Oneleaf NV500 Day/Night Scope - Extremely Thorough Review (Video inside)

[AirShootist]

I'm kicking off your Monday morning with the single most detailed Oneleaf Technology NV500 scope review on the entire internet! Join me as I take you through every feature of this scope, day shooting, dusk shooting, and of course night shooting - with an appearance by one of the biggest bucks I've ever seen in my life!

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[weevil]

outstanding review!

 

[Peashooter]

Just received mine like 1.5 hour ago, 0 experience with this but look and feel good, eager to go shooting tomorrow

Just checked, no firmware out for this yet so i am on V.001

Nice review M8.

My gripes so far having not shot it,,,,, yes i got some.
1: the focus wheel are pretty hard to turn, but it might become loose with time, also a waterproofing thing.
2: the Zoom clicks, i have mine on 1.0 ( default ) but it feel like clicking the wheel it dont always register, so going from one end of the zoom to the other in my feel it take a bit too many clicks.
3: With no LRF like i have if you put the light there, focus will be harder to reach

A little tech stuff.

The 4K Sony starvis 2 sensor IMX 678 is just the 8 megapixel you need to do 4K, so photo in larger resolutions are extrapolated.

 

[Peashooter]

@AirShootist the level change of the light you do not have to OFF it in between, just soft press and you can cycle thru power levels.

Findings today.

Shooting paper in the dark -2 exposure needed.

Trying to select ISO range manual, it seem no matter what you try it go to the highest one, even ISO 100 which is pretty low just = a white screen in the daytime

zoom click wheel for sure need revamping if you ask me, wayyyy too many clicks to go from 0 to MAX zoom


For sure people used to a phone camera, will be sorely disappointed here, CUZ it is all manual baby you for sure want to experiment and familiarize you with your NV500 scope

PS. i have told oneleaf how they can make like 20 - 30X - more optical zoom cameras, and it can even have autofocus too ASO, but it will only work on low recoil weapons CUZ the core will not be able to handle high G loads.

Had good fun tonight, even if no rats turned up, but the feed site have been disturbed and moved a little lately.

 

[Clive]

Weird that theres no forums or chit chatting about this one. I decided to sell my dnt zulus 5-20x and get this nv500. Seems like the features are better and its a bit more versatile. There seems to be more chit chatting baout the zulus though. Even 3d prints with stl files available. Not sure if nv500 has anything for improvements like a focus handle.

 

[Peashooter]

More shots under the belt with the NV500 now.
I am thinking on focus handle myself, CUZ with IR torch there and no LRF, well you are sort of forced to focus with the R hand, which for me is also loading hand and trigger hand.

It could do with some updates.

1: it seem very keen to jump strait to the highest ISO range and stay there, i set a manual ISO 800 yesterday, using ambient IR light from a CCTV camera to shoot a couple of mice.

Also in daytime mode, you can not choose ISO value, if you try no matter what you select it will be ISO3200 and all you get is a white overexposed screen.
but at least in B&W night mode ISO work as it should.

2: IMO the image quality look a bit generic, you also see this often in little dashcam brands that do not have the manpower to really dial on things.
Even worse even big DC brands, modders some times swoop in and mod firmware giving even better results.
Like for instance i am not sure if 3DNR are on in the NV500

I will try to do a compare video VS a cheap dashcam with same starvis 2 sensor, though this will be skewed by not at all same lens.

I am looking forward to a bigger optical zoom lens, also as they can do this, how about a 2 X tele converter like you can use on SLR cameras doubling your lens zoom.
4X zoom are fine shooting near things, but utterly worthless shooting papers 125 yards away.
Sure you can see impacts on splatter burst targets, but the holes beside in the cardboard backing you do not see, and shooting 2" targets with a .177, well you do miss now and then, knowing / seeing where is nice to know.