Board Thread:Wiki news and announcements/@comment-30049823-20200107032856/@comment-27306930-20200107235855

Sorry, I need to correct my previous post. I screwed up. There's something really weird going on with the AA batteries in my scope, and apparently it wasn't functioning properly. My apologies.

I stuffed a brand new set of batteries in it and retested. Stepping through the zoom settings, it has 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 3x, 4x, and 5x zoom in both Day and Night modes. Plus, I'm not getting any lag. So maybe there are two variants, or possibly two firmware versions. I dunno.

But frankly I'm not sure why it has a Day Mode either. It does display in color when it's in Day mode, but the resolution is quite grainy and it uses digital zoom. It doesn't actually magnify the picture, it just enlarges it. And you can actually see the individual pixels in the display. If I had to guess, it's probably only 150 DPI. Functionally it's no better than the naked eye when you take the poor resolution into account.

Night mode is pretty cool though. I've taken it outside and watched raccoons and deer in the pitch black. That being said, I'm not often in Nerf battles in the dead of night. So yeah 🙄

According to the Zoom Scope wiki page, it's "by far the most expensive Nerf attachment". Pffft, I'm not so sure about that. I bought mine new for $18, and Rskm got his for just 3 bucks 😜