KINSEI Thermal Imaging Monocular, Thermal Monocular Night Vision Telescope, 10mm Focal Lens 256x192(50HZ) Effective Pixels Heat Vision Goggles Optic Spotting Scope Camera for Night Hunting-Grey

The media could not be loaded. [This review is for the TPC-K20-G10]Everything is working as advertised - in fact I would say that I’m more impressed with the unit than I expected to be. This monocular compares favorably to the other 256px models in the same price range (the competitor is $100+ more expensive depending on the day).I don’t really want to stop using it ever since I’ve taken it out of the box, it’s like having a superpower! I’ve used plenty of thermals before including clip on and integrated nv/thermal devices, but wanted a simple scouting camera for personal use and managed to catch this one during a sale. It had zero reviews at the time that I bought it but it claims to have a two year warranty and Amazon is pretty good about returns, so I took the risk.So far I’ve tested it at 50ft (15m) indoors, but I’ll update my review once I’ve tested it out to the advertised range of 416 meters and beyond. It comes with, but doesn’t advertise this much in its product description, a laser rangefinder of some sort. From reading the manual it seems to work by measuring a target from top to bottom (you input whether that is a small, medium, large animal, or a person) and it gauges distance using that info. I’m not sure if that’s legitimately more simple/cheap to make than the sort of laser rangefinders hunters or golfers use or not, and haven’t tested this feature yet. Since it wasn’t advertised I didn’t take it into consideration when I bought the product, if it works as advertised it will simply be a nice bonus for me.The battery hasn’t needed a charge yet, it came at 2/3rds and hasn’t dropped down to 1/3rd yet after two hours of walking and occasionally recording, so I expect it does hold up to their claim of ~9 hours on a charge.It’s a lot of fun to walk around the house and look backwards to see your footsteps heat imprints, or to look at electronics to see if they’ve been turned off recently (or if they even have an ambient heat signature despite being off for hours and hours - spooky!). Handprints also leave a signature for a bit after using an item, so I could see this being really handy for not only hunting and hiking but police work. If you’re a handyman, this thing will show you every heat leak with impeccable detail, and now I’m able to confirm what I only previously suspected about my home repair contractors shoddy work. Finding hot water and air pipes and differentiating them is a breeze, of course.If you’re familiar with thermals you know that sometimes it does that thing where it clicks and pauses the displayed image for a second, regardless of price or quality (except maybe the unobtainable stuff that militaries use). This unit does that *rarely*, and it seems to mostly be at very close range, like looking at your own feet or closer. Observing things further away seems to trigger it less.This unit is mountable to a j-arm, and unlike most digital night vision it is actually plausible to use with a helmet. It has a nice rubber eyecup, and if you have a mounting system that doesn’t wiggle around much you can absolutely get this locked in where you want it. It’d probably be ideal in low light situations where your other eye can still see some details in wide FOV, but it does also have those colorful modes that do a pretty good job of illuminating obstacles as separate entities if you absolutely needed to use it in pitch black. It helps a lot to familiarize yourself with practice if you anticipate using it this way, but ideally you’d probably have this to compliment Gen 3+ NV for things like that. BUT if you want to get a skullcrusher and pretend you’re the Predator, yeah it’ll totally work for that.I’m having a fantastic time with this unit and like I said I’ll update it again, probably with a video, once I’ve tried to push it to the limits at which it can detect heat.Now that I’ve seen what this unit is capable of I’d love to compare it with the other products in their lineup!

The media could not be loaded. I took this to my local lake to test out the range and for a budget thermal it was actually quite surprising. In one of the furthest photos of the houses across the lake you could still make out vehicles and houses and that's at 900 meters, albeit The images are hard to see at that range. Everything else is between 100 and 350 meters and it does pretty well at that distance for a budget thermal. I am happy with my purchase. I'll try and update this when I get more wildlife photos and videos. Eventually I'm going to get the high-end model TPC K60 Y25 when it comes back in stock. I will compare the two on the next review.

Does its job. 75 yards you can tell what type Animal your seeing. Good for pig hunting so you don't have to constantly look down your rifle thermal.

The image quality on this is not bad. I don't have military experience or really anything other than what I've seen on television to compare this to, but it looks pretty impressive.Here is where I have issues and why I'm returning mine...Kinsei has ZERO internet presence other than the listings here on Amazon. If you have questions or need service, you're out of luck as there's no contact email address. The manual says to package the scope and send it to a service center if you have issues, but there's no address for a service center. The web link for firmware upgrades is a Google Drive link which is OK, but the link they provide here and in their manual is the link you use to open YOUR OWN Google Drive, not theirs.I believe the manual says it comes with a two-year warranty. That sounds good but where are you going to send it or who are you going to contact for warranty repair? Amazon washes their hands after 30 days.If you purchase this, my suggestion is to spend the $99 or whatever it is for the Amazon extended product warranty. Otherwise, you may have an expensive paperweight if this stops working after the 30-day return window closes.

Good to see something out there but if it’s farther than 50 yards and smaller than a cow good luck telling what it is because clarity is not good farther away pretty easy to use

Similar to the thermal devices I used while in the army, highly recommend this monocular device. Plan on using mine for hunting to scan wood lines.

First thermal Very cool. But pitch dark you can tell the lighting strains your eye

This is a neat product. I can see mice in the field at night. It's also helpful in identifying thermal leaks (where the insulation is bad... Ect) in the house. The camera resolution is low for me, but it does the job well. The display resolution is excellent. I like the different modes it has for interpreting the picture. Good product.