the audacity to bring a MRO at a NV match.

Your name in the score sheet is first name Hop, last name Lopheil?

Yo Hop! If you dont like it, i'll hold onto it for you haha. I am a poor. Last weekend i ran an overnight ambush op event for the boys. i had my redlight headlamp lol

Hop, you and Ian “ The Masochist “ should have a separate category which gives points based on the age and condition of your equipment ( safety third) and specific requirements such as; at least one item has to be French and/or left handed , siege catapults,crossbows and fireworks that say “ lay on ground..light fuse and get away!” Self flagellation for extra credit.ect..You guys would rule!

I can't wait to buy nods and run around with my Anderson dissipator like I'm somebody

🇺🇸

Doing the lords work

KB had an attachment that recorded his analog NV and it came out nice.

Is this what Karl said is the future of NV?

One of the questions I've been thinking about how to ask, is I need a low light camera, is it worth investing in an analog tube and camera combo, or getting a sionyx aurora. I've watched your sionix footage for a while, and that's how I was leaning.

The beginning of somthing great.

i seriously think we are 1-2 "generations" from digital night vison actually becoming a viable product that gives traditional NVGs a serious fucking run for their money as an way to get a foot in the door to NVGs that are worth the money. i can't wait for the day to come.