# Night Vision

Image intensifier · P43

Night vision gathers the faint light in a dark scene, multiplies it thousands of times inside a tube, and shows it on a small glowing screen. Night Vision runs your picture through that tube, with its glow, its sparkle and its round eyepiece.

## Controls

### Tube

- **Phosphor** (Switch: Green / White). The screen's color. **Green** is the classic glow, **White** is the cool modern white.
- **Gen** (Select: Gen 1 / Gen 2 / Gen 3). The tube's generation. **Gen 1** bends and blurs toward the edges, with heavier grain and darker corners. **Gen 2** sits between. **Gen 3** is clean and sharp.
- **Shape** (Select: Full / Tube / Binocular). The **Full** frame, one round **Tube**, or two eyepieces for **Binocular**.

### Gain

- **Gain** (hero knob, 0 to 100, rests at 50). The hero. How hard the tube amplifies. Low is murky, high blows out and gets noisy.
- **Auto gain** (Switch: Off / On). Auto gain evens out the picture. Dark scenes come up, bright ones are held back. **Gain** still sets how bright it aims.
- **IR light** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 0). An infrared illuminator. A soft pool of light brightens one area.

### Noise

- **Scintillation** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 40). Bright sparkles that pop across the picture, more at high gain.
- **Grain** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 30). Fine noise over the picture, more at high gain.

### Glow

- **Halo** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 50). Bright lights flare with a glow around them.
- **Honeycomb** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 25). The honeycomb of the plate inside the tube.

### Settings

- **IR X** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 50). Where the illuminator points, across. Place it on the Aim screen.
- **IR Y** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 50). Where the illuminator points, up and down.

## Presets

- **Gen 1 Green**: Early tube: soft, bent edges, heavy sparkle, a round eyepiece.
- **Gen 3 White Phosphor**: Modern white phosphor: clean, sharp, a faint honeycomb.
- **Binocular Recon**: Two eyepieces, IR illuminator on, green phosphor.