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Posted: 2/20/2005 8:38:15 PM EDT
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Quick question - I picked up a Bushnell Holosight, and I really like it so far.. but the circle around the dot seems quite "fuzzy" for lack of a better term. The center dot is quite crisp, however. Is this normal? Edited title. ETA - basically, it's like there are "fuzzies" around the whole thing. It looks nowhere near as crisp as some of the EOTech pictures i've seen. Is this a normal Bushnell Holosight thing, or did I get a bad one or something? |
It's a Fargate, from the makers of Findependence Day. Well, I wear glasses (nearsighted). Without my glasses, all it is is a 65 MOA red blur. So I guess they weren't kidding when they said it's projected 50 yards away. I think the biggest problem is that I haven't had it outside at the range in daylight yet, I've just been messing around with it in the apartment, and that it's too bright. Pointing it out the window today caused the reticle to a) wash out so I had to turn it up and b) become quite crisper. |
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I've been searching on advice on how to best use the sight, and most agree it needs to be turned down in intensity to get the best image. My contacts don't do astigmatism, so the center dot looks like a "/" rather than a ".". My wife has these "toric" soft lenses that are weighted so they sit on the cornea the same way each time and correct the astigmatism. Next eye appt. I'm doing it for sure. My wife made me stop watching Hunger Force in front of the kids... 
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The blurriness is not because it is too bright- like what would happen with an aimpoint or red dot sight. You MUST keep both eyes open and focus on your target. Forget that it's on your rifle and you are looking through it. It has to be blurry in order for your eye to see it when you focus at a distant object, obviously much farther than the projected image of the ring. This thing works just like the Apache Pilot's helmet and 20mm gun work. He's got a lens that drops down in front of his eye where the hologram is reflected onto. A computer tracks his head movement and moves the gun accordingly. When you use the EOTech correctly, you are getting the same effect, except now the sight and gun are connected physically. This eliminates the need for the computer to do any work and it is not needed. It's the same thing as the HUDs on fighter jets. The pilot doesn't look at the glass and focus on the info projected onto it. He looks out ahead and sees the HUD and everything in the distance at the same time. getting that astigmatism fixed will work wonders, but it won't get rid of the blur. |
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