Guide DN70M 2.0 Thermal & 4K Night Vision Binocular with 1,500m LRF

A thermal image tells you something warm is out there; telling a coyote from a neighbor's German shepherd takes the kind of picture a camera makes. The Guide DN70M 2.0, from Guide's DN Muo 2.0 series, puts both in one binocular: a 256 × 192 thermal channel that reads heat, a 3840 × 2160 camera behind a 70 mm F1.8 lens, and a laser rangefinder rated to 1,500 m (1,630 yd). Both channels are rated for detection to 1,300 m (1,400 yd), and an infrared fill light on the front gives the camera light on darker nights.

Key Features

• What the thermal channel does. A 256 × 192, 12 μm VOx sensor behind a 25 mm F1.0 lens reads heat, so it finds a warm animal with no light at all. It shows temperature differences, not colors, in seven palettes from 4.8x to 19.2x.
• What the camera does. The 3840 × 2160 sensor behind the 70 mm lens gives a camera's natural-looking picture, from 5.4x to 21.6x, in Day, Night and Low-light palettes. It works from visible light, so it needs daylight, moonlight or the fill light, and a blurry visible-light image can mean the scene is too dark for the camera.
• Five image modes. A short press of the function knob steps through thermal, visible and three fusion modes that blend the two into one image.
• Rangefinder, GPS and compass. The 1,500 m rangefinder works with GPS, a digital compass and a gyroscope, and its button can be reassigned.
• 4K recording with sound. Photos and video record at 3840 × 2160 with sound to 256 GB of storage, and the TargetIR app shows the live image over Wi-Fi, manages the files and installs firmware updates.
• Two batteries, swappable on the go. The built-in battery charges at 18 W, to 80% in an hour, and the replaceable 18650 swaps while the binocular runs; runtime is rated at 5 hours, with two 18650 cells in the box.
• Controls by feel. A precision focus wheel and customizable buttons you can tell apart by touch, and a proximity sensor that turns the screen off when you lower the binocular.
• Weather. Sealed to IP67 and rated to operate from -4°F to 122°F (-20°C to 50°C).

Ideal For

• Predator and hog hunters who scan, then identify. Find the heat in thermal, then check it on the camera or in a fusion mode.
• Day and night in one device. It is built for 24-hour observation: a 4K digital binocular that records by day, and a thermal one after dark.
• Choosing within Guide's binoculars. For more thermal detail at distance, the Guide TN650M Muo 2.0 puts a 640 × 512 sensor behind a 50 mm lens, so each thermal pixel covers half the angle (0.24 mrad against 0.48), and pairs it with a smaller 33 mm camera. The Guide TN650L has that thermal channel without a camera. The DN70M costs the least of the three.
• Cross-shopping ATN's Binox-6 Dual 256. Also a 256 × 192, 12 μm thermal with a 4K camera and a rangefinder, it is rated by ATN at ≤20 mK, 1,500 m of detection and about 8 hours against the DN70M's ≤30 mK, 1,300 m and 5 hours, and weighs 710 g to 914 g. The DN70M answers with a 70 mm F1.8 camera lens to ATN's 55 mm F/2.0, a rangefinder rated to 1,500 m against 1,000 m, 256 GB of storage against 64 GB, and a lower price.
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